Cold War Knowledge Check

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Proxy Wars

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(b) Arms Race

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(c) Space Race

• Nuclear Weapons

• 38th Parallel

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Brinkmanship

• Apollo 11

• Sputnik

• NASA

• M.A.D.

Match the following

• Soviet launch of Sputnik

• widespread fear of Communism spreading into the U.S.

• Containment

• war that resulted in the country being divided at the 38th parallel

• McCarthyism

• U.S. foreign policy that aimed to stop the spread of Communism

• Korean War

• event that sparked the start of the Space Race

• Red Scare

• practice of publicizing accusations of suspected Communist without evidence

Match the following

• NATO

• Closest the world came to nuclear war; USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, leading to a U.S. naval blockade.

• Berlin Blockade & Airlift

• Soviet blockade of West Berlin countered by U.S. and British airlift of supplies.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• term used to describe the division between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.

• Iron Curtain

• Military alliances formed by the U.S. and Western allies

• Domino Theory

• Belief that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.

What was the main goal of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War?

• Containment of Communism

• Containment of Nazi forces

• Creating an international peacekeeping organization

• Promoting Communism throughout the World

How did the U.S. respond to the spread of communism in Europe? (choose all that apply)

• Creation of NATO

• Implementing the Truman Doctrine

• Implementing the Marshall Plan

• Creating the Iron Curtain

How did the Cold War impact domestic policies in the U.S.? (Choose all that apply)

• McCarthyism increased fear of Communism in the U.S.

• Increased U.S. defense spending

• Prevented freedom of speech to avoid a nuclear attack

• invested in science education due to the Space Race