Cold War

These were the opposing superpowers during the Cold War years

• China and Russia
• Cuba and Russia
• USA and Russia
• Iran and Russia

What is the purpose of N.A.T.O?

• Countries joining together to end democracy
• Countries joining together to stop trade between the East and West
• Countries joining together to fend off attacks by other communist countries
• Countries joining together to create one kind of currency (S)

Which country did the U.S. send military aid to during the Korean War?

• North Korea
• South Korea
• Germany
• Japan

Which country was Nikita Khrushchev the leader of in the 1950's?

• United Stated
• France
• Soviet Union
• Germany

Why did the U.S. enter the Korean War?

• It did not want another country to fall to communists
• It did not want another country to be split
• It wanted to attack North Korea
• It wanted to sell more weapons to its allies

Who was the leader of the communist government in North Vietnam?

• Ho Chi Minh
• Joseph Stalin
• Mao Zedong
• Nikita Khrushchev

Which side ended up winning the Vietnam war and taking control of the entire country?

• Soviet Union
• North Vietnam
• United States
• South Vietnam

Who was the first man to set foot on the moon?

• Louis Armstrong
• Neil Armstrong
• Yuri Gagarin
• Charles Lindbergh

Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall?

• They built it to keep Soviet people from going to Western Europe.
• They built it to try to keep East Germans from going to West Germany.
• The Soviet Union and the United States divided Berlin in two parts after the war.
• The Soviet Union was trying to put people back to work by building the Berlin Wall.

What was the name for the 1955 alliance of Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe  that were the counterpart to the western alliance?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• European Alliance
• Iron Curtain

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