Cold War Checkpoint

What term describes the process of a country becoming independent from the imperial powers controlling it? 

• Communism

• Socialism

• Cold War 

• Decolonization  

What event is often thought of as the symbolic end of the Cold War? 

• The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 

• The battle of Cuito Cuanavale in 1988 

• The success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 

• The end of the Vietnam war in 1975 

What, in the broadest sense, were the rival powers fighting for in the Cold War? 

• Total freedom for people around the world 

• Global military and economic dominance 

• Control of the world’s shipping routes 

• Political domination of all European nations 

Although most countries were made weaker by the Second World War, what two countries emerged stronger? 

• France and Germany 

• The Soviet Union and the United States 

• France and the United States 

• Germany and the Soviet Union 

Why did the United States launch the Marshall Plan? 

• The people of Germany and Japan asked for assistance from the United States after World War II.

• The United States was forced to give money to Germany and Japan because it lost the war. 

• The United States government felt bad for damaging those countries during the war. 

• The United States wanted to rebuild Western Europe and Japan to limit communist influence. 

Why were wealthy nations able to continue to exploit their former colonies even after those colonies gained independence? 

• The newly independent nations were poor and destitute places in the first place where people could not survive without outside help. 

• The newly independent nations’ nationalization projects failed, so they needed to maintain ties with their former colonizers. 

• There were people in the former colonies who wanted the colonizers to stay. 

• Newly independent nations were often still economically dependent on former colonizers because of cash crops. 

What groups of Americans did not share in the new economic prosperity in the United States? 

• Middle class Americans saw their lives remain stagnant as other groups in society were enjoying growth. 

• Working class Americans often worked long hours in hard jobs and did not get rewarded for their work. 

• The social elites did not experience the same level of growth as the working and middle classes because of taxation. 

• Black citizens were systematically excluded from the American dream of cars and homes by official and unofficial policies. 

What was the basic difference at the heart of the Cold War conflict? 

• The difference between economic world views. 

• The difference between how empires should manage their colonies. 

• The difference between how nuclear weapons should be developed 

• The difference between communism and socialism 

What is true about the Korean War (1950 to 1953)? 

• Following WWII, the Korean peninsula was unified under communist rule. 

• The Soviet Union supported the South of Korea and established a new capital along the Yellow Sea. 

• The Soviet Union supported North Korea and lead North Korean troops to invade the South. 

• Chinese leader Mao Zedong sent troops to North Korea and warned the United States to keep away from the Yalu boundary unless it wanted a full-scale war. 

Despite the fact that the United States and Soviet Union were allies during WWII, their relations during the war were generally speaking very uneasy.

• True

• False