Cold War Quiz 8.2 v.2025

The cause of the Korean War was

• the free South attacked the Communist North

• the Communist North attacked the free South

• the Chinese attacked South Korea

• the United Nations attacked the Communist North

Before and after the Korean War, and to this day, Korea is divided at

• the Yellow River

• the 38th Parallel

• the Atlas Mountains

• the 17th Parallel

The new leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin was

• Vladimir Lenin

• Boris Yeltsin

• Nikita Kruschev

• Chancellor Palpatain

The build up of nuclear weapons by the Soviets and United States during the 1950's is know as

• the Zero Option

• the Arms Race

• the Bomb Battle

• the Nuclear Shift

The Soviet communist military alliance created in 1955 headquartered in Poland was called

• the Communist League

• the Iron Curtain

• the Moscow Alliance

• the Warsaw Pact

The Soviet Union gained the nuclear bomb due to

• spies in the U.S. providing critical information on how to build one.

• Soviet scientists finally figuring out how to split the atom on their own..

• an alliance with Communist China that already had it.

• using shared U.S. technology from the end of WWII.

The 1957 US policy that warned the Soviet Union to stay out of Middle East affairs was called the

• Monroe Doctrine

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Platt Amendment

• Dawes Plan

The belief that if one country in a region falls to communism, others around it will too, was known as

• the Doctrine of Infection

• the Communist Chain

• the Iron Curtain

• the Domino theory

The Dr. Seuss story about the Cold War that was seen as "too scary" for children and was banned from many libraries in the U.S. was

• the Butter Battle

• the Sneeches

• Horton Hears a Boom

• Yurtle the Turtle

The name of the U.S. policy to stop the spread of Communism was also commonly called ____________ policy.

• isolation

• iron curtain

• containment

• restriction