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WorksheetsCold War Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
How did Stalin violate promises made at Yalta?
He withdrew Soviet troops from Eastern Europe
He allowed free elections in Poland
He established communist governments in Eastern Europe
He joined NATO
Why did the UN fail to create an agency to monitor nuclear weapon development?
The USS R vetoed
The Soviet Union opposed the idea
The UN lacked funding
There were not enough nuclear weapons at the time
True/False: The Marshall Plan gave money to free nations undergoing economic troubles.
True
False
What two nations were targeted by the Truman Doctrine?
Germany and Italy
Greece and Turkey
China and Japan
France and Spain
What is the name of the policy George Kennan prescribed?
Containment
Isolationism
Expansionism
Neutrality
True/False: Truman ordered desegregation in all businesses.
True
False
What two non-European nations were originally in NATO?
Canada and the U.S.
Mexico and Brazil
China and India
Argentina and Australia
When Truman said, “We are going to stay, period,” where was he referring to?
North Korea
West Berlin
Vietnam
Japan
What did HUAC supposedly investigate?
Organized crime
Government corruption
Communisum in America
Civil rights violations
Who led Chinese communists to victory?
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
Sun Yat-sen
Ho Chi Minh
True/False: Dewey campaigned against Truman’s containment policies.
True
False
What New Deal program did Truman expand in his second term?
Social Security
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The Federal Reserve
The Works Progress Administration
What family has run North Korea since its establishment?
The Mao family
The Kim family
The Stalin family
The Park family
True/False: South Korea launched an initial invasion of the north.
True
False
Which country invaded from the north to push the UN southward?
China
Japan
The Soviet Union
Vietnam
Why wouldn’t Truman invade China?
He feared the USSR would become involved
The U.S. did not have enough troops
China was an ally
The UN refused to support it
The “Manifesto of the Communist Party” begins, “A __________ is haunting Europe—the __________ of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this _______________.
War, spirit, evil
Revolution, force, threat
Specter, specter, specter
Idea, ideology, danger
Communism is a political and economic doctrine that aims to replace (a) and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production.
Karl Marx’s philosophy, known as Marxism, revolves around the concept of (a) , the idea that economic forces, particularly the struggle between classes, drive historical change and that the capitalist system is inherently exploitative, ultimately destined to be overthrown by a communist revolution.
Marx argued that capitalism’s inherent contradictions would lead to a (a) where the proletariat, seizing the means of production, would usher in a socialist and then a communist society.
