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A #history game on the Cold War.
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1
What organization was established in 1945 to solve international problems?
United Nations
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
Truman Doctrine
2
The policy for preventing the expansion of communism was known as:
Scorched Earth
Appeasement
Iron Curtain
Containment
3
Which country was divided into four zones following World War II?
France
Russia
Germany
China
4
Who led the revolution that took over Cuba in 1959?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Mao Zedong
5
Which economic recovery initiative provided aid to war-torn European countries following WWII?
Lend-Lease Act
Marshall Plan
McCarran-Walter Act
Kellogg-Briand Pact
6
Leader of Communist forces in Chinese Civil War?
Chiang Kai Shek
Deng Xiaoping
Zhou Enlai
Mao Zedong
7
All of the following were Soviet Socialist Republics within the Soviet Union EXCEPT
Ukraine
Lithuiania
Sweden
Belarus
8
The U.S. military was involved in a conflict in which East Asian country?
Japan
Korea
Vietnam
Philippines
9
Winston Churchill used what phrase to describe rivalry that developed in Europe after WW2?
Steel Cage
Iron Curtain
Wall of Communism
Steel Blockade
10
The Berlin Wall separated the communist ______ Berlin from the capitalist ________ Berlin
North, South
East, West
West, East
South, North
11
Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis are all examples of what Cold War policy?
Militarism
Containment
Imperialism
Non-Alignment
12
What was the effect the widespread adoption of nuclear weapons after WWII?
The use of nuclear weapons in the Vietnam conflict
Massive nuclear warfare
Prevention of WWIII due to Mutually Assured Destructuion
The destruction of all nuclear weapons
13
Which Southeast Asian country became the site of the longest United States military conflict?
Hong Kong
Korea
Vietnam
Thailand
14
What was the policy of stopping the spread of Communism called?
Containment
Domino Effect
Brinkmanship
Detente
15
Which military alliance did the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies form?
Warsaw Pact
NATO
United Nations
League of Nations
16
Following United States military withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, Vietnam
divided into two separate countries.
continued to fight a civil war.
adopted a government similar to Great Britain’s.
adopted a communist form of government.
17
What was the fear of 1 nation adopting communism leading others to adopt communism called?
Brinkmanship
Detente
Marshall Plan
Domino Effect
18
The Cold War ended with the collapse of the USSR in what year?
1989
1998
1990
1991
19
What was the name of the mission that successfully landed on the moon?
Apollo 1
Apollo 7
Apollo 11
Apollo 13
20
United States, Canada, and the nations of Western Europe established what military alliance?
NATO
Warsaw Pact
League of Nations
United Nations
21
Along with the United States, which nation was a world power following World War II?
The Soviet Union
Germany
Japan
Italy
22
"An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit"
Socialism
Supply and Demand
Communism
Capitalism
23
The United States supported what side in the Soviet-Afghan War?
Non-communist rebels
Communists
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Mao Zedong won the support of what two important groups of people in China?
Peasants, Women
Businessmen, Politicans
Women, Upper Class
Peasants, Middle Class