Review Cold War and Soviet Union

Which term is most closely associated with the situation shown in this photograph?

• nonalignment

• perestroika

• détente

• arms race

This cartoonist is comparing Vladimir Putin to

• Czar Nicholas II

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Boris Yeltsin

What is the significance of Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech?

• It led to a new nuclear arms race.

• It signaled the end of the Cold War.

• It predicted the eventual worldwide spread of communism.

• It caused new countries to become part of the Soviet Union.

Which statement about the Balkan Peninsula since 1995 is most accurate?

• Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia are now both controlled by Yugoslavia.

• Ethnic tensions and conflict continue to be a problem in much of the region.

• Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia became the first democratically elected leader of the region.

• The Balkan Peninsula has become one of the most prosperous regions in Europe.

What was an immediate result of the actions shown in these photographs?

• the creation of a one-party political system

• the rise of fascist dictators

• an easing of tensions between Eastern and Western Europe

• the formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

The use of political and military power by the Soviet Union in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was based on a desire to

• gain control of warm-water ports

• establish democratic governments

• preserve communist control

• spread the Eastern Orthodox Christian faiths

The treatment of Christian Armenians in Ottoman Turkey (1915) and the treatment of Bosnian Muslims in the former Yugoslavia (1990s) are examples of

• international relief efforts

• human rights violations

• expansion of voting rights

• government protection of minorities

What was the policy of peaceful coexistence toward the west adopted by Khrushchev?

(a)  

• Containment

• Detente

• Peaceful Revolution

• Peaceful Coexistence

Which doctrine stated the Soviet Union and its allies would intervene if the actions of one member nation threatened other socialist countries?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Brezhnev Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

After the fall of the USSR, what did many parts of the former USSR do?

• Attempted to reestablish communism
• Break away from Soviet Union and become independent
• Establish their own communist government
• Change their economic system to the command economy system