Cold War Assignment

At the end of WWII, which two nations emerged as Superpowers at the start of the Cold War?

• Germany and Italy

• Britain and France

• Soviet Union and United States

• Korea and Vietnam

The Chinese Revolution was significant to the Cold War because -

• it supported North Korea in the Korean War

• it supported the Vietnamese in the Vietnam War

• it created a buffer of democracy between Asia and USSR

• it spread its isolationist ideas through Asia

The policy of containment led to -

• continued American imperialism

• the Korean and Vietnam wars

• the Chinese Revolution

• the spread of American values to Asia

A direct result of the Cold War was -

• the U.S. and Soviet Union refused to cooperate with each other

• the Soviet Union and U.S. worked together to promote peace

• both countries encouraged each other's scientific discoveries

• the U.S. and Soviet Union became allies

Both the Korean and Vietnam wars were -

• to continue and expand American imperialism

• proxy wars defending colonies of NATO members

• proxy wars to insure policy of containment is upheld

• to spread American values to Asia

What is a purpose of the United Nations?

• Act as a world government

• Make laws for every country

• Punish those who break laws

• Maintain international peace and security

Prior to the WWII and the subsequent Cold War that followed in the 20^th century, what defining factor of the 19^th and early 20^th century would have dominated the world?

• Slave-based Empires

• Spread of Religion

• Spread of Disease

• Colonial Empires

The peacekeeping body created at the end of World War II was -

• the League of Nations

• the Treaty of Versailles

• the Nuremberg Trials

• the United Nations

Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II contributed to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe by -

• creating a five-year plan to industrialize China

• lifting the Iron Curtain and introducing reforms to the Soviet Union

• providing military aid to anyone that resisted communism

• fighting for greater personal freedoms in Poland

The Warsaw Pact was signed -

• to unite the Western powers against possible invasion by the Soviet Union

• between the USSR and Cuba after the American-backed Bay of Pigs invasion

• to create an Eastern bloc alliance to counter NATO

• to unite pro-American nations in Southeast Asia against Communism