Quiz practice
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Julius Rosenberg | Found guilty of spying for the Soviet Union and sent to the electric chair in 1953.
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| Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin that led communist "witch hunts" in the government and military.
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| Mao Zedong | Communist leader of the People's Republic of China
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| Fidel Castro | became dictator of Cuba after the 1959 revolution.
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| Douglas MacArthur | General of U.S. troops in Korea; forced to resign when he wanted to expand the war into China.
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Hero of WWII, became president in the 50's.
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| Nikita Krushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin died.
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| Brinkmanship | Ike's policy of threatening to go to war to combat the spread of communism.
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| McCarthyism | Destroying reputations by making accusations without evidence.
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| Space Race | Competition between the two world superpowers to develop satellites and rockets.
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| U-2 incident | Ruined efforts to ease Cold War tensions
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| 38th parallel | The result of the Korean War was Korea remained split at the:
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| Fear of drawing the Soviet Union into war | Reason Truman did not want to bomb China during the Korean War.
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| Soviet Union exploded an atom bomb. | What factor intensified the American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb?
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