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WorksheetsAP World Review Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 36mins
Which of the following was a primary reason for the United States intervention in the Korean War in 1950-1953?
To end apartheid and promote equality in Korea
To rescue Korea from the Japanese Imperialist Army
To stop the spread of Communism and Kim Il Sung
To promote the power of the United States globally
Which of these was integral in beginning a "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union?
The United States was involved in all of the following attempts to combat communism EXCEPT....
They supported the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam Conflict
They overthrew the government of Guatemala and set up a pro-US Government
They funded assassinations of communist leaders in Africa and Latin America
They assassinated John F. Kennedy in order to place a more subservient president in office
Which crisis saw the United States emerging as more important diplomatically and internationally as it stopped Great Britain and France from intervening to protect its economic interests.
MAD, or Mutually Assured Destruction, was an acronym coined for the destruction that would be caused world-wide by...
Nuclear Attacks
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
Agent Orange
Napalm
What was the strategy adopted that attempted to stop the spread of Communism?
Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward created agricultural communes to...
help the bourgeoisie prosper
"rectify thinking through labor"
make agriculture more efficient
grow extra food for Taiwan
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when ...
The United States attempted to invade Cuba and create a revolution to overthrow Fidel Castro, but it failed.
the Soviet Union fired missiles at Cuba a long held ally of the United States.
the U.S. learned that the Soviet Union had built missile launching pads in Cuba, very close to the state of Florida.
the Soviet Union fired missiles at the U.S. from Cuba.
The "American War/Vietnam War" began because...
The United States wanted to stop the spread of communism.
The United States wanted to end the enslavement of the Vietnamese population by the Japanese during WWII.
The French had begun to spread capitalism and freedom to communist countries, but ran out of funding to continue in Vietnam.
The occupation after World War II led the nation to be divided in half, much like Berlin and Germany.
The dividing line between North and South Vietnam established in 1954 at the Geneva Convention.
Miss Saigon and Gigi Van Tranh
38th parallel and Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Dien Bien Phu and the Ho Chih Minh Trail
17th parallel and a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
On this map during the Cold War the area in Green would be known as:
Democratic, or 1st World nations
Communist, or 2nd World Nations
Non-Aligned, or 3rd World Nations
Member states of the United Nations
Apartheid was...
the policy of segregation in South Africa
the government for Indians in South Africa
the language of whites in South Africa.
the policy integration in South Africa
Pakistan and Bangladesh are mostly ____ while India is mostly _____.
Muslim, Hindu
Buddhist, Sikh
Hindu, Buddhist
Christian, Muslim
Indira Gandhi is famous because of...
helping the British fight World War II and her role in the Bengali Famine
the removal of British control from the Indian subcontinent through non-violent protest
abolishing caste distinctions and discrimination once in power as the first Sikh president
her controversial time as one of the first democratically elected female heads of state
A negative effect of the partitioning of India in 1947 was that
foreign rule was reestablished in India
Hinduism became the only religion practiced in India
the government policy of nonalignment further divided Indian society
civil unrest, territorial disputes, and religious conflicts continued throughout the region
What was one reason that India was divided into two nations in 1947?
Indian leaders disagreed about India’s role in the United Nations.
Great Britain feared a unified India would be a military threat.
The Soviet Union insisted that India should have a communist government.
Differences between the Hindus and the Muslims created religious conflict.
Union
Which group of reform-minded revolutionaries overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1979?
Sandinistas
Ortegas
CIA
Serbs
These groups were similar as they both supported movements for democracy.
Great Leap Forward and Four Modernizations
Polish Solidarity and Tiananmen Square Protesters
Three Principles and Hungarian Revolution
Opium War and Great Leap Forward
The actions of Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Léopold Senghor, and Julius Nyerere were most closely associated with
a rise in nationalism in several African countries
the end of apartheid in South Africa
a resurgence of colonialism in east Africa
the revival of Islam in northern Africa
The term "Pan–Africanism" can best be defined as a movement whose purpose is to
promote African unity
support cultural diversity
encourage European investment in Africa
advocate a return to colonial conditions
A similarity of the goals of Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi is that both leaders wanted to
secure political power for the majority of the people
encourage a greater degree of industrialization
improve the economy by expanding governmental control
gain independence from the Soviet Union
F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end the
foreign control of the diamond mines
discriminatory policy of apartheid
anarchy in Somalia
Boer War
Since the late 1970s, which measure has the Chinese government taken to reduce the effects of overpopulation?
supported a policy of forced migration to other nations
reduced food production
emphasized the teachings of Confucius
imposed a one-child policy that limits family size
In China, Deng Xiaoping’s Four Modernizations led to
a decrease in industrialization
a decreased interest in investments by foreign businesses
an increase in the emphasis on collective farming
an increased use of free-market practices
Which of the following describes Japan after WWII?
Punished with reparations that crippled the economy.
Engaged in an economic and political alliance with the United States after its occupation ended.
Refused to accept defeat and engaged in another, more regionally-based conflict.
Created a constitution with a strong military arm, allowing for its defense against China and North Korea.
The Bandung Conference...
Sought to unify nations that did not wish to align themselves with the USSR or the USA.
Ended the Cold War and stopped nuclear proliferation
Set up the United States as Japan's official defensive military
Allowed for the Green Revolution in India and Pakistan
Che Guevara was...
an Argentinian who became a communist leader in Cuba before attempting to go global with communism.
a revolutionary hero to all democratic people, and to this day continues to have t-shirts printed with his face on them.
an undercover operative who exposed the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Iran-Contra Affair to the public.
a religious reformer who created the Rastafari Movement that sought Pan-African Unity.
The current political boundaries of African nations have been most influenced by
the topographic features of the continent
the patterns of European colonialism
traditional African language groups
the location of ancient African tribal kingdoms
What African nation gained independence from France after a violent eight year war?
Algeria
South Africa
Egypt
Ethiopia
What is the context of this cartoon?
Stalin wants to stop the success of US Aid to European nations
Stalin wants to win the Cold War at any cost
Stalin wants to destroy the United States with nuclear weapons
Stalin's moustache is pretty epic
Where did the Tai Dam refugees from the wars in Vietnam end up resettling in 1975?
North Vietnam, as the majority of them had communist sympathies
The Middle East, setting up an ethnic enclave
Indonesia, as it was most culturally similar to their experiences living in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
The state of Iowa in the United States under the direction of governor Robert Ray
