WorksheetsCold War Test Review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
What 2 countries had an intense non-violent struggle that began after WWII and ended in 1991?
Germany and the U.S.
Turkey and Greece
The U.S. and the Soviet Union
Great Britain and France
What post WWII Conference Divided Germany and Berlin into 4 occupational zones -increasing tension in the Cold War?
Yalta Conference
Versailles Conference
Paris Peace Accord
Geneva Accords
What is the imaginary border between non-communist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe called?
17th Parallel
38th Parallel
The Berlin Wall
The Iron Curtain
What U.S. foreign policy sent military and economic aid because of the fear that Greece and Turkey would fall to communism?
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Truman Doctrine
Space Race
In response to the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union formed…
Berlin Conference
Axis Alliance
NAFTA
Warsaw Pact
What is Sputnik?
First artificial satellite launched in space
First space mission around the moon
Mission for the first moon landing
First dog in space
What country successfully launched Sputnik, starting the space race?
The U.S.
Soviet Union
Korea
China
This was built to stop Eastern Europeans from fleeing to go west.
Great Wall of China
Silk Road
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
What was the reason that the US launched the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Keep China out of Korea
The U.S. was worried that the Cuba would become an ally of the Soviet Union
North Korea attacked South Korea in order to make all of Korea communist.
Cuba was under Soviet attack.
What event began when the Soviet Union had placed Nuclear Missiles in Cuba? The US wanted them removed
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Korean War
Vietnam War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
How did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?
U.S. established a naval quarantine/blockade around Cuba.
Air patrol covered larger area.
The Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba
All of the answers are correct
Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party during the early Cold War?
Diem
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Al Yanukovych
What two wars are considered proxy wars of the Cold War?
Korea and China
China and Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam and Korea
Vietnam and Bay of Pigs Invasion
Who helped South Korea fight against communism?
The United Nations
Cuba
France
Vietnam
True or False: Korea is still divided at the 38th parallel. North still communists/south non-communist.
True
False
The U.S. belief that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to communism others around it would fall as well...
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
The Domino Theory
NATO
The US tried to help this country maintain Vietnam as a colony after WWII?
France
Japan
Great Britain
Germany
Who was the leader of the communist rebels fighting against the colonizers in Vietnam?
Buddhist Monks
Mao Zedong
Diem
Ho Chi Minh
What did the US use to clear the jungles in Vietnam?
Atomic Bombs and Naval Blockades.
Agent Orange and Naval Blockades
Napalm and Atomic Bombs
Napalm and Agent Orange
In what way were the Korean and Vietnam wars similar?
Both countries fell to communism.
Both countries were liberated from communism.
Both wars fought as a result of differing political ideologies during the Cold War
Both wars were fought for China.
What Soviet Leader made changes in the Soviet Union because people of the Soviet Union wanted democracy. Both the people and the country needed change.
Vladimir Lenin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Putin
