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This document contains a Cold War test with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and essay questions. It tests knowledge about key events, leaders, policies, and conflicts during the Cold War era including the Truman Doctrine, Korean War, launch of Sputnik, Cuban Missile Crisis, and containment policy under Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Students must answer 5 of 7 multiple choice questions, 5 of 7 fill-in-the-blank questions, and 2 of 3 short answer questions, choosing 1 of 2 essay prompts.

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Cold War Test

This document contains a Cold War test with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and essay questions. It tests knowledge about key events, leaders, policies, and conflicts during the Cold War era including the Truman Doctrine, Korean War, launch of Sputnik, Cuban Missile Crisis, and containment policy under Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Students must answer 5 of 7 multiple choice questions, 5 of 7 fill-in-the-blank questions, and 2 of 3 short answer questions, choosing 1 of 2 essay prompts.

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Cold War Test

Answer 5 out of 7 Multiple Choice Questions, if more than 5 are answered,


only the first 5 will be counted (5 points each).
1. The Truman Doctrine ________
a. Promised US aid to countries threatened by Communist
expansion
b. Declared war on the USSR
c. Demanded the USSR leave Cuba
d. Gave President Truman unrestricted power to fight Communism
2. General chosen by President Truman to lead US forces in Korea
a. Smith
b. Grant
c. Patton
d. MacArthur
3. Leader of the Soviet Union in 1959 after the death of Josef Stalin
a. Vladimir Lenin
b. Nikita Khrushchev
c. Vladimir Putin
d. Ivan Drago
4. Name of Reagans proposed weapons system that would destroy Soviet
missiles from space
a. Red Fox
b. Iron Curtain
c. Star Wars
d. Rolling Thunder
5. This Eastern European Nation never became a Soviet satellite nation
a. Bulgaria
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Romania
d. Yugoslavia
6. Who was the President of the United States during the Cuban Missile
Crisis?
a. Dwight Eisenhower
b. Harry Truman
c. John F. Kennedy
d. Ronald Reagan
7. The Bay of Pigs was a US funded invasion of what country?
a. Cuba
b. Romania
c. Poland
d. USSR
Answer 5 out of 7 fill in the blank questions (5 points each).

1. _______ warfare uses hit and run tactics, was famously used by the
Vietcong in the Vietnam War.
2. _______ was the worlds first artificial satellite launched into space by
the USSR.
3. _______ led a communist revolution in Cuba and was the leader of the
country during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
4. _______ was an alliance formed between the United States and Western
European allies to help fight the spread of Communism.
5. _________________ were US citizens sentenced to death for sharing
atomic bomb secrets with the USSR.
6. A country that is dominated politically and economically by another
nation is known as a ________
7. ________ is the name of the wall that separated the democratic
western European nations from the communist eastern European
nations
Answer 2 out 3 Short answer questions. Answers should be in complete
sentences and contain specific evidence to back up your answer (12.5 points
each)
1. What was the United States reasoning for passing the Truman
Doctrine?

2. What was the result of the Bay of Pigs and how did the invasion make
the US look?

3. What was the compromise between the US and the Soviet Union after
the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Essay Question: Pick 1 out of 2 Questions to answer. Essay should be 3 5


paragraphs in length and use specific evidence from the textbook and inclass lessons (25 points).
1. What impacts did the Korean War have on American Foreign Policy?

2. How did George Kennans containment doctrine change during the


Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations? Which president
was the most successful in containing Communism?

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