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WorksheetsQuarter 4 Benchmark Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Why is the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II called the "Cold War?"
Each country tried to get influence over stable and developed nations.
Each country attempted to influence smaller, weaker nations to be what they stood for [US - democracy and capitalism/USSR - communism] but not fight each other "head to head" in a traditional war
Each country used diplomacy instead of war to solve their problems.
Each country was impacted by horrible winter weather.
What city became the symbol of a place of freedom in the middle of the communist bloc?
Berlin
Rome
London
Stalingrad
What did Winston Churchill claim had descended upon Europe - dividing it into the eastern communist bloc and the free western bloc?
Containment Policy
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
Bay of Pigs Invasion
What was the Truman Doctrine based upon?
Containment
Appeasement
Diplomacy
Marshall Plan
What was built in order to stop the escaping of East Germans [especially the skilled and educated workers] into the free sector of Berlin?
Berlin Checkpoint Charlie
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Wall
What was the Nazi's name for their plan to reorganize all of Europe with the Aryans being the master race and the extermination of groups such as Jews, Gypsies, etc.
Operation Overlord
Holocaust
Final Solution
Blitzkrieg
What was the all-out attack by the Nazis called during WWII [it allowed them to take over large areas very quickly]?
Blitzkrieg
Containment
Appeasement
Stormtrooping
The Allied Powers plan to invade France to kick the Nazis out of this region
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Canned Goods
Operation Torch
Operation Overlord
The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 led to what?
Fidel Castro being overthrown in Cuba
The USSR launching nuclear missiles at the US
The US launching nuclear missiles at the USSR
The Soviet Union removing missiles from Cuba
Who took over Cuba and turned it into a communist nation?
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Marco Rubio
Ted Cruz
Due to not wanting to start another world war, Hitler and Mussolini's early aggressive acts were met by which action?
Containment
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Isolation
What organization was formed after WWII to keep world peace by settling disputes without warfare?
League of Nations
NATO
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
What alliance was formed after WWII to stop the spread of communism?
NATO
UN
Warsaw Pact
OPEC
What type of governmental/economic theory did Mussolini and Hitler create?
Fascism
Communism
Democracy
Absolute Monarchy
What type of governmental/economic theory did the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] operate?
Fascism
"Communism"
Absolute Monarchy
Democracy
Has a truly communistic nation ever really been formed and operated?
Yes
No
Which of these can be described as TOTALITARIAN governments?
Mussolini's Italy
Hitler's Germany
Stalin's Russia
Roosevelt's USA
What was a disadvantage that Germany had in both WWI and WWII due to its geographical location?
It was in the middle of its enemies.
It had no coast.
The mountains were too high to climb.
It shared a border with China.
Which of these programs did Gorbachev institute in an effort to save the Soviet Union - but they led to calls for more democratic reforms and a collapse of the Soviet Union?
Glasnot
Appeasement
Perestroika
Containment
What two Japanese cities were targets of the United States using the atomic bombs to end WWII?
Osaka
Tokyo
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
What are the waves of destruction of atomic weapons which lead to huge numbers of deaths?
Light/heat
Sound
Radiation
water
The Nazis blamed most of Germany's problems after WWI on
Treaty of Versailles
Munich Conference
Congress of Vienna
Berlin Conference
What was the name of the laws which created the systematic segregation of the races in South Africa which allowed the European-descendant minority to control the country?
Jim Crow laws
Apartheid
African National Congress
Colonialism
To make a nation pay the nations that are on the winning side of a way
Containment
Imperialism
Reparations
Nationalism
The leader of the movement in South Africa to end the racial inequalities in their land was?
Harry Truman
Nelson Mandela
Cecil Rhodes
Jim Crow
Which of these happened to Germany after WWII?
Some of its leaders were tried as war criminals
It was divided into 4 occupation zones by the victorious powers to "De-Nazify" it.
One zone became a "communist" nation of East Germany and the other three zones become a "democratic" West Germany.
They were forced to pay $33 billion in reparations.
Who led China into becoming a "communist" nation?
Chiang Kai Shek
Kim Jong Un
Hakero Tojo
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai Shek led which group in the Chinese Civil War and wanted to form a democracy?
Viet Minh
Freedom Fighters
Nationalists
Communists
Which nations did not see the US policy of containment work in that these nations became "communist" during the Cold War?
Cuba
Vietnam
China
Greece
Which British Prime Minister used APPEASEMENT as a way to avert war in the 1930s?
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Are there terrorist groups around the entire world today and all throughout history?
yes
no - only in the Middle East today
Terrorists like to use which tactics?
publicity stunts
harming children
using violence
harming civilians
The leader of North Vietnam who successfully led a guerrilla war against the United States and eventually united North and South Vietnam under "communist" rule was?
Kim Jung Il
Mao Tse Tung
Ho Chi Minh
Chang Kai Shek
Why do the Arabs and Jews have a long history of resentment to each other?
Both sides feel that the territory that is now Israel was promised to them by God/Allah.
Many policies of the Jewish state of Israel have turned the Arab minorities into second class citizens.
Many Arab nations deny Israel's right to even exist as a country.
All of the above.
What has led to the loss of Palestinian lands over the past 70 years?
Camp David Accords in which Israel agreed it deserved all the lands in the Middle East
Yalta Conference in which the US and USSR decided Palestine would be taken over
Arab-Israeli Wars in which Israel kept winning and taking more land to "protect" itself
WWII
What helped to spur on the revolutions known as the Arab Spring in 2011?
Social Media
TV
Radio
Movies
The Soviet foreign policy to assist, finance, and train to spread the communist ideology around the globe and to make sure it remained intact in areas that practiced communism was called?
Brezhnev Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
NATO
The areas of eastern Europe which the Soviet Union controlled as "puppet states" after WWII were called?
Satellite States
Colonies
Imperialistic territories
Third World Nations
The thought that nations near communist nations were very susceptible to falling to communism as well was called?
Containment
Brezhnev Doctrine
Domino Theory
Truman Doctrine
The Soviet invasion of what area was similar to the US involvement in Vietnam in that they could not win and it cost them credibility with many of their allies?
Afghanistan
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Korea
The belief that a country should be allowed to decide its own form of government and economic policies without the undue pressure of a Superpower
Containment
Bi-Polar
Self Determination
NATO
What war did the United States get heavily involved but most of the people there did not even want our help?
Vietnam
Afghanistan
Bolivia
Canada
What war did the USSR get heavily involved but most of the people there did not even want our help?
Vietnam
Afghanistan
Canada
Bolivia
Number 29 on the test is
D
D
D
D
The economies of the countries of the world are very
Interdependent
independent
stagnant
robust
