The Cold War Era

What was the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that came close to starting a nuclear war?

• Red Scare

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Bay of Pigs

• The Manhattan Project

Mao Zedong was the Communist leader of what country?

• Vietnan

• South Korea

• China

• Soviet Union

What was Mikhail Gorbachev's initial reforming economic policy in the Soviet Union?

• Mein Kampf

• Kristallnatch

• Gorbachev policy

• Perestroika

What was the Great Leap Forward?

• Radical program in the Soviet Union to speed up the country's economic growth and reach the final stages of communism

• Radical program in China to speed up the country's economic growth and reach the final stages of communism

• U.S. foreign policy aimed at resisting the spread of Communism around the globe

• Chinese foreign policy aimed at resisting the spread of Communism around the globe

The Cold War was a competition between which two super powers?

• United States and Soviet Union

• United States and China

• Soviet Union and China

• Soviet Union and Japan

What does MAD stand for?

• Maximum Acceleration Destruction

• Mutual Alliance Defense

• Moscow Allegiance Demand

• Mutual Assured Destruction

What was the symbolic end of the Cold War?

• Berlin Wall being torn down

• Berlin Airlift

• Unification of a Communist Berlin

• Berlin Blockade

The Soviet Union collapsed in what year?

• 1992

• 1991

• 1989

• 1997

Winston Churchill used what image to describe the division of Europe?

• A closed door

• The iron curtain

• The Grand Canyon

• The Steel Fist

Who is the "Father of Communism?"

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao Zedong

• Vladimir Lenin

• Karl Marx