11.5: Unit 11 Quiz Review

Unit 11 Quiz Review

Lesson 11.5

Multiple Choice

Bellringer: Which of the following was NOT one of Cuba's accomplishments under Fidel Castro?

• Earning a 99% literacy rate in the 1950s

• Sending the first woman to space in 1963

• Creating the Meningitis-B vaccine in 1985

Lesson Overview

Learners can:

• review key information about the Cold War from the 1940s through the 1960s

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Vocabulary:
Berlin Airlift, Berlin Wall, Cold War, command economy, containment, de-Stalinization, domino theory, East German Uprising of 1953, Eastern Bloc, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Marshall Plan, NATO, Nikita Khrushchev, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Poland Workers’ Strike of 1956, Prague Spring, satellite states, Truman Doctrine, Warsaw Pact, Western Bloc

Essay Question

​You can find ALL this information in Lessons:

• 11.1--The Cold War Begins

• 11.2--Europe Divided

• 11.3--Arms Race and Space Race

Multiple Choice

The creation of the Warsaw Pact was a response to which event?

• the spread of protests and strikes in Poland and Hungary

• the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• the division of Germany into four occupied zones

Multiple Choice

Which of the following actions represents the characteristics of a command economy?

• selling public land to private buyers

• removing health regulations on food production

• combining private farms into larger, government-owned farms

Multiple Choice

Which idea contributed to Truman’s declaration of the Truman Doctrine?

• domino theory

• laissez-faire

• utopian socialism

Multiple Select

Which situations contributed to tension between Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin around the end of World War II?

Select two correct answers.

• Stalin did not allow free elections in Eastern Europe.

• Stalin refused to move Soviet forces out of territory they had occupied.

• Stalin refused to support the Allied Powers in the war in the Pacific.

Multiple Choice

Why did the Soviet Union construct the Berlin Wall?

• to prevent Allied troops from entering West Berlin

• to bring East Berlin under Soviet occupation

• to prevent people from leaving East Germany

Multiple Choice

What event led to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia?

• Democratic reforms spread in Czechoslovakia.

• Czechoslovakia broke its agreement with the Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact.

• Rebels attacked Soviet government buildings in Czechoslovakia and killed Soviet officials.

Summary

You have completed the review for the Cold War quiz.

• If you would like to review more information, you may go back and review lessons as you deem necessary.

• If you have any questions about the material you studied, contact your teacher before the day of the quiz.

Dropdown

Exit Ticket: Match the description to the event.

Democratic countries formed a military alliance ​ ​

Select answer

A state enacted democratic reforms, but the reforms did not last.​ ​

Select answer

The Soviet Union stopped people from leaving the Eastern Bloc. ​

Select answer