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WorksheetsAP 16 - Cold War
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
The Atlantic Charter was the founding document behind what entity?
The World Bank
The International Monetary Fund
The World Court
The European Union
The United Nations
The Percentages Agreement signed between Stalin and Churchill dealt with
Yugoslavia's future under Tito
the Political future of Poland
Spheres of influence in Eastern Europe
the question of postwar reparations
the opening of a second front by 1944
The Truman Doctrine came about as a direct result of
the conflict over Iran
remaining issues from the Potsdam conference
the Presence of Soviet Troops in Poland
the issue of the status of Berlin
Britain's withdrawal from Greece
During the "Prague Spring" of 1968, Czechoslovakia attempted to
break completely free of the influence of the Soviet Union
end military links with the Warsaw Pact
introduce a capitalist economy
allow greater personal liberties
end the practice of forced food exports to the Soviet Union
All of the following are true concerning the student revolts in Paris in 1968 EXCEPT
they involved student organizations with differing ideological agendas
they stemmed from overcrowding in French universities
they helped spark a general strike by French workers
the caused the fall of Charles de Gaulle's government
they were partly a reaction to the Vietnam War
Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika program
ended the practice of central economic planning
failed to improve the standard of living
provided the economic foundation for improved foreign ties with the West
focused on heavy industry at the expense of consumer products
was primarily aimed at addressing the extreme shortage of housing
In the immediate post-World War II Period, most Western European States
continued to limit their spending on social service programs
expanded social services only for the poor and elderly
began to scale back on their more generous entitlement programs
greatly expanded their social service programs for all their citizens
focused on industrial expansion at the expense of social spending
The formation of the Warsaw Pact in 1955 was a sign that
war was believed to be imminent on the continent
the Soviet Union saw great military potential in the nations of Eastern Europe
the Berlin Wall was ineffective
the Soviet Union was concerned about the advent of NATO in 1949
the Soviet Union viewed the United States with disdain
A key factor contributing to the development of the Cold War in Eastern Europe was
raids by American troops pursuing German Nazi war criminals into areas of the former Third Reich under Russian control.
the domination of Austrian and Italian politics by popular pro-Communist parties.
the withdrawal of victorious Russian armies from lands conqured during the campaign against Nazism
Stalin's desire to establish pro-Soviet governments int he countries of Eastern Europe to serve as a buffer zone against poissible western attacks on the Soviet Union
the threat to continued instability by the rise of neo-fascist parties
Truman and his Western European allies responded to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948 by
building the Berlin Wall
airlifting supplies into Berlin
bombing Moscow.
sending a UN force to reopen the access routes.
threatening nuclear war
An overall effect of the Korean War on the Cold War was
the Soviet Union's domination over all of Southeast Asia.
the end of American and Soviet involvement in Asian political affairs.
the reinforcement of the American determination to "contain" Soviet power.
America spending less on defense since it had superiority in modern weapons
the continued willingness to use limited nuclear weapons in local wars.
The policy created in 1947 and used by the Americans against Communism was called
massive retaliation.
containment.
appeasement
curtailment.
mutually assured destruction (MAD).
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with
improved communications between the US and the Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war.
the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
the United States overthrowing Cuba's Soviet-supported government.
John Kennedy backing down to the threats of Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro giving up his military authority in the Cuban government, although he retained political control.
African independence parties were usually led by
Western-educated intellectuals.
unemployed urban workers.
Moscow-trained Communists.
disgruntled peasants, fearful of being besieged by western agricultural surpluses.
religious leaders, both Christian and Muslim
The Great Leap Forward was
Stalin's stated philosophy for his last five-year plan.
the radicalization of the feminist movement.
Mao Zedong's effort to achieve a classless society and the final stage of communism.
he missile race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Mao Zedong's New Economic Policy, modeled on Lenin's economic reforms in the early 1920s.
In her path-breaking text, The Second Sex, the influential French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argued that
women should renounce all contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes
women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings.
the Second World War had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males.
a "sexual revolution" was impossible and discouraged women outside of France from taking up her ideas
that there was absolutely no hope for improving the lives of women any time soon
