COLD WAR QUIZ

Which heading would best complete the partial outline below?

I. ______________________________________

A. Signing of the Warsaw Pact

B. Creation of Soviet satellite states

C. Berlin blockade

D. Cuban missile crisis

• Actions of the United Nations.

• Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

• Events of the Cold War.

• Causes of World War II.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was followed by

• an end of democratic rule in Germany.

• the rise of a Neo-Nazi movement in Spain.

• an expansion of the Warsaw Pact.

• the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union.

“United States Airlifts Supplies to Berlin”

“U-2 Spy Plane Shot down Over the Soviet Union”

“Soviet Missiles Placed in Cuba”

These headlines discuss events during

• Stalin’s Reign of Terror

• the Cold War

• World War II

• the post-Cold War era.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the democracies in the West competed for influence in the Middle East because of its

• strategic location and valuable resources.

• vast fertile farmlands and rivers.

• large well-educated population.

• industrial potential.

During most of the Cold War period, which two nations were divided into communist and noncommunist parts?

• China and Mongolia

• Pakistan and Ireland

• Vietnam and Korea

• Poland and Cuba.

The political climate of the Cold War caused the world’s two superpowers to

• cooperate in halting the spread of communism.

• colonize Africa and Asia.

• compete economically and militarily.

• protect human rights.

The end of the Cold War is best symbolized by the

• establishment of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

• formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European common market.

• withdrawal of United Nations forces from Somalia and from Kuwait.

• destruction of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.

• Blockade of Berlin

• Operation of the Berlin Airlift

• Organization of the Warsaw Pact

• Construction of the Berlin Wall

These events of the Cold War are examples of

• efforts to prevent military conflict between the superpowers.

• situations that increased tensions between communist and democratic nation in Europe.

• attempts to weaken the Soviet Union's control of its Eastern European allies.

• policies of peaceful coexistence and détente.

• Berlin airlift

• Cuban missile crisis

• Nuclear arms race

These events were part of an era known as the

• Age of Imperialism

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Cold War

• Creation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the Warsaw Pact.

• Construction of the Berlin Wall

• Cuban missile crisis.

These events are most closely associated with

• World War I

• World War II

• the Cold War.

• the Persian Gulf War.