WorksheetsCold War
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What Soviet leader was in power during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a)
Lenin
b)
Stalin
c)
Khruschev
d)
Gorbachev
2.
What is a war between two nations that never directly fight called?
a)
Cold War
b)
Neutral War
c)
Hot War
d)
Diplomate War
3.
What as the structural symbol of the Cold War?
a)
The Great Wall
b)
The Berlin Wall
c)
The 15th Parallel
d)
The Iron Curtin
4.
In the Korean War the Chinese fought for the North Koreans against South Korea and who?
a)
The Russians
b)
The Japanese
c)
The Americans
d)
The Germans
5.
Gorbachev's restructuring of the Russian economy was call what?
a)
Marxism
b)
Perestroika
c)
Stalinization
d)
Collectivization
6.
Sputnik began what competition between the Soviet Union and the United States?
a)
The Olympics
b)
The Space Race
c)
The U-2 Incident
d)
Detente
7.
To protect American interests, the CIA helped remove democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz from what country?
a)
Guatemala
b)
Panama
c)
Patagonia
d)
Nicaragua
8.
The relaxation of tension after the Cuban Missile Crisis was called what?
a)
Detente
b)
Dormir
c)
Sieste
d)
Emprunte
9.
Cold War tensions increased in 1979 when Russians invaded what country?
a)
Korea
b)
Iran
c)
Afghanistan
d)
Poland
10.
What were the Buddhist monks protesting when they lit themselves on fire?
a)
The oppressive South Vietnamese regime
b)
The Chinese involvement in North Korea
c)
The genocide in Cambodia
d)
The Russian invasion of Afghanistan
11.
Which of the following is not a result of Cold Technology?
a)
The Internet
b)
GPS
c)
Cable Television
d)
The Automobile
12.
After the Tienanmen Square Massacre, one man's protest became world wide news, he was known as what?
a)
The Tank Man
b)
The Hero of Beijing
c)
The Lone Soldier
d)
The People's Warrior
13.
To protest the invasion of Afghanistan the United States boycotted what?
a)
The purchase of opium
b)
The Moscow Olympics
c)
The Russian Ballet
d)
The SALT Convention
14.
What was the Soviet Alliance called?
a)
Warsaw Pact
b)
NATO
c)
SALT
d)
Marshall Plan
15.
What was the name of the scandal where the US sold weapons to pay to support drug dealers in Nicaragua?
a)
The Iran Contra Affair
b)
The Iran Hostage Crisis
c)
The Persian Gulf Crisis
d)
The Iraq Sandista Affair
16.
According to the Russians, what was the first action of the Cold War?
a)
The Berlin Airlift
b)
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan
c)
The Truman Doctrine
d)
The U-2 Incident
17.
Through his Five Year Plans, who wanted to transform Russia's agricultural economy to an industrial economy?
a)
Trotsky
b)
Stalin
c)
Khruschev
d)
Yeltsin
18.
Britain, France, and Israel did not support returning the Suez Canal to what country?
a)
Iran
b)
Iraq
c)
Egypt
d)
Panama
19.
Mao Zedong wanted to revolutionize everything in China from the government, culture and the economy. His plan of changing the economy was called what?
a)
The Great Leap Forward
b)
The Economic Revolution
c)
The People's Economy
d)
The Red Guard Reform
20.
Which of the following is not an example of a "proxy" war in the Cold War?
a)
The Vietnam War
b)
The Korean War
c)
The Invasion of Afghanistan
d)
The Persian Gulf War
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