Cold War Chapter 19 Pearson Review

Who was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement? 

• Martin Luther 
• JFK 
• Abraham Lincoln 
• Martin Luther King Jr. 

What were the main reasons for the failure of Mao's Great Leap Forward?

• Counterrevolutionaries seized control of China's farmland.
• Too many Chinese belonged to the middle class, or bourgeoisie.
• Industries turned out useless goods and communes removed incentives.
• He was horrible at Leap Frog as a child.

What conclusion can be drawn about the significance of the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community?

• It was the last attempt by the nations of Western Europe to cooperate economically until the creation of the European Union.
• It spurred economic growth and led to further regional cooperation such as the creation of the European Community.
• It led to increased tariffs and trade barriers that plagued Europe into the 1980s and 1990s.
• They caused many people to have the Black Lung.

What was the significance of the formation in 1955 of the Southeast-Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)?

• Its formation was part of the United States plan to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
• Its formation was part of the Soviet Union's strategy to contain Western power by forming alliances.
• People were tired of standing and finally got to sit down. 
• Its formation was part of the United States strategy to contain Soviet power by forming alliances.

Ho Chi Minh was a significant figure in the history of Southeast Asia because

• he led his people against French control and later against the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government.
• supported by the French, he led the North Vietnamese in their fight against South Vietnam.
• supported by the United States, he led the non-communist South Vietnamese government.
• he created Pokemon 

What events did John F. Kennedy not foresee when he made this statement in 1963?   “I don't think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. . . .We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisors, but they have to win it, the people of Vietnam, against the Communists.”

• that the United States would never be able to aid the non-communist government of South Vietnam.
• that the United States government would side with the communist guerrillas of North Vietnam
• that the United States would play no role in the Vietnam War
• that the United States would become involved in a full-scale war in Vietnam

What is the significance of Lech Walesa's election as president of Poland and Václav Havel's election as president of Czechoslovakia?

• These elections signified the changes in Eastern Europe brought about by the increased dominance of the Soviet Union.
• These elections signified the power that Mikhail Gorbachev had to put his puppets into positions of power in Eastern Europe.
• This was the first time they didn't vote by a show of hands.
• These elections signified the transformation of Eastern Europe from dominance by the Soviet Union to new democracies.

What policy is Gorbachev calling for in this statement?   “Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.” —Mikhail Gorbachev

• restructuring of the economy
• lessening restraints on emigration
• resisting political oppression
• greater openness

This statement refers to what initiative following World War II?   “The truth of the matter is that Europe’s requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products - principally from America - are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.”

• Marshall Plan
• Solidarity Movement
• Warsaw Pact
• Tet Offensive

To what American policy does this excerpt refer?   “Wherever it is considered timely and promising, efforts will be made to advance official limits of Soviet power.”

• Glasnost
• collectivization
• suburbanization
• containment