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WorksheetsModern History Final
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 26mins
Little Stalin
Who made the statement "An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent"? He was the Prime Minister of the UK during WWII.
Nevelle Chamberlien
Henry Kissenger
Harry Truman
Who was the leader of The Soviet Union when the phrase "Iron Curtain" was phrased, and was the leader of the USSR during WWII?
Benito Mussolini
Mao Zedong
Vladimir Lenin
Who was the U.S. President who ended WWII, made the decision to drop the atomic bombs, and set the stage for future presidents to "contain" communism?
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which of the following organizations supports Democratic ideals and self governance, and will defend each other if attacked?
Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. China's Communist leader during the Chinese Civil War. He led the "Great Leap Forward" that killed up to 55 million Chinese citizens.
Hideki Tojo
Kim Jung Un
Sun Yat Sen
"The Father of Modern China," this man led the 1905 Revolution that saw China dissolve the monarchy and enter the First World War.
Sun Yat-Sen
Mao Zedong
Vladimir Lenin
Hidiki Tojo
Freed North Korea from Japanese occupation during WWII. Then ruled North Korea as a dictator until his death, and after his death as "Eternal President."
Kim Il-Sung
Mao Zedong
Hideki Tojo
George MacArthur
The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to get rid of which communist leader?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Fidel Castro
None of the above
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhal Gorbachav
Fidel Castro
Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
During what Cold War event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade in Germany without provoking a military conflict?
Berlin Airlift
Vietnam War
Watergate Scandal
Bataan Death March
What theory caused the U.S. to enter the Vietnam War in order to stop the expansion of communism across Southeast Asia?
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Open Door Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
The sustained bombing of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, ordered by Johnson in 1965
Domino Theory
Operation Rolling Thunder
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Leading Vietnamese nationalist figure, supporting the Communist party
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Cong
Kent State University
WWII general. Republican who won the election of 1952. Warned American's about the Military Industrial Complex before he left office in 1961.
Dwight Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Which USA mission completed the first successful moon landing?
Apollo 13
Mercury 7
Discoverer 1
Apollo 11
USA Secret Program that brought Nazi Scientists, like Wernher von Braun over to work for the United States space program.
Operation Paperclip
Operation Swastika
Project Moon
Project Spork
36th President of the United States, he pushed plans for his "Great Society" forward. He aslo sent thousands of troops to Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Dwight Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
1968, massive attack by the Viet Cong on major cities in South Vietnam; caused American public support of war to plummet
Operation Rolling Thunder
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Kent State University
US troop reduction in Vietnam; transfer of combat operations from American to South Vietnamese troops
Domino Theory
Kent State University
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
The countries in RED represent which Cold War era organization?
League of Nations
Justice League
USA
Warsaw Pact
What ultimately ENDED the Cold War?
USSR dissolved in 1991
Stalin dies
Death of Fidel Castro
USA dismantled all nuclear warheads
Which country supported Fidel Castro, the communist leader of Cuba?
USA
USSR
Great Britain
Wakanda
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had which type of government/economic system?
democracy
monarchy
capitalism
communism
Wall built that separated East and West Berlin, Germany. Built by the Soviet Union to stop the German people from moving from East Berlin (communism) to West Berlin (democracy). The tearing down of the Berlin Wall represented the end of the Cold War.
The Great Wall
Border Patrol
Berlin Wall
Containment
Fear of communism.
Communism
Red Scare
Space Race
Yellow Scare
Race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to build up weapons.
Arms Race
Space Race
Foot Race
Three legged race
A 13 day confrontation between Cuba backed by the Soviet Union and the U.S. in which Cuba had missiles aimed at the U.S. This event was the closest the U.S. and the Soviet Union ever came to nuclear war.
Soviet Missile Crisis
U.S. Missile Crisis
Missile Launch
Cuban Missile Crisis
Which Civil Rights leader converted to Islam and preached self defense?
MLK
Malcolm X
Black Panters
Medgar Evers
The man known for advocating for non-vilent protests, civil disobedience against unjust laws, and speeches of wanting ALL Americans to live together
John F Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King Jr
Malcolm X
What country sent the first astronaut into space?
China
Soviet Union
United States
Japan
According to the Warren Commission, who assassinated John F. Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald, by himself
James Earl Ray
FBI
The Soviet Union
Which communist country did Richard Nixon open relations with in the early 70s?
Cuba
China
Soviet Union
North Korea
