Unit 8 (Cold War) Quizizz

The Domino theory refers to the belief that ________.

• a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism

• a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause North Vietnam to declare war on the United States

• a South Vietnamese victory would cause communist governments in Asia to declare war on the United States

• a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause the people of Vietnam to rebel against the communist government

The Great Leap Forward was a program designed to ________.

• spread Chinese communism throughout Asia

• increase farm and industrial output in China

• purge China of bourgeois tendencies

• protect North Korea from South Korea

Containment was the strategy America used to ________.

• offer financial incentives to communist countries to adopt democracy

• impose economic sanctions on communist countries until they adopted democracy

• limit communism to the areas already under Soviet control

• ensure that communism did not gain a foothold in the United States

The U.S. economy is different from the former Soviet Union's economy because in the United States,

• there are fewer goods available.

• the state makes all the decisions.

• there is less economic freedom.

• there is more economic freedom.

Who first used the term "iron curtain" in the text below to describe what happened in Europe at the end of World War II? "An 'iron curtain' has descended across the Continent. Behind that line all of the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe . . . all these famous cities . . . lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and are subject . . . to a very high measure of control from Moscow."

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

• Harry Truman

• Franklin Roosevelt

To what policy does the text below refer? "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

• Domino Theory

• Marshall Plan

• Four Freedoms

• Truman Doctrine

What prompted the passing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution referred to in the text?

• attacks on an American warship, the Maddox

• attacks on American troops during the Tet Offensive

• attacks on the Vietnamese refugees known as the "boat people"

• attacks on American gunboats in the Mekong Delta

The accompanying text refers to a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which

The plaintiffs in Brown asserted that this system of racial separation, while masquerading as providing separate but equal treatment of both white and black Americans, instead perpetuated inferior accommodations, services, and treatment for black Americans.

• declared that busing students to achieve racial balance was unconstitutional

• declared that discrimination against black teachers was unconstitutional

• declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional

• declared that segregation in housing was unconstitutional

The failure of a program known as the ______ led to the crisis described in the accompanying text.

"The term 'famine‘, or even 'Great Famine‘, is often used to describe these four to five years of the Maoist era, but the term fails to capture the many ways in which people died under radical collectivization."

• Cultural Revolution

• Great Leap Forward

• Dynastic Cycle

• Caste System

Mao's "little red book" was widely used during the Cultural Revolution, a program designed to ________.

• Increase Industrial Productivity

• Purge China of bourgeois tendancies

• Educate China's peasents

• Challenge Soviet style communism