Events of the Cold War

The Cold War was fought between the United States and

• China
• France
• Soviet Union
• Germany

The Cold War
was a war of
ideas between 

• Communism and Fascism
• Communism and Totalitarianism
• Democracy and Fascism 
• Communism and Democracy

The main goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War was to

• Spread Communism
• Make friends with the United States
• Contain Communism 
• Take over the world

The Cold War began after ______ ended. 

• the Korean War 
• the Vietnam War
• World War I 
• World War II

The Cold War was

• an actual war which was fought in the Soviet Union
• an actual war which was fought in the United States
• a term used to describe the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States
• a term used to describe the struggle between the Russian farmers and the cold weather.

 The single most important reason the U.S. engaged in the Cold War was to 

•  prevent the communist takeover of East Berlin
• stop the spread of terrorism
•  limit the development of nuclear weapons
• stop the spread of communism

The United States
and the Soviet Union
came closest to nuclear war during the 

• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Space Race

During the Cold War,
all of these were split
into communist
and non-communist countries except

• Soviet Union
• Korea
• Germany
• Vietnam

Until 1989,
 the Berlin Wall separated

• North and South Korea 
• North and South Vietnam
• East and West Germany
• United States and the Soviet Union

Who was NOT
a United States President during
the Cold War? 

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Harry S.Truman
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• John F. Kennedy