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WorksheetsCold War
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
What was one way
that the Soviet Union attempted to influence the politics of Africa? (7-5.3)
It provided the weapons needed to gain revenge on European colonists
It destroyed African nations that were democratic
It offered Africans scholarships to study in the Soviet Union
It offered African governments membership into the Warsaw Pact
This was the U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances.
Appeasement
Containment
Scorched Earth
Operation Market Garden
Name the theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
Continuation Theory
Inundation Theory
Domino Theory
Roadblock Theory
This was a Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a communist state in Cuba.
Noriega
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Manny Hernandez
Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew the Nationalists and established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.
Benito Mussolini
Mao Zedong
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh
Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control.
Communist Manifesto
Democratic Republic Alliance
Satellite Nations
Iron Curtain
A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
The Berlin Wall
The Soviet Blockade
The Politburo
Iron Curtain
Name the structure separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West.
Berlin Wall
The Deutche Wall
Iron Curtain
Communist Bloc
Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam used guerrilla warfare to fight anti-communists during the 1950's and 1960's?
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Sun Yat-Sen
Fidel Castro
What was a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War?
The Red Guard
The Red Army
Vietcong
Sandinista
What was the international crisis called in 1962, between the US and the USSR, when the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and announced a naval blockade of Cuba?
Cuban Standoff
Bay of Pigs
Sandinista Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
What is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research?
NOAA
NATO
NASA
FEMA
What was the first satellite launched by the Soviet Union in October of 1957 called?
Sputnik
Chutney
Soyez
Apollo
A 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the U.S., for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
Arms Race
Appeasement Race
The Glasnost Race
Space Race
What was the "Hot Spot" country in the Cold War that had been divided at the 38th parallel into North (Communist) and South (non-Communist) which would have conflict from 1950-1953?
Korea
China
Cuba
Nicaragua
Name the "Hot Spot" Cold War country that was divided into a North (Communist) and South (non-Communist) and in which the North under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh eventually took over completely as one communist country.
Korea
Vietnam
Laos
China
What was the international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation that replaced the League of Nations?
League of Nations
League of Democracy
NATO
United Nations
What happened to Germany after WWII?
It was partitioned into two separate countries
It became communist after WWII
It was split up between France and Great Britain
It held democratic elections and became socialists
What was the military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air?
The Berlin Convoy
Operation Market Garden
Operation Schildkrote
The Berlin Airlift
The Marshall Plan was supposed to
prevent Soviet involvement in Africa
restore economic stability to Europe after WWI
build the military of Asian countries after WWI
make the Soviet Union stronger than Western European countries
What did the NATO countries pledge?
to halt the spread of communism in Europe
to colonize Africa
to build as many nuclear weapons has possible
to remove all dictators from power
A superpower is an extremely powerful nation with more strength than other nations. The two superpowers during the Cold War were
Great Britain and France
the Soviet Union and the United States
the United States and Great Britain
the Soviet Union and Germany
Which of the following describes the composition of the Security Council of the United Nations?
15 elected members
10 permanent and 5 elected members
5 permanent and 10 elected members
only European nations
What organization opposed NATO?
League of Nations
CENTO
Warsaw Pact
SEATO
How did the Cold War get its name?
There were no actual armed wars between the superpowers.
Most of the armed conflicts were fought in the winter.
The spread of communism was contained in Europe.
The Soviet Union was a cold country.
Conflicts between the Communist Soviet Union and its democratic allies in World War II resulted in the division of Berlin. Where did the city of Berlin lie?
West Germany
The Soviet Union
A neutral zone
East Germany
The Soviet Union supported the political philosophy of __________________.
Democracy
Monarchy
Communism
Fascism
Government structure in which there are no effective restrictions on government actions
Democracy
Representative Government
Unlimited Government
Limited Government
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
An economic system based on private ownership.
Democracy
Socialism
Communism
Capitalism
Allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Churchill, United States - Roosevelt
Superpowers
The Big Three
Triple Alliance
Axis Powers
