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Worksheets4th ESO Unit 4. COLD WAR AND DECOLONIZATION
Total questions: 62
Worksheet time: 31mins
After World War II, which two superpowers emerged?
USA and China
USA and USSR
USSR and Japan
USA and Germany
What type of system regulated the new international order after World War II?
Multipolar
Bipolar
Unipolar
Tripolar
The Western Bloc was led by:
USSR
USA
China
Japan
Which of the following countries did NOT belong to the Western Bloc?
Australia
Canada
Cuba
New Zealand
In what year was NATO established?
1945
1948
1949
1955
The Marshall Plan aimed to:
Rebuild Eastern Europe
Rebuild the economies of Western Europe
Spread communism
Support China
The Eastern Bloc was led by:
USA
USSR
United Nations
Japan
What was the Eastern Bloc's response to NATO?
COMECON
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
In what year was the Warsaw Pact signed?
1949
1955
1961
1975
COMECON aimed to:
Assist Western Europe
Integrate the economies of the Eastern Bloc
Prevent Soviet influence
Spread capitalism
What was the Iron Curtain?
A literal wall between East and West Germany
An imaginary border between capitalist and communist areas
A Soviet nuclear weapon
A U.S. missile defense system
In what year was the Berlin Wall built?
1955
1961
1965
1975
Why did the Cold War not lead to a direct conflict between the USA and the USSR?
NATO prevented it
The possession of atomic bombs
Lack of military power
Intervention of the UN
What doctrine represented the USA's approach to defend its allies?
Zhadanov Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
COMECON
The Berlin Blockade was resolved by:
Building the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Airlift
The Marshall Plan
NATO intervention
The Korean War ended with the border at:
17th parallel
38th parallel
45th parallel
55th parallel
Who led the Cuban Revolution?
Ho Chi Minh
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Sukarno
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by:
USA
NATO
USSR
United Nations
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended with the removal of missiles from:
Cuba and Turkey
Vietnam and Korea
Germany and Poland
China and Japan
The Vietnam War ended in:
1965
1970
1975
1980
The Prague Spring occurred in:
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Who introduced Perestroika and Glasnost?
Brezhnev
Khrushchev
Gorbachev
Yeltsin
The fall of the Berlin Wall occurred in:
1987
1988
1989
1991
The Soviet-Afghan War lasted until:
1985
1987
1989
1991
The British Raj was divided into:
India and Bangladesh
India and Pakistan
India and Sri Lanka
India and Nepal
Indonesia obtained independence from:
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
USA
The Bandung Conference was held in:
India
Indonesia
Vietnam
China
The Non-Aligned Movement was formed in:
1955
1961
1965
1970
The Algerian War of Independence was against:
Great Britain
Belgium
France
Portugal
Mozambique gained independence in:
1970
1975
1980
1985
Who founded the People's Republic of China?
Deng Xiaoping
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Sun Yat-sen
The Great Leap Forward occurred between:
1949-1952
1958-1962
1966-1970
1978-1982
The Cultural Revolution was launched in:
1956
1966
1976
1986
Deng Xiaoping introduced:
Cultural Revolution
Great Leap Forward
Reform and Opening
One-Child Policy
Which city became a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in China?
Beijing
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Canton
What movement inspired the dissidents of Eastern Europe?
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Helsinki Accords
COMECON
La Cortina de Hierro simbolizaba la división entre:
Corea del Norte y del Sur
Europa capitalista y comunista
What inspired the dissidents of Eastern Europe?
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Helsinki Accords
COMECON
The Iron Curtain symbolized the division between:
North and South Korea
Capitalist and Communist Europe
East and West Germany
China and Taiwan
What parallel divided Vietnam?
17º
38º
45º
55º
The Soviet Union dissolved in:
1989
1990
1991
1992
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) aimed to:
Continue Soviet communism
Maintain economic ties between the former Soviet republics
Establish military alliances
Promote capitalism
Which country maintained strict communism after the collapse of the USSR?
China
Vietnam
Cuba
North Korea
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Leader of South Vietnam
Leader of North Vietnam
Leader of Cambodia
Prime Minister of Indonesia
What was the main cause of the Sino-Soviet split?
Nuclear arms race
Ideological differences
Border disputes
Economic sanctions
The Non-Aligned Movement opposed:
Capitalism
Communism
Alignment with any major bloc
Decolonization
The first Asian country to gain independence after World War II:
Indonesia
India
Vietnam
China
The Arab-Israeli conflict was triggered by:
The Suez Crisis
Partition of Palestine
Six-Day War
Yom Kippur War
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan aimed to support:
Islamic fundamentalists
Communist government
Monarchy
Mujahideen
The Berlin Wall mainly divided:
North and South Berlin
East and West Berlin
Germany and Poland
France and Germany
The Korean War involved which main organizations?
NATO
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
ASEAN
Perestroika significa:
Apertura
Reestructuración
Reforma
Revolución
¿Qué evento global reveló a las colonias su poder autónomo, fomentando la descolonización?
Guerra Fría
Primera Guerra Mundial
Segunda Guerra Mundial
Conferencia de Bandung
¿Qué ideología defendieron principalmente los movimientos nacionalistas durante la descolonización?
Comunismo
Capitalismo
Autodeterminación nacional
Imperialismo
¿Qué líder es conocido por usar la desobediencia civil no violenta durante el movimiento de independencia de India?
Ho Chi Minh
Sukarno
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Los EE. UU. y la URSS apoyaron la descolonización principalmente para:
Terminar con el imperialismo
Introducir a las colonias en sus esferas de influencia
Promover la democracia
Expandir mercados económicos
¿Qué conferencia en 1955 promovió el apoyo a los movimientos de independencia y condenó el colonialismo y el racismo?
Conferencia de Belgrado
Conferencia de Bandung
Conferencia de Yalta
Conferencia de Potsdam
El Movimiento de Países No Alineados se estableció en:
1955 en Bandung
1961 en Belgrado
1949 en Berlín
1975 en Mozambique
¿Cuál fue el factor clave en la independencia de Indonesia de los Países Bajos en 1949?
Negociaciones pacíficas
Lucha militar liderada por Sukarno
Apoyo de Gran Bretaña
Intervención militar de la ONU
¿Qué país africano obtuvo la independencia de Francia después de un prolongado conflicto militar en 1962?
Kenia
Nigeria
Argelia
Ghana
¿Qué desafío económico enfrentaron los países recién independizados, llevando a una condición conocida como neocolonialismo?
Sobreproducción de bienes manufacturados
Dependencia de la exportación de materias primas e importación de productos manufacturados
Falta de recursos naturales
Fuertes infraestructuras internas
¿Qué término describe al grupo de países recién descolonizados que experimentan inestabilidad política, dependencia económica y desafíos sociales durante la Guerra Fría?
Primer Mundo
Segundo Mundo
Tercer Mundo
Bloque No Alineado
