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WorksheetsThe Cold War Era
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What was the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that came close to starting a nuclear war?
Red Scare
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs
The Manhattan Project
Mao Zedong was the Communist leader of what country?
Vietnan
South Korea
China
Soviet Union
What was Mikhail Gorbachev's initial reforming economic policy in the Soviet Union?
Mein Kampf
Kristallnatch
Gorbachev policy
Perestroika
What was the Great Leap Forward?
Radical program in the Soviet Union to speed up the country's economic growth and reach the final stages of communism
Radical program in China to speed up the country's economic growth and reach the final stages of communism
U.S. foreign policy aimed at resisting the spread of Communism around the globe
Chinese foreign policy aimed at resisting the spread of Communism around the globe
The Cold War was a competition between which two super powers?
United States and Soviet Union
United States and China
Soviet Union and China
Soviet Union and Japan
What does MAD stand for?
Maximum Acceleration Destruction
Mutual Alliance Defense
Moscow Allegiance Demand
Mutual Assured Destruction
What was the symbolic end of the Cold War?
Berlin Wall being torn down
Berlin Airlift
Unification of a Communist Berlin
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union collapsed in what year?
1992
1991
1989
1997
Winston Churchill used what image to describe the division of Europe?
A closed door
The iron curtain
The Grand Canyon
The Steel Fist
Who is the "Father of Communism?"
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx
What was the Marshall Plan designed for?
Restore economic stability in Europe after WWII
Developed a comprehensive military strategy for defense of Canada
Prevent Soviet control in Angola
Retaliate against Soviet agression
Why was the Berlin Wall erected?
Prevent refugees from flooding into West Europe
Protected Soviet military supplies
Provide protection from Japan
Prevent the spread of Communism
The Warsaw Pact sought to do what?
Help Polish Jews economically?
Create a military alliance between the U.S. and other European Western countries
Create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and other European Eastern countries
Create a plan for a reduction of different nuclear weapons
The Korean war is also known as the
Forgotten War
Indochina War
Great War
Unknown War
What was the purpose of the European Economic Community?
Adopt a standard currency
Influence world oil prices
Boycott the Soviet Union
Unify economic policies and eliminate trade barriers
A failed attempt of the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban government is referred to as?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs
The Vietnam War
Castro Invasion
Who was the leader of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What was the purpose of the policy of containment?
Stop the spread of Communism
Stop the Korean War
Stop the spread of Capitialism
Soviet plan to spread Communism in the USSR
American student revolts in the 1960's were mostly in response to what?
Domestic social issues
U.S. foreign policy in Western Europe
U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia
The global arms race
Who was the major Communist lead in North Vietnam?
Kim Jong-un
Mao Zedong
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
