Chapter 18 Quiz Review

The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should

• Hold free elections to determine their futures

• Becomes mandates of the Allies

• Join the Soviet Union

• Restore their pre-war monarchies

The United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II because

• The Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons.

• The Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe

• Communists and Western capitalists distrusted each other

• The United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states.

The Truman Doctrine promised to

• Restore control of satellite nation to the Soviet Union

• End the civil war in Greece and rid the country of communists

• Use military force to fight communist expansion in Asia

• Give economic aid to countries threatened by communism.

The Marshall Plan was based on the idea that

• North and South Korea should be unified

• Communism succeeded only in countries with economic problems

• Military force was the best way to contain communism

• Nations should maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons

The Warsaw Pact sought to

• Create a plan for the reduction of nuclear weapons in Europe.

• Provide economic assistance to Polish Jews after World War II

• Create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European nations.

• Prevent Soviet expansion into Poland and Denmark.

After Mao Zedong’s forces claimed victory in the civil war,

• Mao gave up the presidency and invited the south to join his forces.

• Chiang Kai-shek and 2 million followers fled to Taiwan

• The communists overturned Mao and took away his leadership

• The Chinese people voted overwhelmingly to follow Chiang Kai-shek.

The Great Leap Forward was an economic disaster in part because of

• Civil war

• A lack of sustainable land

• A decrease in population

• Droughts and floods

Permanent Revolution was important to Mao Zedong mostly because

• He believed it was the only way to achieve a classless society

• He wanted the Chinese people to be at peace

• It inspired people to be loyal to him as a leader

• The Cultural Revolution did not work

Why did China’s relations with the Soviet Union become strained?

• The Soviet Union had become strong ally of the United States

• China wanted to take over several Soviet satellite countries

• The Soviet Union did not want to attack Taiwan on behalf of China

• China’s cultural ideas clashed with those of the Soviet Union

True or false: The huge communes in China were a great success because they produced record amounts of food.

• True

• False