WorksheetsThe End of the Cold War
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 27mins
Who was the last Soviet premier (leader)?
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Borat Sagdiyev
Which of these events led to the breakup of the Soviet Union?
The arms race & government overspending
An attempt to overthrow the government by pro-democratic forces
Democratic reforms brought on by Mikhail Gorbachev
All of these
Glasnost is best characterized as
a form of re-Stalinization
a restructuring of the economy
a form of central planning
a form of political liberalization
The Berlin Wall fell in
1989
1988
1990
1991
The Soviet Union officially fell in
1991
1992
1989
1990
Lyndon Johnson was known for his involvement in programs to help
build up the nuclear arms stockpile against the USSR
end the Cold War
give opportunities to the poor and minorities
the American space program flourish as NASA became powerful
Detente is a time of easing tensions or strained relations especially between two nations.
True
False
While presidents Ford and Carter both worked with the Soviet Union to continue Nixon's arms reduction talks, President Reagan took a "hard line" calling the Soviet Union the
"axis of evil"
"evil empire"
"epitome of evil"
The Soviet Union made a huge financial blunder by invading what country, which hurt its economy?
Iran
Afghanistan
India
People living in the Soviet empire became increasing frustrated with the poor economy during the 1960s-1980s, a period called the
Progressive Era
Era of Good Feelings
Era of Stagnation
During the Khrushchev era (1956-1964) the Soviet Union
rapidly created a consumer economy
launched Sputnik into space
became democratic
sought to join NATO
Thatcher created a huge amount of unemployment. From 1982 to 1987 there was over 3 million people unemployed in the UK.
True
False
What does this image represent?
The Great Leap Forward
Tiananmen Square
The Long March
VJ Day
When Mao died in 1976, who became the leader of China?
Hirohito
Sun Yixian
Ho Chi Minh
Den Xiaoping
Why was the one child policy needed?
China was at war
It wasn't needed
Concerns about running out of enough food or electricity
China's population was nearly 1 billion
The use of political and military power by the Soviet Union in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was based on a desire to
gain control of warm-water ports
establish democratic governments
preserve communist control
spread the Eastern Orthodox Christian faiths
Nations such as Hungary that were dominated by the Soviet Union after World War II were most often referred to as
districts
satellites
mandates
cartels
Immediately after World War II, which country exerted political and economic control over Poland, Hungary, and Romania?
France
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
In the Japanese economy, a large financial and industrial corporation
zaibatsu
guerilla tactics
oligarchy
collectivization
a common currency (money) used by several EU
Euro
Pound
Dollar
Franc
What was the EU’s predecessor?
Common Market
ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community)
Euratom (European Atomic Energy Community)
EEC (European Economic Community)
Which event didn't take place during the Cold War?
First man landed on the moon
The Iron Curtain
The formation of NATO
Bill Clinton became President of the United States
Religious tension between Christians in the south and Muslim immigrants in the north led to civil war that devastated the local economy and split the African nation of
Liberia
Nigeria
Sudan
Ivory Coast
____________ was the leader of Libya when the UN Security Council voted to authorize military action against his oppressive regime.
el-Abidine
al-Qaddafi
al-Maliki
Ahmadinejad
In Southeast Asia, the people in the isolated country of __________ live under brutal military rule and recently experienced a military coup.
Myanmar
Thailand
Indonesia
Borneo
This area of Canada has sought independence multiple times and predominantly speaks French.
British Colombia
Nova Scotia
Acadia
Quebec
