Cold War Unit Review

Cold War Unit Review

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These are examples of:

• Action Alerts

• Cold War Crises

• Proxy Wars

• Red Zones

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What do the light beige-colored countries represent?

• NATO Allies

• Communist Partners

• Non-Alignment

• Sphere of Influence

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Which war is considered the beginning of the Cold War?

• The Soviet-Afghan War

• WW2

• The Vietnam War

• The Korean War

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What is it called when two powers fight in a third place and don't directly fight?

• Third Party War

• Other Battle

• Proxy War

• Crisis

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How did the US respond to the Soviet space competition?

• Funded a ton of math and science education

• Ignored it

• Immediately launched a rocket to the moon

• invested in sports supremacy

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What is M.A.D.?

• Manageably Dangerous Deals: accepting some Cold War risks

• Mostly Arbitrary Doom; the idea that the world would end at some point no matter what

• Minimally Addressed Distress: barely paying attention to fear

• Mutually Assured Destruction; the ever present threat of nuclear war

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What was the central, ideological conflict of the Cold War?

• Freedom vs. Equality

• Justice vs. Ruthlessness

• Democracy vs. Republicanism

• Quantity vs. Quality

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what is the message of this political cartoon?

• Gorbachev saved the USSR

• Gorbachev broke the USSR

• Gorbachev created the USSR

• Gorbachev led the USSR

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Which Western European country was split up at the beginning of the Cold War before NATO was established?

• Spain

• Germany

• France

• Italy

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What is containment?

• The idea of keeping communism from spreading beyond the USSR and China

• The plan to prevent radiation from spreading

• The plan to invade South Korea

• The crisis in Egypt over the Suez Canal

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Mutual protection between Communist satellite states was known as the...

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Containment

• Mutually Assured Destruction

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Which US president is associated with the doctrine of containment?

• Harry Truman

• Ronald Reagan

• John. F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

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Which US president is associated with the Domino Theory?

• John F. Kennedy

• Jimmy Carter

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Ronald Reagan

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A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside the U.S. government and society in the years following World War II was:

• KGB

• CIA

• HUAC

• NATO

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The invisible dividing line between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic/Capitalist Western Europe

• Warsaw Pact

• 38th Parallel

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

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The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control

• Warsaw Pact

• Domino Effect

• Containment

• Red Scare

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Who aided the North Koreans in their fight to control the entire Korean Peninsula?

• China and the Soviet Union

• China and Japan

• US and South Korea

• Soviet Union and South Korea

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The Red Scare was...

• The fear of Communism in America

• A terrible illness that swept through Europe after WWII

• The nickname for fallout from a nuclear attack

• The attempt by the Soviet Union to cut off West Berlin

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Which three numbers represent Communist countries during the Cold War?

• All of them

• 4

• 4 and 3

• 4, 3 and 2.

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Which sentence is correct?

• The arms race was between Germany and the US to see who could be the first to win WWII.

• The arms race was between the US and the Soviet Union to see who could build up the most powerful weapons the fastest.

• The Chinese communists fled to the island of Taiwan after the Chinese civil war.

• The space race involved two powerful ships in a race to the moon.

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What was formed to mutually defend Western Europe?

• United Nations

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• Warsaw Pact

• All of the Above

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Which event brought the US & USSR to the brink of nuclear war?

• Bay of Pigs

• Berlin Wall

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• None of the Above

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To prevent the spread of communism by boosting European economies the US provided goods and $$$ through what???

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• None of the Above

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What impact did the Cold War have on the world??

• Spread Communism

• Isolated USSR

• Forced All Nations to choose a side

• Divided the world between countries aligned with USA or USSR, or to be "non-aligned" but still affected

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When did the Cold War end?

• When the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba.

• When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

• When the Soviet Union supported building the Berlin Wall.

• When South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam.

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Three of the following events happened after the U.S. pulled all troops from Vietnam. Which one did not happen?

• North and South Vietnam were united under a democratic government.

• South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam.

• North and South Vietnam were united under a communist government.

• North and South Vietnam continued to fight.

