COLD WAR CFA #6

Which action was a direct response of the United States to growing communist threats in Greece and Turkey in the years following the Second World War?

Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine.

What prompted the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to target the "Hollywood Ten"?

Fear of communist infiltration within the American entertainment industry.

Which objective of American foreign policy in 1951 led to a United Nations military intervention in the Korean peninsula?

Limit the spread of communism.

Which military alliance of North American and Western European nations pledged in 1949 that all member nations would come to the aid of any member attacked by an outside enemy?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Which U.S. response to Soviet aggression is reflected in the political cartoon?

The U.S. Central Intelligence agency coordinated an invasion of Cuba to remove Soviet missiles.

Which statement correctly completes this time line?

The United States and Great Britain airlift supplies to West Berlin.

Which of the following is most characteristic of the Cold War?

The growth of nuclear arsenals in the United States and the Soviet Union.

During the 1950s the federal government funded educational initiatives in math and science in response to what?

The successful launch of the first artificial satellite.

How did the end of the Second World War influence the pattern of population growth in the United States?

The sudden influx of returning soldiers caused a boom in birth rates.

Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950s?

U.S. citizens were arrested for being suspected communists.