Cold War Unit Test Review

The ideological basis of the Cold War was conflict between communism and -

• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Fascism
• Socialism

This famous wall was built to divide what city during the Cold War?

• Berlin
• Moscow
• Warsaw
• Salzburg

I was the US President at the start of the Cold War. Who am I?

• Harry S. Truman
• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Dwight Eisenhower

What military organization was formed to protect Western Europe from Soviet aggression?

• NATO
• SEATO
• Allied Powers
• Warsaw Pact

Which communist military organization formed from Eastern European countries during the Cold War?

• NATO
• SEATO
• Allied Powers
• Warsaw Pact

What year did the Soviet Union fully collapse?

• 1984
• 1989
• 1991
• 1992

After World War II, which two countries emerged as superpowers?

• Britain and France
• United States and Soviet Union
• United States and Britain
• China and United States

The term "Iron Curtain" refers to —

• the division of the Korean peninsula after the war
• the closing down of European ports to Soviet goods
• the division between free enterprise and communist nations in Europe
• the United States pledge to defend Western Europe by force

During the 1980s, United States President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to "...tear down this wall." What wall was he referring to?

• Great Wall
• Wall of Warsaw
• Hadrian's Wall
• Berlin Wall

The United States threatened to use nuclear weapons during the —

• Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Chinese Civil War
• Cuban Missile Crisis