ColdWar Review West WH 5/11/23

In an effort to revitalize the Soviet economy during a period of stagnation, President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced a series of political and economic reforms that involved the restructuring of the Soviet system.

• True

• False

Who wrote The Communist Manifesto, the book that outlined the idea behind overthrowing capitalism and implementing the communist system? Freidrich Engels and ___________

• Karl Marx

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao Zedong

Why weren't nuclear weapons used during the Cold War?

• The Domino Theory

• The Marshall Plan

• Mutually assured destruction

• Strategic defensive initiative

Why was the US concerned about the spread of communism at the end of WWII?

• The Soviets were supporting communist parties in Eastern European countries

• Eastern European that were rebuilding were being influenced by communist parties within their countries

• Because socialism/communism threatens the economic and individual freedoms in a constitutional republic

• All of the above

The USSR first tested long range missiles in 1962.

• true

• false

Afghanistan invaded Russia in 1979.

• true

• false

The Chinese Civil War was between the Nationalists and the Communists.

• true

• false

Ms. West lived in West Germany because

• she had a job there

• Her father, who was in the military, was stationed there after learning Russian for one year

• She wanted to learn German after travelling through Europe.

• She was born there

NATO was formed to protect the Soviet Union from the West.

• True

• False

How much aid did the US provide European countries with the Marshall Plan? Europoe's infrastructure was destroyed by the fighting in the war.

• 13 million

• 13 billion

• 13 trillion

• 13 thousand