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Cold War Review

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name

Class

Date

North Korea had a/an _____ government.

democratic

capitalist

communist

monarchy

Who was the Korean War between?

U.S. and South Korea

Russia and North Korea

North Korea and South Korea

North Korea and North Vietnam

President Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War know as the Truman Doctrine. What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

To expand trade with Europe

To limit the build up of nuclear weapons

To stop the spread of communism

to send financial aid to Europe

Korea was divided along the __________ Parallel after World War II.

35^th

36^th

37^th

38^th

What war ended in a stalemate (meaning nobody won)?

World War I

Korean War

Civil War

World War II

Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Nikita Khrushchev

Felipe Gonzales

Fidel Castro

Pancho Villa

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Cuban Missile Crisis

Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

Inchon Invasion

Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

The agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US would________________?

Take missiles out of Poland

Promise not to invade Cuba

Promised to not attack the Soviet Union

Take missiles out of the Soviet Union

As a part of the agreement that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. agreed to ____.

be friends with the Soviet Union

remove their missiles from Italy and Turkey

allow USSR to keep missiles in Cuba

not complain about the missiles anymore

10.

After the Vietnam War

South Vietnam stayed independent but communist.

both countries were reunited.

the Americans had to pay for most of the damage.

all of the above.

11.

Which American president escalated the Vietnam War and did not run for re-election as a result of anti-war activities in the United States?

Kennedy

Nixon

Truman

Johnson

12.

Leading Vietnamese nationalist figure, supporting the Communist party

Ngo Dinh Diem

Ho Chi Minh

Viet Cong

Kent State University

13.

If one country falls to communism, the countries around would also fall to communism

Vietnamization

Domino Theory

Tet Offensive

Democratic Republic of Vietnam

14.

The Vietnamese who fought against the U.S. and South Vietnamese troops