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WorksheetsCold War Review
Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 25mins
The ____________ cut off Eastern Europe from the West metaphorically speaking.
The Marshall Plan
The Berlin Airlift
WWII
The Iron Curtain
Which country was partitioned (divided) into 4 zones of occupation after WWII?
Soviet Union
Japan
Germany
Italy
Who made the statement "An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent"?
President Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
President Harry Truman
The main reason for providing aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan was to –
Rebuild the economics of devastated European nations
Encourage Soviet withdrawal from the United Nations
Create disagreements between western European nations
Guarantee American factories a supply of cheap raw materials
What was the main goal of the United States containment policy?
To become more technologically advanced than the Soviet Union
To prevent the spread of Communism around the world
To provide more support for science and math education
To support the establishment of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Trade Organization
North American Tournament Organization
North American Telecommunications Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Why was NATO created?
To promote and unite the producing countries that regulate the amount of oil each country is able to produce.
To promote common economic, foreign, security, and justice policies in all of Europe.
To create a unified military defense with the US and western European countries to protect themselves from another world war and the nuclear threat.
To increase trade and business with the US and western Europe.
What was created by the Soviet Union in response to NATO?
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Wall
Central Powers
The Kremlin
What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
economic alliances
military alliances
social alliances
religious alliances
What is the name of the army of young students that Mao used to enforce policies in the 1960's?
The Red Guard
The Kuomintang
The great Collective
The Alliance for Progress
Who was Mao Zedong?
Leader of the independence movement in Vietnam
Leader of Japan after it became a constitutional monarchy
Leader of the Communists party in China
A Chinese warlord
What was the name of the plan to move China forward to compete globally by focusing on the making of steel and agriculture?
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution
The Tienanmen Square Massacre
The Constitutional Monarchy Movement
During this period of time mentioned, people moved to collectives, what is another name for a collective and what was its purpose?
camp; people sent their children to work on farms
communes; people in villages moved to large pieces of land to jointly focus on crops and making of steel
communes; Mao recruited children for his army and turned them against their parents
committee; places where decisions about communism were made
What was the period of time in which Mao tried to eliminate anyone that criticized him or his government?_______________________________________________________________
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution
The Tienanmen Square Massacre
The Containment Policy
Why did Mao recruit the youth of China?
To join his Red Guards, a group that punished anyone who opposed Communism.
To join his Red Guards, a group that was punished for opposing Communism.
To trick them and place them in the gas chamber
To put them to work in factories
Which political leader introduced programs that moved the USSR away from totalitarianism, and increased economic freedom and political rights?
Mikhail Gorbechev
Joseph Stalin
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
How did the Space Race and arms race contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Both were expensive programs that put a strain on the country's economy.
There were not enough military bases to support the programs.
The US used espionage to steal the technology from both programs.
The USSR did not have the resources to develop the technology needed for the programs.
Which new Soviet policy granted the people of the USSR more decision making power and greater access to private ownership of businesses?
perestroika
glasnost
democratization
shock therapy
Which of Gorbachev's programs created more openness, more public participation in government, and greater individual rights were given to Soviet citizens?
glasnost
perestroika
democratizatsiya
shock therapy
Which of the following is a good example of how Russian/US relations have evolved since the space race ended?
Russia shut down its space programs in the 1970's.
Russia has applauded the US since its takeover of the Russian Space Program in 1972.
Americans/Russians work together on the International Space Station.
Russia has signed a treaty with the US agreeing to never spy on the US using satellites.
Why was America worried about Russia's satellite launch?
They thought that if Russia could launcha a satelite into space, then they could send a nuclear missile at the US
They thought the satellite was really a nuclear bomb
They thought that Russian spies had stolen American satellite secrets
They thought Russia would use the satellite to spy on America
Which of these describes the "Arms Race?"
The United States and Soviet Union competing to make superior sattelites
The US and Soviet Union fighting over space technology
The US and Soviet Union competing to make more powerful nuclear weapons
The population boom competition between the US and Soviet Union
How did the Soviets begin the "Space Race" which started in 1957?
They launched the first ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
They launched the first artificial satellite named Sputnik into space
They created the first space station
They produced the largest hydrogen bomb ever
Why did the launch of Sputnik frighten many in the United States?
It meant the Soviet Union could stop all nuclear attacks sent their way
It made them feel they fell behind the Soviets in technology and they had more powerful nuclear rockets
They believed the USSR would soon declare war on the US
It made Americans feel an impending invasion of US soil was happening
How did the United States work to challenge the Soviet Union in the "Space Race" after Sputnik?
They sent spies to copy Soviet space secrets
War was declared on the Soviet Union
The US put nuclear missiles closer to the Soviet Union
NASA was created and the US spent more on math and science education to make engineers.
What happened in 1969 ending the Space Race?
The US sent is own satellites into Space
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
The US sent the first robotic rover to Mars
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on The Moon
The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev
Breshnev
Kruschev
Stalin
