Cold War Heats Up

The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to get rid of which communist leader?

(a)  

• Fidel Castro
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Joseph Stalin
• None of the above

The Soviet leader at the time of the Bay of Pigs was___________.

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

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c

b

a

Korea

Vietnam

Soviet Union

China

Korea was divided along the __________ Parallel after World War II.

• 35^th

• 36^th

• 37^th

• 38^th

Who overthrew China during the Cold War and created a Communist government there?

• Miguel Gorbachev
• Fidel Castro
• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh

What was an immediate result of Mao's "Great Leap

Forward" (1958)?

• increased famine in China

• the relocation of Bosnian refugees

• the breakup of the Soviet Union

• independence of Kenya from Great Britain

What is the name of the army of young students that Mao used to enforce policies in the 1960's?

• The Red Guard

• The Kuomintang

• The great Collective

• The Alliance for Progress

What was the Cultural Revolution?

• Mao's attempt to regain control of China and get rid of anything "old" in the country

• Introducing democracy to the Chinese people

• Showing the rest of the world how powerful Mao was

• Growing crops and producing steel at a very rapid rate

What started the space race?

• Kennedy wanted to send a man to the moon

• Project Mercury was created with the goal to orbit Earth

• The Soviet Union launched Sputnik

• Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth

Western European countries joined with the US & Canada in this alliance.

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• The Space Race

• Star Wars