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Cold War

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which action has come to symbolize the end of the Cold War?

a)

establishing the Peace Corps

b)

achieving a truce in the Korean War

c)

tearing down the Berlin Wall

d)

improving United States relations with China

2.

They believe that markets are efficient and should thus function without interference, and the role of the state is to regulate and protect them.

a)

Communists

b)

Socialists

c)

Capitalists

d)

Democrats

3.

It is a economic and social system in which all (or nearly all) property and resources are collectively owned by a classless society and not by individual citizens

a)

Socialism

b)

Communism

c)

Capitalism

d)

Fascism

4.

Russian Leader who began a socialist movement in Russia under communist control, it was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Vladimir Lenin

c)

Vladimir Putin

d)

Benito Mussolini

5.

At the end of World War II, Germany was divided into four zones, each occupied by either the United States, Great Britain, France, or the Soviet Union.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Germany's capital city, Berlin, was also divided and occupied by the United States, Great Britain, France, or the Soviet Union

a)

True

b)

False

7.

It was a barrier or division to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.

a)

Berlin airlift

b)

Russian blockade

c)

Berlin wall

d)

Iron curtain

8.

A system of air transport created by British and U.S. to supply the Western-occupied sectors of the city

a)

Russian blockade

b)

Iron curtain

c)

Berlin airlift

9.

It was constructed in 1961 to keep East Germans from fleeing their Communist state.

a)

Iron blockade

b)

The Berlin Wall

c)

Berlin Airlift

d)

Iron border

10.

They was the first introducer of the nuclear weapons on July 16, 1945.

a)

Italy

b)

Japan

c)

USA

d)

Soviet Union

11.

Why was so important for the USA and the Soviet Union to explore the space?

a)

necessary for national security

b)

symbolic of technological and ideological superiority.

c)

to demonstrate who was the best

d)

all are correct

12.

Who launched the first satellite to be hurled into orbit around the Earth.

a)

the USA

b)

the Soviet Union

c)

Japan

d)

Germany

13.

He became the first man on the moon.

a)

Neil Armstrong

b)

Apollo 11

c)

Sputnik