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WorksheetsCold War Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Cold War?
Protective alliance systems
Advancing technologies
Differing Ideologies
International Cooperation
What was a key feature of NATO and Warsaw Pact?
Human Rights
Collective Security
Economic Aid
Peacekeeping
What is the policy of containment?
Providing financial aid to secure communist governments in the world
Conversations between US and Soviet union on consensus building
Treaties and agreements to stop capitalism from spreading
Attempt to stop the spread of communism through aid to nations in danger
What is a key difference between communism and capitalism?
Voting rights and property rights given to minority groups
Amount of economic control by the government
Amount of laws in their constitutions
Amount of legislative power for elected officials
What was the outcome of the Korean Conflict?
What is détente?
Stockpile of nuclear arms for battle
Lowering Cold War tensions due to more flexible policies
Lowering Cold War hostility after Soviet Union defeated
Increase in tensions during Cuban Missile Crisis
What was the domino theory?
Communism was inferior so Vietnam would not become communist
U.S. citizen support to invade Vietnam
If one nation fell in East Asia to communism, others would as well
Capitalism was a threat and nations should be protected through force
Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis important?
It was the closest the world came to actual nuclear war
It gave Cuba the weapons to fight against the United States
The Soviet Union didn't back down to U.S. demands
Relations between China and the Soviet Union grew
What did the policy of glasnost result in the Soviet Union?
One result of economic change in the Soviet union was...
More control was given to the government
Build up of weapons and space program
Increase in military spending by the Soviets
Some control of production was given to citizens
What did the Soviet Union do after the division of Germany and tensions escalated with the United States?
Build Berlin Wall
Build up the iron curtain
Test nuclear weapon
Free German war criminals
What did the Truman Doctrine NOT do?
United States aiding nations against communism
The United States would stay out of European affairs
The United States would aid communist nations turning to democracy
The United States would give financial aid to rebuilding European nations
Which organization was created AFTER WWII to deal with global problems?
(a)
Which of the countries occupied Germany after WWII?
United States
Soviet Union
France
All of them
Why was the U.S. and USSR against military conflict during the Cold War?
Pressures from nations without alliances
Tensions in the middle east
United Nations were keeping the peace
Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
What event put the United States and Soviet Union on the brink of war?
(a)
After WWII, What was the U.S. program to help rebuild western Europe?
Bill of Rights for all
The Marshall Plan
Policy of containment
The Domino Theory
What was the Soviet Union's goal during the Cold War?
Spread Communism
Spread Capitalism
Spread Democracy
Stop the spread of Communism
How did the Yalta Conference Contribute to the Cold War?
Soviet Union gained control of Eastern Europe
Stalin gained complete control of Germany
All of Berlin was given to the Soviet Union
Britain and France encouraged communism in Europe
Why was Ho Chi Minh important to Southeast Asia?
He was an ally of the United States against communism
He fought against French control and U.S. backed South Vietnamese
He fought against the Japanese in Vietnam during WWI
He worked with the French to fight South Vietnam
Why did people flee Vietnam after the United States pulled out?
Vietnam was reuniting
They were ashamed of losing the war
They were afraid of communist rule
They wanted the war to end
Mikhail Gorbachev was economically good for the Soviet Union; True or False?
True
False
Which were the reasons for the decline of the Soviet Union?
Glasnost led to more freedom of citizens in Soviet Union; True or False?
True
False
What is one reason Mao defeated the Nationalists in China during 1940s?
Support of peasant population
Increased taxes
Mao reliance on imperialist powers
Decline of Nationalist Party
Why did Czechoslovakia split?
The "Prague Spring" of 1968
Loss of Communist power in 1989
Solidarity movement
Redistributed by the Soviet Union
