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Worksheets08. The Cold War Era Practice Assessment VIII
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
policy to reduce tensions between superpowers
draft
detente
perjury
Alliance for Progress
provided aid to Latin American countries
Truman Doctrine
Alliance for Progress
Marshall Plan
détente
helped Europe rebuild after World War II
Alliance for Progress
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
perjury
system of mandatory enlistment
perjury
draft
détente
Alliance for Progress
encouraged resistance to communist expansion
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Alliance for Progress
act of lying under oath
draft
détente
perjury
Which of the following phrases BEST defines the term Cold War?
conflict between armed opponents
competition for economic and political power
conflict that involves exchange of atomic weapons
competition for petroleum resources in the Arctic
Who were the two main adversaries in the Cold War?
Germany and the Soviet Union
the United States and the Soviet Union
East and West Germany
the United States and China
What does the area identified by slanted
lines represent?
South Korea
North Korea
the Korean Peninsula
China
Which statement is supported by the
information on the map?
North Korea gained a vast amount of territory as a result of the war.
South Korea gained a vast amount of territory as a result of the war.
Neither side gained much territory as a result of the war.
The war reunited North Korea and South Korea.
Why was geography important during the Cuban missile crisis?
The communist government took over American businesses on the island.
The island is located just 90 miles from the coast of Florida.
The Soviets gave financial aid to the communist government of Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs invasion failed to overthrow Castro.
What does the area identified by dots represent?
the Korean Peninsula
North Korea
South Korea
China
What information shown on the map illustrates a result of the Cold War competition for power?
North Korea shares a border wit China along the Yalu River.
The Korean Peninsula is only about 100 miles from Japan.
The 38th parallel of latitude lies about midway up the Korean Peninsula.
The Korean Peninsula was divided into a communist North and a democratic South.
Which of the following was a result of the Cuban missile crisis?
Cuban exiles attempted to invade Cuba.
The United States and the Soviet Union reached a compromise about Cuba.
The government of Cuba no longer accepted Soviet aid.
The Soviet Union completed its missile bases in Cuba.
What impact did the Tet Offensive in January 1968 have on the war in Vietnam?
Vietcong military victories persuaded the United States to withdraw from South Vietnam.
American and South Vietnamese military victories forced the Vietcong to surrender.
Support for the war increased in the United States.
Opposition to the war increased in the United States.
Which of the following contributed the MOST to the fall of the Soviet Union?
President Nixon’s policy of détente
the collapse of a flawed economic system
the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympics
the destruction of the Berlin Wall
Which of the following is an example of containment?
The Soviet Union set up a satellite state in Poland.
The Allies divided Germany into four zones.
The United States helped Greece prevent a communist revolution.
North Korea invaded South Korea.
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Vietnam War?
Nearly 60,000 American soldiers died.
Large numbers of Vietnamese refugees fled to the United States.
Differing opinions about the war divided the American people.
A noncommunist government was installed in a reunited Vietnam.
Which of the following contributed to the fall of communism in Eastern Europe?
overwhelming popular demand for reforms
the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev
the success of the state-controlled economies
the growing military might of the Soviet Union
Which of the following is an example of the Marshall Plan at work?
The Soviet Union blockaded the city of Berlin.
The United Nations sent military forces to Korea.
The United States helped France rebuild its economy.
The United States set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
What action led the Senate to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy?
McCarthy condemned Alger Hiss for passing secrets to the Soviet Union.
McCarthy opposed the Communist Party.
McCarthy accused Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of spying for the Soviet Union.
McCarthy insisted that there were Communists in the United States Army.
The United States intervened in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s to
support anticommunist political groups.
overthrow undemocratic governments.
encourage investment in industry.
end military dictatorships in the region.
About how many American troops were in
South Vietnam in 1963?
160,000
80,000
500,000
16,000
What inference can be drawn from the graph?
In 1965, the United States began withdrawing its troops from South Vietnam.
After 1971, the United States began withdrawing its troops from South Vietnam.
In 1974, the United States began withdrawing its troops from South Vietnam.
After 1969, the United States began withdrawing its troops from South Vietnam.
In what year shown here did the United States have its largest military presence in South Vietnam?
1965
1969
1971
1963
How does the graph reflect the United States response to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The United States withdrew almost all of its combat troops in Vietnam by 1974.
The United States sharply decreased its military presence in Vietnam between 1969 and 1971.
The United States increased the number of its troops in Vietnam to almost 200,000 by 1965.
The United States increased its troop strength in Vietnam by more than 100,000 between 1967 and 1969.
Which statement BEST describes the Cold War in Africa and Asia?
Newly independent nations avoided involvement in the superpowers’ struggle.
The superpowers paid little attention to the newly independent nations.
Each superpower tried to win allies in the newly independent nations.
Newly independent nations refused to accept aid from either superpower.
Which of the following promoted reforms in Latin America?
the Alliance for Progress
the Truman Doctrine
the Marshall Plan
the SALT Agreement
How did the United States respond to the Soviet Union’s Berlin blockade?
airlifted supplies to the people of Berlin
withdrew its troops from Germany
sent troops into the Russian zone of Germany
built a wall between East Berlin and West Berlin
What term describes the stockpiling of nuclear weapons by the superpowers?
blockade
space race
arms race
détente
Which of these events did NOT take place in 1949?
Fifty-one nations ratified the United Nations charter.
The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb.
Communists seized power in China.
China’s Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan.
Which statement BEST describes results of the Vietnam War in the United States?
The American people were united in their support for the Vietnam War.
The United States government repealed the draft and used a volunteer army in Vietnam.
Many Americans protested against the nation’s involvement in the Vietnam.
Most Americans supported the government of North Vietnam during the war.
Which phrase BEST describes the policy identified in the left oval?
taking measures to reform corruption within an economic system
challenging the other superpower in every part of the world
developing new weapons systems that threaten the other superpower
finding ways to ease tensions between the superpowers
Which of the following programs reflected the policies identified in the right oval?
Solidarity
Glasnost
Star Wars
Sputnik
Which President’s name could be printed on the blank line in the right oval?
Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Which of these inferences can be drawn from the information on the Venn diagram?
Both Presidents expanded the arms race as a part of the Cold War.
Each President established ties with the Soviet Union.
Neither President reached an arms reduction agreement with the Soviets.
Both Presidents limited arms using the same approach.
Which statement BEST describes major Cold War alliances?
Communist countries formed the SALT Agreement; western democracies formed the Warsaw Pact.
Western democracies formed both NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
Communist countries formed both the SALT Agreement and the
Warsaw Pact.
Western democracies formed NATO; communist countries formed the Warsaw Pact.
Which of these significant historic events occurred in 1991?
the collapse of the Soviet Union
the end of the Vietnam War
the Berlin Airlift
Richard Nixon’s visit to China
What act caused the United States to lead a United Nations military force into Korea?
Communist forces from South Korea invaded North Korea.
Communist forces from China invaded South Korea.
Communist forces from China invaded North Korea.
Communist forces from North Korea invaded South Korea.
Which of the following is one way in which the Cold War affected American life?
Americans were united on the best way to conduct foreign policy.
Fear of communism created a climate of suspicion in the nation.
Reduced spending on defense freed up money for social programs.
Only a few American soldiers lost their lives in wars.
