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WorksheetsCold War Review
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 26mins
In what country was East Berlin located?
West Germany
East Germany
Berlinia
Russia
In what country was West Berlin located?
East Germany
West Germany
Russia
France
Why did the USA leave Vietnam?
The Vietnamese asked politely so the USA said "ok, I guess"
Public opinion in the US had turned against the war
The Soviet Union threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on Vietnam
The US Military had killed all of the enemy soldiers so there was no left to kill.
He was the Soviet leader that wanted to "Destalinize" Russia
Gorbachev
Brezhnev
Stalin III
Khrushchev
The French suffered a defeat against the Vietnamese at this battle:
Battle of Paris
Battle of Algeria
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Helm's Deep
Alexander Dubcek was the leader of the "Prague Spring" movement in this country:
Czechoslovakia
France
West Germany
Great Britain
All of the following were democratic (free) countries during the Cold War EXCEPT:
France
West Germany
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
The leader of the Vietnamese communist forces was:
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Jung Il
Moon Jae-in
Kang Seul-gi
Another name for the Soviet Union would be the:
USA
CUBA
USSR
NCAA
The first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the earth was:
Gemini
Sputnik
Vostok
Apollo
The Russians successfully launched an animal into space in the late 1950s; what kind of an animal was Laika?
Dog
Squirrel
Cat
Spider-Monkey
All of the following were communist countries during the Cold War EXCEPT:
Hungary
Poland
Belgium
The USSR
What was the dividing line between North and South Korea after the Korean War?
The 38th Parallel
No Man's Land
The 17th Parallel
The Border Wall (Mexico)
What event caused goods to have to be airlifted into Berlin, instead of traditional modes of transportation?
The Soviets had blocked all land access into West Berlin
Germany tried to push the Allied powers out
The roads were all blown up because of World War I
The president was in town so they had to block off all the roads for a year
Prior to World War II, Vietnam had been a colony of this European nation:
France
Germany
Great Britain
Russia
He was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis:
Castro
Dubcek
Janos
Brezhnev
Theory that if Vietnam became communist, other countries in the area might also become communist is known as ________ theory.
Jamestown
Domino
Truman
Sputnik
The US plan to give money to countries like West Germany to help them rebuild after World War II was called the ________ plan.
Marshall
God's
Joffre
Schlieffen
The first man in space was named:
Alexander Dubcek
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Nikita Khrushchev
The first man on the moon was named:
Alexander Dubcek
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Nikita Khrushchev
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis was:
Alexander Dubcek
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Nikita Khrushchev
The first woman in space was named:
Valentina Tereshkova
Margaret Thatcher
Beyonce
Lady Gaga
Why was the Berlin Wall built in 1961?
To keep the West Berliners from getting into Germany
To protect Germany from a Soviet attack
To keep the East Berliners from leaving to West Berlin
To keep the United States out of Russia
Who was the US President that argued that we needed to contain communism & keep it from spreading into other countries?
Truman
Eisenhower
Lincoln
Nixon
Who was the American President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nixon
Kennedy
Truman
Obama
Trump
All of the following were members of the "Big Three" at Yalta EXCEPT:
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Truman
He came up with the name "Iron Curtain" to describe Soviet control of Eastern Europe:
Churchill
Chamberlain
Hitler
Stalin
The United Nations replaced this organization:
Justice League
AFL-CIO
Free American Kenesyian Enterprise
League of Nations
What was the alliance of countries that agreed that if one nation was attacked by a Soviet nation, everyone in the alliance would declare war against the invading country?
Warsaw Pact
USSR
NATO
Power Pact
True/False: The Iron Curtain is another name for the Berlin Wall
TRUE
FALSE
Who was the current leader of Russia today?
Putin
Gorbachev
Stalin
Yeltsin
Who was the first democratically elected president of Russia?
Putin
Gorbachev
Stalin
Yeltsin
Soviet-friendly governments were overthrown or removed in all of the following countries in 1989 EXCEPT:
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Romania
USSR
Yearly LGBT pride marches began to be held one year after riots at this location in 1969:
Stonewall
Watts
Studio 60
The Statue of Liberty
Native American activists occupied this island in 1969 for nineteen months:
Alcatraz
Angel Island
Creep Island
Korfu
Inspired by the US, this country had major student protests in 1968 that eventually involved workers as well, all striking or boycotting the conservative government:
France
Great Britain
Canada
East Germany
All of the following were African American civil rights activists in the 1960s EXCEPT:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Charles de Gaulle
This woman's book, "The Second Sex", challenged traditional feminine roles:
Emmeline Pankhurst
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Betty Friedan
Which Soviet leader encouraged economic restructuring and openness?
Putin
Gorbachev
Stalin
Yeltsin
Which Soviet leader put up the Berlin Wall?
Gorbachev
Brezhnev
Stalin III
Khrushchev
This Soviet leader wanted to "re-stalinize" the Soviet Union & invaded Afghanistan in 1979
Gorbachev
Brezhnev
Putin
Khrushchev
Which Soviet leader took over after Stalin died?
Gorbachev
Brezhnev
Putin
Khrushchev
The name of the first man on the moon :
Alexander Dubcek
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Robert Zimmerman
This was a place in your home that people could go to avoid the dangers of atomic blasts
Moscow Mules
Duck Ponds
Fallout Shelter
Vault 13
This term refers to a country that is politically and economically dependent on another country
Berlin wall
Iron Curtain
Satellite nations
Marshall Plan
A treaty called __________ was signed by Brezhnev and Nixon that limited ICBM production.
SALT
Versailles
Detente
Marshall
__________ refers to a period of decreasing Cold War tensions.
Detente
Brinkmanship
Mutually Assured Destruction
Total Nuclear Warfare
__________ was the U.S. foreign policy of blocking Soviet influence and stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
Brinkmanship
Mutually Assured Destruction
Detente
The two "Superpower" countries during the Cold War were the United States and ____________________
Cuba
Great Britain
the USSR
France
Czechoslovakia
All of the following countries had a "zone of occupation" in Germany after World War II EXCEPT:
Norway
Great Britain
the USSR
France
Which of the following is an accurate description of the Cold War?
There was never a time when it seemed like nuclear war would happen.
The United States and the Soviet Union exchanged nuclear fire.
The U.S. and USSR were isolationist during the Cold War.
The United States and the Soviet Union fought each other indirectly in the proxy wars of Korea and Vietnam