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The United States sent troops to help South Vietnam

• stop segregation

• stop communism

• stop child labor

• stop slavery

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When North and South Korea ended the Korean War, where did they agree would be the border?

• 25th Longitude

• Korean Blvd

• 38th Parallel

• Truman Avenue

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The Space Race was between

• Germany and the USSR

• Vietnam and China

• the USA and the USSR

• United States and Cuba

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Which term describes the post-World War 2 era known for spreading the fear that "communist spies" were trying to overthrow the government?

• Imperialism

• McCarthyism

• Popularity

• Socialism

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Gorbachev introduced this, which means restructuring

• glasnost

• perestroika

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Gorbachev introduced this, which means openness

• glasnost

• perestroika

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Glasnost was about connecting to and being open to the west

• true

• false

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Perestroika was about competing with the west to be "first" in science and technology

• true

• false

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superpowers used their assets and agencies to influence the political development of smaller countries.

• true

• false

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proxy wars and foreign meddling were NOT to blame for devastating effects for the locals, or bringing to power leaders who were undemocratic, dictatorial, brutal, and corrupt.

• true

• false

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is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict.

• false

• true

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COMECON is the association of communist economies

• false

• true

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Comintern is the international coalition to prevent international communist communications

• true

• false

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This organization was created to prevent communism from gaining ground in SE Asia, and trying to control its resources.

• ACORN

• SEATO

• PROMO

• YOLO

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The Geneva Convention of 1954 was meant to restabilize South East Asia after this colony was ended.

• Soviet Thailand

• British India

• French Indochina

• West Indies

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This identified Stalin as a villain:

• The East Berlin Doctrine

• Kruschchev's Secret Speech

• Ho Chi MInh's Law of North Vietnam

• JFK's Bay of Pigs Speech

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Which 3 of these were Cold War Crises?

• Berlin Wall Crisis

• Hungarian Uprising

• Canada Crisis

• Suez Crisis

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Reagan started a program called what, to establish nuclear capacity in space?

• Fast Track

• Missile Shock

• Space Craft

• Star Wars

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the practice of denying employment to anyone, but especially entertainment industry professionals believed to be or to have been Communists or sympathizers...not just actors, but screenwriters, directors, & musicians.

• blackballing

• blacktracking

• blacklisting

• blacktopping

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The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime

• true

• false

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Under Truman, these were to be set up in every part of the federal government. Using lists of “totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive” organizations

• loyalty boards

• check lists

• interrogation crews

• blacklist boards

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J Edgar Hoover was the head of what organization, that sought to undermine any and all communist behaviors in the USA, or falsely accuse civil rights leaders to doing so:

• CIA

• FBI

• NSA

• NASA

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This US organization facilitated covert operations all over the world during the Cold War. Many of these were specifically carried out in order to suppress communism, but others suppressed anything that would prevent US interests.

• CIA

• FBI

• NSA

• NASA

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All of these were considered WHAT, during the Cold War: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua

• crises

• barometers

• hotspots

• signifiers

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This US president is associated with "Massive Retaliation" during the Cold War

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

• Johnson

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This US president is associated with the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps during the Cold War:

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Nixon

• Reagan

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This US president is associated with major increases in US involvement in the VIetnam War including a major bombing campaign in Laos during the Cold War:

• Eisenhower

• Carter

• Kennedy

• Nixon

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This US president is associated with humanitarian aid and trying to improve relations with foreign countries during the Cold War:

• Johnson

• Truman

• Carter

• Reagan

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This US president is associated with focusing mostly on domestic civil rights during the Cold War:

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Truman

• Carter

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A post-Cold War perspective on the Cold War is that the Soviet Union's aggression, starting with Stalin, was to blame.

• true

• false

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A revisionist view of the Cold War is that the US and the USSR were both to blame, and the US was unnecessarily belligerent and hostile.

• true

• false

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An orthodox view of the Cold War is that neither superpower was wholly or mostly responsible but that complex factors were at play.

• true

• false

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an orthodox perspective on the Cold War was that ultimately it was about competing ideologies and ideas about security that were in conflict.

• true

• false