WH Unit 9

Which country invaded Afghanistan to aid its Communist government in 1979?

• United States

• Iran

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• President John F. Kennedy backed down and the U.S. avoided war.

• Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev removed the Soviet missiles from Cuba and avoided war.

• The United States took over Cuba.

• Neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev were willing to back down, and the missiles remained in Cuba.

When did the Cold War end?

• When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991

• When Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania declared their independence from the Soviet Union in 1990

• When the Eastern European nations began to demand their independence from the Soviet Union

• When the Berlin Wall was torn down

The Cold War ended during which person’s presidency?

• Richard Nixon

• George H. Bush

• George W. Bush

• Ronald Reagan

Who was the first U.S. president to meet Mao Zedong and recognize Communist China?

• Jimmy Carter

• Richard Nixon

• Harry Truman

• Ronald Reagan

10. Military alliance made up of democratic countries of Europe & North America

• SEATO

• CENTO

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

US plan to provide aid to the capital city in East Germany despite a Soviet blockade

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Airlift

• Containment

• Molotov Plan

US plan to give money & support to any nation threatened by Communism

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Warsaw Pact

• Molotov Plan

What was Containment?

• USA idea to stop the spread of Communism

• USSR idea to stop the spread of Democracy

• US plan to give economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WW2

• USSR plan to give economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WW2

After WWII, who won the civil war in China?

• Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists

• Sun Yat-sen and the Democrats

• Mao Zedong and the Communists

• Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong