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Cold War Revision

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which parallel divided Korea in to North and South

a)

17th

b)

66th

c)

38th

d)

11th

2.

Which organisation coordinated the Western intervention in the Korean War?

a)

NATO

b)

United Nations

c)

League of Nations

d)

Comecon

3.

Which leader wanted to use nuclear weapons in the Korea war?

a)

General MacArthur

b)

President Truman

c)

Mao Zedong

d)

Stalin

4.

Which country launched the first successful telecommunications satellite in 1957?

a)

USA

b)

USSR

c)

China

d)

East Germany

5.

How was the United States involved in the Vietnam War?

a)

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on South Vietnam.

b)

The United States was allied with North Vietnam.

c)

The United States provided economic and limited military aid to prevent the spread of communism.

d)

The United States did not want to get involved in other countries' conflicts.

6.

Study the picture.


Front row left to right: Richard Nixon, President Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev


What is the significance of the event in the picture?

a)

Nikita Khrushchev was building up his military and wanted to observe the military in the United States.

b)

In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet Union leader to visit the United States.

c)

Nikita Khrushchev was building nuclear weapons and wanted to team up with the United States.

d)

This was a meeting of members of Congress to discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis.

7.

How was the Cold War different from previous wars involving the United States?

a)

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.

b)

The Cold War refers to the political and economic tension between the United States and the Soviet Union-not an actual war.

c)

The Cold War was fought in the cold climate region of the Soviet Union, whereas previous wars were fought in warmer climate regions.

d)

The Cold War battles were fought with more modern weaponry since it took place in the 1960s.

8.

Who was ruler of Communist Czechoslovakia in 1967?

a)

Brezhnev

b)

Novotny

c)

Dubcek

d)

Stalin

9.

Who became leader of Czechoslovakia in Jan 1968?

a)

Stalin

b)

Nagy

c)

Dubcek

d)

Kennedy

10.

What did Dubcek promise NOT to do?

a)

Trade with the USA

b)

Execute opponents

c)

Trade with Yugoslavia

d)

Leave the Warsaw Pact

11.

What did Brezhnev's policy become known as?

a)

Truman doctrine

b)

De-Stalinisation

c)

Brezhnev Doctrine

12.

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

a)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

d)

Inchon Invasion

e)

Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

13.

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?

a)

from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

b)

from US spy satellites

c)

from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

d)

the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba

e)

from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

14.
What was the name for the 1955 alliance of Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe  that were the counterpart to the western alliance?
a)
NATO
b)
Warsaw Pact
c)
European Alliance
d)
Iron Curtain
15.
What program aided the rebuilding of Western Europe?
a)
Truman Doctrine
b)
NATO
c)
Warsaw Pact
d)
Marshall Plan
16.

What did Khrushchev mean by peaceful coexistence?

a)

That the USA and USSR would get along

b)

That the USA and USSR would not get along

c)

That they were going to have a peace conference

d)

That they would talk about each other behind their backs

17.

In what year was the Hungarian Uprising

a)

1954

b)

1955

c)

1956

d)

1957

18.
What was the reaction of the Soviet Union?
a)
there was none
b)
500, 000 warsaw pact troops, 70 killed
c)
1000 tanks 40, 000 killed
d)
70 tanks 400 killed
19.

This first conference held in February of 1945 showed agreement and compromise with the "Big-Three"

a)

Yalta Conference

b)

Munich Conference

c)

Potsdam Conference

d)

WWII Conference

20.
Who was the president of the USA at the Yalta conference?
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Truman
c)
Bush
21.
What had changed since Yalta for the start of the Potsdam conference
a)
Appeasement had ended
b)
Poland had been captured
c)
USA had tested atomic bomb
d)
Communism had failed