Cold War Quiz Review

The Vietnam War...

• involved Capitalist north Vietnam and China versus Communist South Vietnam and the U.S.

• ended with Communist North Vietnam taking over South Vietnam.

• ended with a ceasefire along the 38th Parallel.

• proved to be a great victory for Capitalist Democracy.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused when...

• the Soviet Union attempted to take over a Cuban military base.

• the United States refused to allow Cuba to join the United Nations.

• Cuba attempted to build a nuclear weapons program.

• the Soviet Union attempted to place nuclear missiles in Cuba.

The political and economic collapse of which country ended the Cold War?

• the United States

• Cuba

• the Soviet Union

• China

The Soviet Union would send this man into, becoming the first man in space.

• Neil Armstrong

• Jim Lovell

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Yuri Gagarin

The Soviets launched the first satellite into space in 1957, what was it called?

• NASA

• Magellan

• Sputnik

• Cosmonaut

This was the US President who told Gorbachev to "Tear Down this Wall"

• George W. bush

• George H.W. Bush

• Ronald Reagan

• Richard Nixon

This was the soviet leader who wanted to reform the Soviet Union with Glasnost and Perestroika.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Josef Stalin

• Nikita Kruschev

• Leonid Breznev

What was the Alliance that was led by the US and included many Western European Nations?

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• League of Nations

• Allied Powers

• Axis Powers

What is the International Organization created after WWII?

• League of Nations

• World Wildlife Federation

• United Nations

• Amnesty International

Who were the main countries in WWII that made up the Allies?

• Japan, Soviet Union, and France

• Great Britain, Italy, Nazi Germany, and the United States

• Japan, Nazi Germany, Italy, and Poland

• United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain