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AP 16 - Cold War

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

The Atlantic Charter was the founding document behind what entity?

a)

The World Bank

b)

The International Monetary Fund

c)

The World Court

d)

The European Union

e)

The United Nations

2.

The Percentages Agreement signed between Stalin and Churchill dealt with

a)

Yugoslavia's future under Tito

b)

the Political future of Poland

c)

Spheres of influence in Eastern Europe

d)

the question of postwar reparations

e)

the opening of a second front by 1944

3.

The Truman Doctrine came about as a direct result of

a)

the conflict over Iran

b)

remaining issues from the Potsdam conference

c)

the Presence of Soviet Troops in Poland

d)

the issue of the status of Berlin

e)

Britain's withdrawal from Greece

4.

During the "Prague Spring" of 1968, Czechoslovakia attempted to

a)

break completely free of the influence of the Soviet Union

b)

end military links with the Warsaw Pact

c)

introduce a capitalist economy

d)

allow greater personal liberties

e)

end the practice of forced food exports to the Soviet Union

5.

All of the following are true concerning the student revolts in Paris in 1968 EXCEPT

a)

they involved student organizations with differing ideological agendas

b)

they stemmed from overcrowding in French universities

c)

they helped spark a general strike by French workers

d)

the caused the fall of Charles de Gaulle's government

e)

they were partly a reaction to the Vietnam War

6.

Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika program

a)

ended the practice of central economic planning

b)

failed to improve the standard of living

c)

provided the economic foundation for improved foreign ties with the West

d)

focused on heavy industry at the expense of consumer products

e)

was primarily aimed at addressing the extreme shortage of housing

7.

In the immediate post-World War II Period, most Western European States

a)

continued to limit their spending on social service programs

b)

expanded social services only for the poor and elderly

c)

began to scale back on their more generous entitlement programs

d)

greatly expanded their social service programs for all their citizens

e)

focused on industrial expansion at the expense of social spending

8.

The formation of the Warsaw Pact in 1955 was a sign that

a)

war was believed to be imminent on the continent

b)

the Soviet Union saw great military potential in the nations of Eastern Europe

c)

the Berlin Wall was ineffective

d)

the Soviet Union was concerned about the advent of NATO in 1949

e)

the Soviet Union viewed the United States with disdain

9.

A key factor contributing to the development of the Cold War in Eastern Europe was

a)

raids by American troops pursuing German Nazi war criminals into areas of the former Third Reich under Russian control.

b)

the domination of Austrian and Italian politics by popular pro-Communist parties.

c)

the withdrawal of victorious Russian armies from lands conqured during the campaign against Nazism

d)

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

e)

the threat to continued instability by the rise of neo-fascist parties

10.

Truman and his Western European allies responded to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948 by

a)

building the Berlin Wall

b)

airlifting supplies into Berlin

c)

bombing Moscow.

d)

sending a UN force to reopen the access routes.

e)

threatening nuclear war

11.

An overall effect of the Korean War on the Cold War was

a)

the Soviet Union's domination over all of Southeast Asia.

b)

the end of American and Soviet involvement in Asian political affairs.

c)

the reinforcement of the American determination to "contain" Soviet power.

d)

America spending less on defense since it had superiority in modern weapons

e)

the continued willingness to use limited nuclear weapons in local wars.

12.

The policy created in 1947 and used by the Americans against Communism was called

a)

massive retaliation.

b)

containment.

c)

appeasement

d)

curtailment.

e)

mutually assured destruction (MAD).

13.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with

a)

improved communications between the US and the Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war.

b)

the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

c)

the United States overthrowing Cuba's Soviet-supported government.

d)

John Kennedy backing down to the threats of Nikita Khrushchev

e)

Fidel Castro giving up his military authority in the Cuban government, although he retained political control.

14.

African independence parties were usually led by

a)

Western-educated intellectuals.

b)

unemployed urban workers.

c)

Moscow-trained Communists.

d)

disgruntled peasants, fearful of being besieged by western agricultural surpluses.

e)

religious leaders, both Christian and Muslim

15.

The Great Leap Forward was

a)

Stalin's stated philosophy for his last five-year plan.

b)

the radicalization of the feminist movement.

c)

Mao Zedong's effort to achieve a classless society and the final stage of communism.

d)

he missile race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

e)

Mao Zedong's New Economic Policy, modeled on Lenin's economic reforms in the early 1920s.

16.

In her path-breaking text, The Second Sex, the influential French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argued that

a)

women should renounce all contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes

b)

women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings.

c)

the Second World War had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males.

d)

a "sexual revolution" was impossible and discouraged women outside of France from taking up her ideas

e)

that there was absolutely no hope for improving the lives of women any time soon