Unit 5 - Topic 2 (Cold War) Post Assessment

A cause of the events depicted in this cartoon was...

• Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Berlin Blockade and airlift

• devastation of World War II in Europe

• development of the atomic bomb

Which United States effort is the Soviet Union responding to in this cartoon?

• a commitment to rebuild the League of Nations

• a plan to join with other nations to reduce military spending

• an effort to improve United States–Soviet relations

• an attempt to stabilize the economy of Western Europe

Based on this document, which statement best describes the illustrator’s perspective?

• The United States should ignore the need for European recovery

• USSR and United States are allies in the Cold War

• The Soviet Union is actively opposed to the Marshall Plan

• Stalin supports the Marshall Plan

A historian would find Document 1 most useful for...

• Studying the impact of the Korean War on North Korea

• Studying the potential for Korean unification

• Studying the number of American deaths in the Korean War

• Studying American military presence in South Korea

Which of the following claims is best supported by documents A and B?

• The Korean war did not impact the size of the American military

• The Korean War caused an expansion of American military forces

• The Korean War caused a reduction in the size of American military forces

• The Korean War forced World War II veterans to go back into service

Based on this document, which statement best describes the speaker’s point of view?

• The containment of communism depends on the United States continued involvement in Vietnam

• The United States can safely withdraw troops from the Vietnam War, and win the Cold War as a result

• The United States should withdraw from Vietnam because the domination of communism in the world is inevitable

• Communists can be contained to Vietnam, allowing the United States to win the Cold War

Which idea is described in this passage?

• Appeasement

• Domino theory

• Isolationism

• Isolationism

The events described in the document above are most closely related to...

• President Eisenhower’s decisions during the Korean War

• The United States policy of containment during the Cold War

• The Vietnam War anti draft protests and peace rallies

• The development of the Space Race between the US and USSR

Based on the document above, what was the United States’ response to the USSR launching Sputnik?

• Decreasing the number of astronauts trained by the United States to go into space

• Cutting science education in schools across America and defunding science curriculum development

• Increased funding for science education and science related research

• Expanding the American military presence in the Soviet Union to win the Cold War

Which of the events below was most likely the result of the historical developments described in the document above?

• The United States lost the Cold War to the Soviet Union

• The NDEA was not a success in the 1960s

• The United States launched the Apollo space mission

• Americans voted for President Truman in 1958