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Cold War Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Cold War?

a)

Protective alliance systems

b)

Advancing technologies

c)

Differing Ideologies

d)

International Cooperation

2.

What was a key feature of NATO and Warsaw Pact?

a)

Human Rights

b)

Collective Security

c)

Economic Aid

d)

Peacekeeping

3.

What is the policy of containment?

a)

Providing financial aid to secure communist governments in the world

b)

Conversations between US and Soviet union on consensus building

c)

Treaties and agreements to stop capitalism from spreading

d)

Attempt to stop the spread of communism through aid to nations in danger

4.

What is a key difference between communism and capitalism?

a)

Voting rights and property rights given to minority groups

b)

Amount of economic control by the government

c)

Amount of laws in their constitutions

d)

Amount of legislative power for elected officials

5.

What was the outcome of the Korean Conflict?

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6.

What is détente?

a)

Stockpile of nuclear arms for battle

b)

Lowering Cold War tensions due to more flexible policies

c)

Lowering Cold War hostility after Soviet Union defeated

d)

Increase in tensions during Cuban Missile Crisis

7.

What was the domino theory?

a)

Communism was inferior so Vietnam would not become communist

b)

U.S. citizen support to invade Vietnam

c)

If one nation fell in East Asia to communism, others would as well

d)

Capitalism was a threat and nations should be protected through force

8.

Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis important?

a)

It was the closest the world came to actual nuclear war

b)

It gave Cuba the weapons to fight against the United States

c)

The Soviet Union didn't back down to U.S. demands

d)

Relations between China and the Soviet Union grew

9.

What did the policy of glasnost result in the Soviet Union?

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10.

One result of economic change in the Soviet union was...

a)

More control was given to the government

b)

Build up of weapons and space program

c)

Increase in military spending by the Soviets

d)

Some control of production was given to citizens

11.

What did the Soviet Union do after the division of Germany and tensions escalated with the United States?

a)

Build Berlin Wall

b)

Build up the iron curtain

c)

Test nuclear weapon

d)

Free German war criminals

12.

What did the Truman Doctrine NOT do?

a)

United States aiding nations against communism

b)

The United States would stay out of European affairs

c)

The United States would aid communist nations turning to democracy

d)

The United States would give financial aid to rebuilding European nations

13.

Which organization was created AFTER WWII to deal with global problems?

(a)  

14.

Which of the countries occupied Germany after WWII?

a)

United States

b)

Soviet Union

c)

France

d)

All of them

15.

Why was the U.S. and USSR against military conflict during the Cold War?

a)

Pressures from nations without alliances

b)

Tensions in the middle east

c)

United Nations were keeping the peace

d)

Mutually assured destruction (MAD)

16.

What event put the United States and Soviet Union on the brink of war?

(a)  

17.

After WWII, What was the U.S. program to help rebuild western Europe?

a)

Bill of Rights for all

b)

The Marshall Plan

c)

Policy of containment

d)

The Domino Theory

18.

What was the Soviet Union's goal during the Cold War?

a)

Spread Communism

b)

Spread Capitalism

c)

Spread Democracy

d)

Stop the spread of Communism

19.

How did the Yalta Conference Contribute to the Cold War?

a)

Soviet Union gained control of Eastern Europe

b)

Stalin gained complete control of Germany

c)

All of Berlin was given to the Soviet Union

d)

Britain and France encouraged communism in Europe

20.

Why was Ho Chi Minh important to Southeast Asia?

a)

He was an ally of the United States against communism

b)

He fought against French control and U.S. backed South Vietnamese

c)

He fought against the Japanese in Vietnam during WWI

d)

He worked with the French to fight South Vietnam

21.

Why did people flee Vietnam after the United States pulled out?

a)

Vietnam was reuniting

b)

They were ashamed of losing the war

c)

They were afraid of communist rule

d)

They wanted the war to end

22.

Mikhail Gorbachev was economically good for the Soviet Union; True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Which were the reasons for the decline of the Soviet Union?

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24.

Glasnost led to more freedom of citizens in Soviet Union; True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

25.

What is one reason Mao defeated the Nationalists in China during 1940s?

a)

Support of peasant population

b)

Increased taxes

c)

Mao reliance on imperialist powers

d)

Decline of Nationalist Party

26.

Why did Czechoslovakia split?

a)

The "Prague Spring" of 1968

b)

Loss of Communist power in 1989

c)

Solidarity movement

d)

Redistributed by the Soviet Union