WorksheetsCold War Revision
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which parallel divided Korea in to North and South
17th
66th
38th
11th
Which organisation coordinated the Western intervention in the Korean War?
NATO
United Nations
League of Nations
Comecon
Which leader wanted to use nuclear weapons in the Korea war?
General MacArthur
President Truman
Mao Zedong
Stalin
Which country launched the first successful telecommunications satellite in 1957?
USA
USSR
China
East Germany
How was the United States involved in the Vietnam War?
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on South Vietnam.
The United States was allied with North Vietnam.
The United States provided economic and limited military aid to prevent the spread of communism.
The United States did not want to get involved in other countries' conflicts.
Study the picture.
Front row left to right: Richard Nixon, President Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev
What is the significance of the event in the picture?
Nikita Khrushchev was building up his military and wanted to observe the military in the United States.
In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet Union leader to visit the United States.
Nikita Khrushchev was building nuclear weapons and wanted to team up with the United States.
This was a meeting of members of Congress to discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis.
How was the Cold War different from previous wars involving the United States?
Previous wars were fought between the United States and European countries, and the Cold War was fought between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Cold War refers to the political and economic tension between the United States and the Soviet Union-not an actual war.
The Cold War was fought in the cold climate region of the Soviet Union, whereas previous wars were fought in warmer climate regions.
The Cold War battles were fought with more modern weaponry since it took place in the 1960s.
Who was ruler of Communist Czechoslovakia in 1967?
Brezhnev
Novotny
Dubcek
Stalin
Who became leader of Czechoslovakia in Jan 1968?
Stalin
Nagy
Dubcek
Kennedy
What did Dubcek promise NOT to do?
Trade with the USA
Execute opponents
Trade with Yugoslavia
Leave the Warsaw Pact
What did Brezhnev's policy become known as?
Truman doctrine
De-Stalinisation
Brezhnev Doctrine
The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)
Inchon Invasion
Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)
How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?
from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers
from US spy satellites
from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions
the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba
from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane
What did Khrushchev mean by peaceful coexistence?
That the USA and USSR would get along
That the USA and USSR would not get along
That they were going to have a peace conference
That they would talk about each other behind their backs
In what year was the Hungarian Uprising
1954
1955
1956
1957
This first conference held in February of 1945 showed agreement and compromise with the "Big-Three"
Yalta Conference
Munich Conference
Potsdam Conference
WWII Conference
