What is a country's GDP?

The total value of all goods and services

What did Nikita Krushchev call for?

Peaceful coexistance with the West

Who was Ronald Reagan?

A President of the US, An actor

Forced seperation by ethnicity, Forced seperation by race, Forced separation by religion

What happened to Nicolae Ceausescu?

Refused to step down and was executed

What is suburbanization?

The movement of people from the city

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1
Who did the Soviets back in the Middle East?
Afghanistan
No one
Israel
Arab states
2
True or false: The Great Leap Forward was a rousing sucess
True
False
3
What is a country's GDP?
The amount of money a country produces
The amount of money a country spends
The total value of all goods and services
The total value of a country's expendatures
4
Who were the Mujahedin?
Communist rebels in South Korea
Soviet troops
Jewish warriors
Muslim warriors
5
What was the forced pooling of peasant land and labour to increase productivity?
Collectivization
Suburbanization
Containment
Recession
6
Who later became president of Poland?
Nicolae Ceausescu
Lech Walesa
Mikhail Gorbachev
Václav Havel
7
Was Ho Chi Minh a communist leader, a socialist leader, or a democratic leader?
IDK
Communist
Democratic
Socialist
8
What was the result of Dienbienphu?
The US left Vietnam
France left Vietnam
The US left Cambodia
France left Cambodia
9
Who instituted the policies of perestroika and glasnost?
Gorbachov
Brezhnev
Ceausescu
Khrushchev
10
What does ABM stand for?
Alpha-Beta Mathmatics
Anti-Boy Movement
Afghanistan's Big Military
Anti-ballistic missiles
11
What is a small group of loosly organized soldiers called?
Guerrillas
Viet Cong
Mujahedin
Gorillas
12
Who led Polish shipyard workers?
Václav Havel
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lech Walesa
Nicolae Ceausescu
13
Which did Ho Chi Minh not fight?
Japanese
US supported South Vietnam
The Soviet Union
French
14
Who was Fidel Castro?
The communist leader of Cuba
A President of the US
An ally to the US
The communist leader of Vietnam
15
Who led the pulling down of the Berlin Wall?
Brezhnev
Khrushchev
Ceausescu
Gorbachov
16
What was the independant labor union in Poland called?
Union el labour
Solidarity
Perestroika
Khmer Rouge
17
Which US President went to Berlin and said "Ich bin ein Berliner"?
Trump
Reagan
Castro
Kennedy
18
What country did Ho Chi Minh lead?
North Korea
Cambodia
Vietnam
South Korea
19
What is an ideology?
A religion
The study of ideas
A creative person
A system of beliefs and values
20
Who led the Khmer Rouge?
Syngman Rhee
Kim Il Sung
Lech Walesa
Pol Pot
21
Who was the North Korean Dictator?
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Il Sung
Leonid Brezhnev
Pol Pot
22
Who did the United States back in the Middle East?
No one
Afghanistan
Israel
Arab states
23
Who was president of the US from 1980 to 1988?
Benjamin Franklin
Jimmy Carter
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
24
What country did Syngman Rhee lead?
Cambodia
South Korea
North Korea
Vietnam
25
What was détente?
The setting up of tents
Heightening of Cold War tensions
French detention
Relaxion of Cold War tensions
26
Which attack surprised American and South Vietnamese soldiers?
D-Day
Dienbienphu
Tet Offensive
Vietnam Surprise
27
What were Muslim religious warriors called?
Khmer Rouge
Viet Cong
Guerillas
Mujahedin
28
What did Nikita Krushchev call for?
War with the West
Peaceful coexistance with the West
A united Russia
Reform in the government
29
Who was Ronald Reagan?
A military leader
A President of the US
A dictator
An actor
30
What country was Václav Havel elected president of?
Vietnam
Cambodia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
31
Where did the UN troops stop the advance of North Korea?
Dienbienphu
Pusan Perimeter
38th Parallel
Demilitarized Zone
32
To whom did Reagan say "Tear down this wall"?
Brezhnev
Khrushchev
Gorbachov
Ceausescu
33
Which type of country has a market economy, but with increased government responsibility?
Democratic State
Communist State
Socialist State
Welfare State
34
What is segregation?
Unequal treatment
Forced seperation by ethnicity
Forced seperation by race
Forced separation by religion
35
What idea said that governments across Asia would fall to communism?
Checker Theory
Domino Theory
Chess Theory
Glasnost
36
Who led NATO?
The UK
Germany
The US
The USSR
37
What country's advance was stopped at the Pusan Perimeter?
South Korea
North Korea
Cambodia
Vietnam
38
Who led an armed rebellion in Cuba, took power, and allied himself with the Soviets?
Leonid Brezhnev
Ho Chi Minh
Ronald Reagan
Fidel Castro
39
Who led noncommunist South Korea?
Pol Pot
Kim Il Sung
Ho Chi Minh
Syngman Rhee
40
What happened to Nicolae Ceausescu?
Refused to step down and was executed
Stepped down willingly but was executed
Stepped down willingly and left Romania
Refused to step down and run out of Romania
41
What is a recession?
When the government runs out of money
When the economy grows
When the economy shrinks
When people become shorter
42
What was the name of the communist rebels trying to overthrow South Vietnam?
Khmer Rouge
Mujahedin
Guerillas
Viet Kong
43
Why did Pol Pot kill a third of the population of Cambodia?
He didn't like them
Destroy Western influence
Remove Blacks from society
A smaller country to rule
44
What country did Kim Il Sung lead?
North Korea
Vietnam
Cambodia
South Korea
45
