WorksheetsCold War Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
What was the name of the international organization formed after World War II?
League of Nations
United Nations
Association of Nations
The United States
What was the name of the boundary separating Communist and Non-Communist countries in Europe?
Iron Curtain
Great Wall
Hadrian's Wall
The Great Border
What was the name of the American foreign policy designed to stop the spread of communism?
Appeasement
Deterrence
Containment
Detente
What was the American foreign policy designed to provide military and economic aid to free nations threatened by internal and external threats?
Monroe Doctrine
Detente
Containment
Truman Doctrine
What was the name of the American foreign policy designed to give economic aid to help European countries rebuild after World War II?
Treaty of Versailles
Containment
Marshall Plan
Monroe Doctrine
What was the name of the defensive military alliance consisting of the United States and 10 other European countries?
Warsaw Pact
NATO
League of Nations
United Nations
What was the name of the defensive alliance consisting of the Soviet Union and 7 other European countries?
NATO
United Nations
African Union
Warsaw Pact
What was the name of the revolutionary and statesmen who was the first leader of Communist China?
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
What was the name of the Communist guerillas who fought against South Vietnam?
Red Army
Vietcong
White Army
Taliban
What two countries were most involved in the Arms Race during the Cold War?
France and Germany
Cuba and the United Kingdom
The United States and Soviet Union
Japan and China
On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin from the rest of West Germany. How did the United States and the western Europeans respond?
They drove unarmed truck convoys to the city.
They fired missiles into the territory of the Soviet Union.
They airlifted food and other supplies to the city.
They left the city, allowing it to join East Germany.
Base your answers to the following question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
. . . I mention all these details, which I remember so clearly, in order [to] give a sense of the shock that we suffered when The Wall came upon us one night. There we were in Berlin, at the crossroads between East and West, at the juncture of two fundamentally different cultures, and suddenly we were locked up like canaries in a cage.... — Jens Reich, “Reflections on becoming an East German dissident, on losing the Wall and a country,” in Gwyn Prins, ed., Spring in Winter: The 1989 Revolutions
Which historical event is directly reflected in this passage?
building of a barrier between East and West Berlin
formation of the Warsaw Pact
occupation of Germany
Berlin Airlift
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963 and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968 were signed with the
the goal of reducing the greenhouse
effect increasing nuclear weapons in undeveloped countries
limiting nuclear weapons
disarming all nuclear weapons
The Communist policy in China aimed at improving the agricultural system was called
The Terrace Policy
The Great Leap Forward
The Chinese Collective
The Four Modernizations
Red Scare
The Cuban Missile crisis
Domino Theory
Berlin Airlift
Read the quote.
“On Sunday, June 25th, Communist forces attacked the Republic of Korea.
This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.”
… excerpt from President Harry S. Truman’s speech regarding Korea (July 19, 1950)
What conclusions can you draw about the United States' involvement in the Korean War?
The United States became involved in the Korean War to gain more allies for future world wars.
The United States became involved in the Korean War to protect their trade routes to China.
The United States became involved in the Korean War to prevent the spread of communism around the world.
The United States became involved in the Korean War to stop Emperor Hirohito from conquering Korea.
How was the United States involved in the Vietnam War?
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on South Vietnam.
The United States was allied with North Vietnam.
The United States provided economic and limited military aid to prevent the spread of communism.
The United States did not want to get involved in other countries' conflicts.
During the Korean War, what prevented the southern part of the peninsula from falling permanently to the invading forces?
The threat of a Soviet naval blockade
The assistance of the Chinese military
The use of atomic weapons on northern cities
The involvement of UN forces under the command of the United States
