WorksheetsCold War & the 21st Century Test Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
___________ was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism
Containment
The New Deal
The Square Deal
Big Stick Diplomacy
Formed at the end of WWII, ____ is a defensive military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European states, the United States, and Canada
NATO
Warsaw Pact
NAFTA
The United Nations
The __________ was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
NATO
NAFTA
UNICEF
The armed communist revolutionaries that fought against the USA in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War
Viet Cong
Nazis
Cossacks
The Immortals
an American foreign policy with the primary goal of containing communist expansion during the Cold War
The Truman Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
Cuban Missile Crisis
Marshall Plan
Which best summarizes the shift in United States foreign policy (like the Marshall Plan) after World War II?
U.S. foreign policy became important to win the war on terrorism
U.S. tax dollars were put to use to support communism
U.S. sought to strengthen Europe to stop spread of communism
U.S. began shifting jobs overseas
founder of Communist China, head of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976
Mao Zedong
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese revolutionary who led the communist North in the Vietnam war against the United States
Ho Chi Minh
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Pol Pot
an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962, it was a complete failure and resulted in the starvation of around 50 million Chinese
Great Leap Forward
The Bolshevik Revolution
Reign of Terror
The New Deal
The war in Korea/Vietnam, the nuclear arms race, space race, and Cuban Missile Crisis were all important events in
the Cold War
WWII
The Gulf War
the War on Terror
The outcome of the Korean War
resulted in North Korea making small gains
resulted in the collapse of North Korea
resulted in North & South Korea being separated at the 38th parallel, just as before
resulted in the unification of Korea
India in the 20th and 21st century has been burdened with religious conflict between _________ & _________
Hindus & Muslims
Terrorists & Buddhists
Communists & Democrats
Fascists & Anarchists
The passage of the USA Patriot Act, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom
the September 11th terror attacks
2008 financial crisis
WWII
the end of the Cold War
How did the face of warfare change in the 21st century?
major threats now come from non-state terrorist organizations
wars were fought in space
standing armies need to be increased because of the nuclear stalemate
It did not
Which is one factor that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet command economy in the late twentieth century?
Exporting natural resources led to food shortages.
Importing more consumer goods led to less market diversity.
Government ownership resulted in low wages and inefficiencies
Free trade agreements led to widespread unemployment
The Armenian genocide is most similar to which of the following?
Massacre of Tutsi in Rwanda
The execution of French king & queen in 18th century
Enslavement of Aztecs in Mexico by Spanish
Enslavement of West Africans in 17th & 18th century
the main objective of the US and its allies during the Korean War
prevent expansion of communism
to aid the North Koreans
to use nuclear weapons on China
to rescue the Ghost of Kyiv
The political cartoon depicts tensions during the
Cuban Missile Crisis
Warsaw Uprising
Vietnam War
Korean War
The belief/theory that if one country falls to communism, the rest will fall to communism as well
Domino Theory
Mutually Assured Destruction
Red Scare
Containment
In the Vietnam War, the North was supported by _________ while the south had the backing of ____________
Communists, the USA
the USA, Communists
The minority group targeted in the Rwandan Genocide
Tutsis
Hutus
Armenians
In this speech, Reagan was referring to
wall separating East and West Berlin
fences around the gulags
wall surrounding the Kremlin in Moscow
concentration camps
In _________, Ghana, Kenya, Congo, and Algeria had independence movements that moved these nations out from under imperial rule of nations such as Britain, Belgium, and France
Africa
Middle East
South America
Asia
In the ____________, Israel called for the partition of Palestine that included an independent Jewish State, this is called the _____________
Middle East, Balfour Declaration
Africa, League of Nations
Australia, Treaty of Paris
Americas, Constitution
In India ______________ began a non-violence independence movement in India and would later lead to independence in 1947
Mohandas Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
MLK Jr
John Cena
Communist backed North overtakes U.S. backed South in the ____________
Vietnam War (1953-1975)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Cuban Missile Crisis
World War II
What is the economic impact of Globalization?
Globalization has caused most nations to create new barriers to trade.
Globalization prevents nations from focusing on producing what they make best.
Globalization promotes the exchange of goods and services between nations.
Globalization causes nations to move production to foreign locations where labor costs are higher.
One way in which Soviet and Chinese communism differed was that under Mao Zedong
government policies promoted closer relations with the West.
greater efforts were made to protect human rights.
children were taught to obey their parents and not the state.
communists placed greater emphasis on agriculture.
Select all of the statements that explain the impact radical Islamic terrorism has had on global events and specifically in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
60 Americans were taken hostage in Iran
the War on Terror following the 9/11 attacks
the creation of the Department of Homeland Security
the creation of the state of Israel
Which word would you use to define the mass killings in Rwanda, atrocities against the Armenian during WWI, atrocities of Stalin in the Soviet Union, or the atrocities of the Red Guard under Mao Zedong in the 1960s?
Genocide
Tyrannicide
Schism
Patricide
