Unit 7.8 The Cold War in Asia

What term is used to describe the major initiative started by Mao Zedong to rapidly industrialize China's economy in the late 1950s?

• Cultural Revolution

• Domino Theory

• Red Guards

• Great Leap Forward

Which term refers to the socio-political movement initiated by Mao Zedong during the 1960s and 1970s, aimed at preserving Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society?

• Great Leap Forward

• Domino Theory

• Red Guards

• Cultural Revolution

What was the name given to the mass paramilitary social movement of young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967 during the Cultural Revolution to carry out tasks of social reform?

• Great Leap Forward

• Domino Theory

• Red Guards

• Cultural Revolution

Which term describes the theory that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect?

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Red Guards

• Domino Theory

What were the conflicts and revolutionary movements of the Cold War?

• World War II and the rise of fascism

• The Vietnam War and the Cuban Revolution

• The American Civil War and abolitionism

• The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars

Which region does the title "The Cold War in Asia" suggest the focus of the Cold War events described in this section of the learning material?

• Europe

• North America

• Asia

• Africa

What was the primary focus of the U.S.A. during the onset of the Cold War in the late 1940s?

• To promote democracy in South America

• To stop the spread of Communism in Europe

• To establish economic ties with Asia

• To support monarchies in the Middle East

In which year did the U.S. containment strategy begin to appear ineffective as Communism spread to China, Korea, and Vietnam?

• 1945

• 1950

• 1949

• 1955

Who led the group of nationalists that ended the Chinese dynastic system in 1912?

• Mao Zedong

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Sun Yat-Sen

• Zhou Enlai

What was the name of the democracy created in China in 1912?

• People's Republic of China

• Republic of China

• Democratic Republic of China

• Federal Republic of China