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Cold War

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

State of tension among nations, without armed conflict

a)

Apartheid

b)

Cold War

c)

WWII

d)

Vietnam War

2.

Ended censorship in the Soviet Union

a)

Glasnost

b)

Perestroika

c)

Apartheid

d)

Cease-Fire

3.

Strict separation of the races in South Africa

a)

Segregation

b)

Perestroika

c)

Apartheid

d)

Glasnost

4.

Halt in Fighting

a)

Cease-Fire

b)

Treaty

c)

Armistice

d)

Commune

5.

The restructuring of the Soviet government and economy

a)

Collectivization

b)

Commune

c)

Glasnost

d)

Perestroika

6.

Community in which physical needs are provided in exchange for work at assigned jobs

a)

Glasnost

b)

Commune

c)

Collectivization

d)

Apartheid

7.

Pooling of peasant land & labor in an attempt to increase efficiency

a)

Collectivazation

b)

Commune

c)

Cold War

d)

Perestroika

8.

Leader of communist China

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Mao Zedong

c)

Ho Chi Minh

d)

Kim Il Sung

9.

Organized strikes, boycotts, & marches protesting apartheid in South Africa

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Nelson Mandela

d)

African National Congress

10.

Made attempts in the 1980s for reforms in the Soviet Union

a)

Ho Chi Minh

b)

Mao Zedong

c)

Mikhail Gorbachev

d)

Mikahail Gorbachev

11.

Declared that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in Europe & around the world

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Mikhail Gorbachev

c)

Harry Truman

d)

FDR

12.

Leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Nelson Mandela

c)

Kim Il Sung

d)

African National Congress

13.

Leader of the communists in the Vietnam War

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Kim Il Sung

c)

Mikhail Gorbachev

d)

Ho Chi Minh

14.

Leader of the communists in the Korean War

a)

Kim Il Sung

b)

Ho Chi Minh

c)

Mikhail Gorbachev

d)

Mao Zedong

15.

The first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth

a)

Little Boy

b)

Sputnik I

c)

Sputnik III

d)

Fat Man

16.

Where troops occupy either side of the 38th parallel in Korea

a)

DMZ (demilitarized zone)

b)

Great Leap Forward

c)

Tiananmen Square

d)

Neutral Zone

17.

Time when each side in the Cold War armed itself to withstand an attack by the other

a)

Cold War

b)

Cultural Revolution

c)

Nuclear Arms Race

d)

Great Leap Forward

18.

When thousands of demonstrators were killed or wounded in Beijing demanding more political & economic freedom

a)

Great Leap Forward

b)

Nuclear Arms Race

c)

Cold War

d)

Tiananmen Square Massacre

19.

Mao's program that urged people to make a superhuman effort to increase farm & industrial output

a)

Great Leap Forward

b)

Cultural Revolution

20.

Mao’s goal to purge China of “bourgeois” or non-revolutionary tendencies

a)

Great Leap Forward

b)

Cultural Revolution

21.

Who sided with North Korea

a)

Soviet Union

b)

USA

22.

South Korea sided with

a)

USA

b)

Soviet Union

23.

North Vietnam was supported by who?

a)

USA

b)

USSR

24.

South Vietnam was supported by who?

a)

USA

b)

USSR

25.

US President who pulled troops out of Vietnam

a)

Gerald Ford

b)

JFK

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Richard Nixon