Cold War Quiz

The Baltic States of ___regained full independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

• Russia

• Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

• Ukraine, Georgia, and Azerbaijan

• Uzbekistan, Belarus, and Moldova

Complete the sentence with the best answer.

The Domino theory refers to the belief that ________.

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

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

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

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

Complete the sentence with the best answer.

The Great Leap Forward was a program designed to ________.

• 1. 
     spread Chinese communism throughout Asia

  
  

• 1. increase farm and industrial output in China

• 1. purge China of bourgeois tendencies

• 1. protect North Korea from South Korea

Complete the sentence with the best answer.

Containment was the strategy America used to ________.

• 1. offer financial incentives to communist countries to adopt democracy

• mpose economic sanctions on communist countries until they adopted democracy

• 1. limit communism to the areas already under Soviet control

• 1. 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,

• 1. there are fewer goods available.

• 1. the state makes all the decisions.

• 1. there is less economic freedom.

• 1. there is more economic freedom.

The Marshall Plan was part of an American strategy to ______.

• 1. promote free elections in Europe after World War II

• 1. 
     help European countries rebuild after World War II

  
  

• 1. 
     help Eastern European countries break away from the Soviet Union

  
  

• 1. convince European countries to join NATO

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."

• 1. Joseph Stalin

• 1. Winston Churchill

• 1. Harry Truman

• 1. Franklin Roosevelt

With which country did the United States negotiate the agreement referred to in the text?

His successor, President Richard Nixon, eventually arranged a cease-fire agreement in 1973.

• 1. Thailand

• 1. Cambodia

• 1. North Vietnam

• 1. North Korea

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."

• 1. The Domino Theory

• 1. The Marshall Plan

• 1. The Four Freedoms

• 1. The Truman Doctrine

Why did the Vietnamese fight the French in Indochina?

• 1. Ho Chi Minh's forces were backed by China.

• 1. 
     Ngo Dinh Diem had American support.

  
  

• 1. The Viet Minh wanted independence.

• 1. The Viet Minh wanted to be ruled by the Soviet Union.