1. An increase in immigration to Minnesota resulted in large part from?

a. tighter immigration laws

b. a rise in global conflict

c. and end to refugee status

d. the Truman Doctrine

2. The Cold War most directly impacted Minnesotans through

a. the Korean and Vietnam wars

b. the Marshall Plan

c. the United Nations

d. the space race

3. The Cold War was not an actual war because

a. no one fought in any conflicts

b. the arms race had ended

c. it took place on television

d. the two key nations did not fight each other directly

1) B

2) D

3) C

Explanation:

1) The correct answer is a rise in global conflict, since Minnesota's first immigrants arrived from Europe. Minnesota's foreign-born population includes a large number of refugees who have settled in the state. Some examples of this are:

Hmong refugees began arriving in Minnesota (in the mid-1970s) when the country of Laos was taken over by communist powers. Somali refugees began coming to Minnesota in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Somali government resulted in extreme violence.

2) The correct answer is the space race because of the space exploration which served as another cause of the Cold War competition. In 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth's orbit. It came as a non pleasant surprise to most Americans, since they were looking forward to taking it as their next frontier.

3) The cold War was not an actual war because the two key nations did not fight each other directly. These two countries were The United States and the Soviet Union. Even though there was fighting, it did not occur directly between these two.