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Cold War Propaganda Quiz

Multiple Choice: (1 Point each)
1. Propaganda during the Cold War used slogans such as better dead than
Red! to:
A. Make individual support Communism
B. Protest the expansion of Communism
C. Support Anti-Communist efforts.
D. All of the above.

2. The 1950s is a decade of prosperity after WWII but it is also known as the
decade of:
A. Communist support
B. The Red Scare
C. The Movie Blacklisting
D. None of the above

3. The Iron Curtain would contain which part of Europe:

A. Western
B. Southern
C. Eastern
D. Northern

4. The Warsaw pact was an alliance between the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain
countries in response to which Alliance:
A. NATO
B. USJSA
C. WETA
D. NAWETA

5. During the Cold War the acronym MAD stood for:

A. Mutually Assured Destruction
B. Mutually Assured Distraction
C. Mutual Agreement against Destruction
D. None of the above

Matching (1 Point each)

6. _____ A system of government by the people in which the supreme power is
vested in the people and exercised directly by them.

7. _____ The military, political, and ideological barrier established between the
Soviet Union and Western Europe.
 8. _____ A political theory advocating a society in which the government owns
everything and individuals are paid according to their abilities and needs.

9. _____ The principle that the U.S. should give support to countries or peoples
threatened by the Soviet Union or the rise of communism.

10. _____ Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote

or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

A. Communism B. Democracy C. Propaganda D. Iron Curtain E. Truman

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