WorksheetsThe Cold War
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 20mins
Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis "scare" Americans
Communist Cuba was taking over American businesses
The Bay of Pigs invasion almost failed
Soviets were financing Cuba
Cuba was within nuclear missile shooting range of American cities
Why weren't nuclear weapons used during the Cold War?
The Domino Theory
The Marshall Plan
Mutually assured destruction
Strategic defensive initiative
What happened to many eastern European countries after WWII?
They were dependent on the Marshall Plan
They developed democratic governments
They became economic world powers
They became Soviet satellite states
What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviets attempted to install nuclear weapons in Haiti
The Soviets invaded Hungary
The US tried to overthrow the Cuban communist government
A meeting in the Soviet Union to develop the Warsaw pact
Why is the Cuban Missile Crisis so important?
It was the closest we have come to total nuclear war
It was a signal to the world that Cuba was vulnerable
It helped create NATO and the Warsaw Pact
It created an alliance between the Cubans and the Americans
Churchill called the imaginary line between Soviet satellite states and western Europe.....
NATO
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
The Great Wall
The Cold War was between the US and
Korea
China
Germany
The Soviet Union
Which two nations emerged as superpowers after WWII?
Soviet Union and Germany
US and Great Britain
France and Great Britain
US and Soviet Union
Who was President of the United States at the beginning of the Cold War?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
What war did the Cold War follow?
World War 1
World War 2
Spanish-American War
Civil War
I wanted to find Communists in the US.
My work was part of the Red Scare.
My ideas became unpopular.
Who am I?
Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?
Cuban Missile Crisis
end of the Vietnam War
collapse of the Soviet Union
fall of the Berlin Wall
Who was the last Soviet premier (leader)?
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Borat Sagdiyev
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From the above reading, how could glasnost and perestroika be described?
What is the domino theory?
One country falling to Communism will quickly end the red scare.
One country falling to the Dark Side will quickly lead to other nearby countries falling as well.
One country falling to Democracy will quickly lead to other nearby countries falling as well.
One country falling to Communism will quickly lead to other nearby countries falling as well.
Who became Cuba's Communist dictator in 1959?
Infidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
What did U.S. spy planes discover in Cuba?
Soviet air force bases
Soviet nuclear missile bases
Soviet ice cream plants producing only one flavor, "Regular"
German nuclear missile bases
Which political leader introduced programs that moved the USSR away from totalitarianism, and increased economic freedom and political rights?
Mikhail Gorbechev
Joseph Stalin
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Which new Soviet policy granted the people of the USSR more decision making power and greater access to private ownership of businesses?
perestroika
glasnost
democratization
shock therapy
Which of Gorbachev's programs created more openness, more public participation in government, and greater individual rights were given to Soviet citizens?
glasnost
perestroika
democratizatsiya
shock therapy
