WHAP Unit 8: Cold War & Decolonization

Which of the following was NOT under the influence or controlled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

• Poland

• Czechoslovakia

• Eastern Germany

• Western Germany

China's strategy for modernization and economic development in the 1950s most closely resembled the developmental strategy of

• India

• Japan

• Soviet Union

• The United States

The leader who sought to develop Egypt economically and militarily and make it the fountainhead of pan-Arab nationalism during the 1950s was

• Saddam Hussein

• Gamal Abdel Nasser

• Anwar Sadat

• King Farouk

The leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence, and a persuasive spokesman for pan-African unity, was

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Marcus Garvey

• Bernard Dadie

The disastrous Great Leap Forward was back by

• Deng Xiaoping

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Yasser Arafat

• Mao Zedong

Which of the following was most clearly NOT a consequence of the Second World War?

• The nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States

• The democratic constitution of Japan

• The independence of Brazil

• The division of Berlin

The Cold War was an indirect conflict between

• US & England

• US & USSR

• USSR & Germany

The Cold War was an indirect conflict between

• US & England

• US & USSR

• USSR & Germany

One reason the US created NATO was to...

• contain democracy

• contain capitalism

• contain communism

In response to the creation of NATO

• Berlin was divided into 4 zones

• the USSR created the Warsaw Pact

• Cuba became communism