Which president told Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall"?
Kennedy
Lincoln
Castro
Reagan
46
What was glasnost?
The pooling of land and resources
Communist nations would take over
Greater openness
Reconstruction of the government and economy
47
Where were the Mujahedin from?
Vietnam
USSR
Afghanistan
Cambodia
48
Who fought in Dienbienphu?
France and Cambodia
US and Vietnam
US and Cambodia
France and Vietnam
49
What is suburbanization?
The movement of people leaving the suburbs
The movement of people from the city
The movement of people to the city
The movement of sandwhiches to urban areas
50
What did Leonid Brezhnev reinstate?
A communist government
Imprisoning critics
Soviet cooperation with the UN
A market economy
51
Who was Nicolae Ceausescu?
Russia's longtime dictator
Romania's longtime dictator
A communist leader
A US president
52
Who led the Soviet Union after Stalin's death?
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Ceausescu
Gorbachev
53
Who was Konrad Adenauer?
A leader of the USSR
The leader of Cuba
A US President
Chancellor of West Germany
54
What was the Great Leap Forward?
The Moon landing
A Chinese Communist Program
A program to boost farm and industrial output
The longest long jump at the olympics made by Irving Yachly
55
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
A leader of the Soviet Union
The leader of the UN
A US President
The leader of communist Cuba
56
What did Mikal Gorbachev bring about?
Peaceful coexistence
Reforms
imprisoning critics
A revolution
57
What is a demilitarized zone?
An area where Anti-Ballistic Missles are stored
An area with no military forces
An area with all the military
An area where only military is allowed
58
Which policy tried to keep communism within its existing borders?
Collectivization
Suburbanization
Containment
Recession
59
Under which ruler was the Berlin Wall built?
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Gorbachov
Ceausescu
60
Who was Leonid Brezhnev?
A US president
The leader of communist Cuba
A military leader
A leader of the Soviet Union
61
North Korea and South Korea was split by what line?
Equator
38th Parallel
28 Longitude
83rd Parallel
62
What is the purpose of an Anti-Ballistic Missiles?
Missiles fired at submarines
Missiles aimed at another country
Missiles that can shoot down other missiles
Missiles for fireworks
63
Who said, "We (The Soviet Union) will bury you (The United States)"?
Ceausescu
Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
64
Who killed a third of Cambodia's population?
Kim Il Sung
Syngman Rhee
Ho Chi Minh
Pol Pot
65
What did Konrad Adenauer do?
Called for peaceful coexistance with the west
Took power of communist Cuba
Guided West Germany's rebuilding
Guided East Germany's rebuilding
66
Who was Václev Havel?
A leader of Polish shipyard workers
A human rights activist
A comunist dictator
A dissident writer
67
What is a superpower?
A nation stronger than other powerful nations
A superhero, like Captain America or Superman
A country that is weak
A nation that bullied other nations
68
On what day did the Tet Offensive take place?
Vietnamese New Year
4th of July
Christmas Day
Vietnamese Independance Day
69
What was the Cultural Revolution?
A program to purge China of nonrevolutionary tendancies
A program that tried to boost farm output
A program to change the people's culture
A Chinese Communist Program
70
What was perestroika?
Communist nations would take over
The pooling of land and resources
Reconstruction of the government and economy
Greater openness
71
What does GDP stand for?
Green Dependant Penguins
Gross Domestic Profit
Gross Domestic Product
Good Domestic Pets
72
What does NATO stand for?
New Apples Teach Ostriches
North African Treaty Organization
Not an Average Teenage Octopus
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
73
What was the goal of the European Community?
Establishing free trade
Establishing a socialist state
Preventing communism
Preventing wars
74
Who was in the Warsaw Pact?
Warsaw countries
North Atlantic countries
Eastern European countries
Western European countries
75
True or false: The Cultural Revolution caused economic and social damage
True
False
76
What group of guerilla rebels overthrew the Cambodian government?
Mujahedin
Viet Cong
Khmer Rouge
Glasnost
77
What country did Mikhail Gorbachev lead?
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Cambodia
USSR
78
Who was Dr. Martin Luthor King, Jr.?
A communist dictator
A leader of the civil rights movement
A gifted preacher
A US president
79
Who was president of the US from 1961 to 1963?
Fidel Castro
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luthor King
80
Who lead the Warsaw Pact nations?
United States
Warsaw
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
81
What did Khrushchev say regarding the United States?
He said nothing
We will bury you
We will kill you
We will help you
82
What is discrimination?
Unequal treatment or barriers suffered by minorities
Forced pooling of peasant land and labor
Forced separation
A period when the economy shrinks
83
What is containment?
Building a wall
Preventing communism from further expansion
The collection of government critics
Trying to keep communism in its borders
84
What country did the 38th Parallel divide?
Vietnam
Cuba
Korea
Cambodia
85
What is it called when the economy shrinks?
Recession
Expansion
Depression
Inflation

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