Cold War Quizizz

The Berlin Wall demonstrated Cold War tensions by--

• dividing democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin

• all of Germany came under communist control

• the establishment of NATO headquarters in East Berlin

• creating the demilitarized zone at the 38th parallel

The United States threatened to use nuclear weapons during the --

• Iraq invasion of Kuwait

• Chinese Civil War

• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Both superpowers after World War II engaging in a race to match each other's nuclear weapons demonstrates the theory of--

• deterrence

• realpolitik

• appeasement

• tolerance

Which quote by Mikhail Gorbachev best defends his policies of glasnost and perestroika?

• More socialism means more democracy, openness, and collectivism in everyday life

• I am a Communist, a convinced Communist!

• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society

• The market is not an invention of capitalism

During the Cold War, why were the United States and the Soviet Union reluctant to get involved in a direct military conflict with one another?

• Both countries had significantly reduced their supply of weapons

• The countries feared the possibility of global nuclear destruction

• The Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe had dissolved

• Other countries threatened to place economic embargoes on both countries