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the Cold War

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Result of Soviets trying to force the West to leave Berlin.

a)

Cuban Missile Crisis

b)

Berlin Airlift

c)

Vietnam War

d)

Korean War

2.

Point was to grant economic aid to countries threatened by communism

a)

Brezhnev Doctrine

b)

COMECON

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Truman Doctrine

3.

Motivation Soviet leaders had in wanting to control Eastern Europe after WW2

a)

to expand territory

b)

to let them choose their own path

c)

to create a buffer zone of friendly governments

d)

to help the West

4.

Country that didn't need Soviet help to keep a Communist government in control

a)

Poland

b)

Hungary

c)

Yugoslavia

d)

Czechoslovakia

5.

U.S. & Great Britain wanted this for liberated nations of Eastern Europe

a)

free elections to be held

b)

communism to win

c)

a focus on agriculture

d)

they didn't care

6.

Country that became Communist in 1949

a)

Soviet Union

b)

United States

c)

Afghanistan

d)

China

7.

If South Vietnam was lost to communism

a)

the United States would celebrate

b)

other Asian countries would also fall to communism

c)

Great Britain would become communist too

d)

China would become democratic

8.

Another name for NATO

a)

the Atlantic Pact

b)

the Warsaw Pact

c)

the Marshall Plan

d)

the Truman Doctrine

9.

Chinese Communist leader

a)

Ho Chi Minh

b)

Mao Zedong

c)

Brezhnev

d)

Chiang Kai-shek

10.

Chinese Communists' economic program

a)

the Cultural Revolution

b)

the Great Leap Forward

c)

the Five Year Plans

d)

the New Deal

11.

Confrontation b/n U.S. & USSR that came close to starting a nuclear war

a)

Cuban Missile Crisis

b)

Great Leap Forward

c)

Berlin Airlift

d)

Vietnam War

12.

agreement where Vietnam was divided into two territories

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

NATO

c)

Geneva Peace Accords

d)

Great Leap Forward

13.

Soviet Union could intervene if communism was threatened in another Communist nation

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Great Leap Forward

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Brezhnev Doctrine

14.

Economic assistance for Eastern European states from the Soviet Union

a)

the Warsaw Pact

b)

the Marshall Plan

c)

Berlin Airlift

d)

COMECON

15.

Communist party leader in Vietnam

a)

Ho Chi Minh

b)

Ngo Din Diem

c)

Mao Zedong

d)

Chiang Kai-shek

16.

Helped end the Soviet blockade

a)

the Truman Doctrine

b)

the Berlin Airlift

c)

the Great Leap Forward

d)

the Geneva Peace Accords

17.

Countries using substitutes to fight each other

a)

proxy wars

b)

the Berlin Airlift

c)

civil wars

d)

economic wars