Chinese Revolution and end of Cold War

What was an immediate result of the Great Leap Forward (1958)?

• independence of Kenya from Great Britain

• the breakup of the Soviet Union

• the relocation of Bosnian refugees

• increased famine in China

One similarity between Stalin’s five-year plans and Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward was that both programs attempted to

• increase industrial production and collectivized farms

• privatize the ownership of land

• correct environmental pollution

• strengthen international trade

What was a major reason for the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war (1949)?

• The Nationalists had been supported by the Japanese.

• Many Chinese warlords supported the Communists.

• The Communists had superior military equipment.

• The Communists promised land to the peasants.

In China the terms "Long March," "Little Red Book," and "Great Leap Forward" are most closely associated with the

• economic policies of the Kuomintang

• expulsion of foreigners during the Boxer Rebellion

• foreign policy under Deng Xiaoping

• leadership of Mao Zedong

The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a missile treaty in hopes of?

• Reducing tensions associated with the threat of nuclear war

• Providing an exchange of weapons for war hostages

• Allowing secret weapons technologies to be shared

• Establishing an official cease-fire

What happened to East and West Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall?

• They kept the same political system
• They unified into one democratic country
• They unified into one communist country
• They rebuilt the wall.

During the Cold War, which event happened last?

• Korean War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Airlift

• Fall of Berlin Wall

• Vietnam War

After the fall of the USSR, what did many parts of the former USSR do?

• Attempted to reestablish communism

• Break away from Soviet Union and become independent nations

• Establish their own communist government

• Change their economic system to the command economy system

TRUE or FALSE

NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

• True

• False