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1
Where did North and South Korea reach a stalemate?
Saigon
The Yalu River
Inchon
The 38th parallel
2
The border between Soviet-controlled countries and the West was called _____.
West Border
Soviet Wall
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
3
Which event caused a new era in the US attitude to world politics, also known as the Truman Doctrine?
The Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Communist attack on Greece
The USSR’s testing of the H-bomb
4
What did Stalin do in West Berlin that Truman saw as a challenge for containment?
He bombed East Berlin
He placed nuclear weapons in West Berlin
He blocked supply lines to West Berlin
He wanted to strengthen West Berlin
5
What alliance did Stalin form in retaliation to NATO?
The East Germany Alliance
The Warsaw Pact
The Communist Alliance
The Eastern European Pact
6
Which of the following is NOT a statement agreed in the Yalta Conference?
Not all of the Big Three agreed to join the new United Nations Organization
The liberated countries would be allowed to hold free elections
Stalin enters the war against Japan one Germany had surrendered
Germany would be divided into four zones
7
The USSR employed U-2 spying equipment, while the US used human spies to see what each side was up to during Cold War
True
False
8
Which of the following countries refused to receive the Marshall Aid?
France
Greece
Britain
USSR
9
Who did Kennedy send to overthrow Castro during the Bay of Pigs?
UN peacekeepers
Anti-Khrushchev exiles
Anti-Castro exiles
US troops
10
Which country was split in 2 by the Iron Curtain?
USSR
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
11
Why was Cuba so important to the USA?
Americans had a huge naval base in Cuba
Americans owned most of the businesses on the island
Cuba had long been an American ally.
Cuba became anti-Communist after Fidel Castro overthrew dictator Batista
12
Which of the following is NOT true about Solidarity?
It was closely associated with the Catholic Church
It initiated the wave of anti-Communist reforms
It strengthened the Communist governments
It contributed to the fall of the Soviet empire
13
Who was the successor of President Kennedy?
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Donald Trump
Dwight D. Eisenhower
14
Why did Truman remove MacArthur from his position as commander?
MacArthur openly threatened an attack on China
MacArthur could not win the Korean War
MacArthur voiced his support for communism
MacArthur was secretly helping North Korea
15
The outcome of which conference allowed Stalin to achieve his eastern European dominance?
Yalta
Tehran
Casablanca
Potsdam
16
Why was the Tet Offensive a turning point in the Vietnam War?
Many civilians were killed, and it raised ethical questions in the USA
It was a daring strategy that took US forces completely by surprise
Many South Vietnamese rose up and joined the Communists
American and international public support for the war strengthened
17
Ho Chi Minh was an anti-communist.
True
False
18
Gorbachev’s policy of openness and transparency in government institutions was known as
Perestroika
De-Stalinization
Solidarity
Glasnost
19
How did the Western Allies respond to the USSR’s west Berlin blockade?
They retaliated by cutting off supply lines in east Berlin
They airlifted supplies into west Germany
They asked the USSR to sign a peace treaty
They threatened the USSR with nuclear weapons
20
Which of the following is NOT an outcome of the Cuban missile crisis?
President Kennedy’s reputation improved
Cuba stayed Communist
No nuclear missile was withdrawn
Khrushchev claimed a personal triumph
21
Which of the following is an outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Cuba is no longer a Communist country
John F. Kennedy was forced to resign as president
The US and USSR became more and more distrusting with one another
The US and USSR were ready to try to reduce the risk of nuclear war
22
Which of the following is NOT a reason why the US stopped its military support in South Vietnam?
The South Vietnamese regime was corrupt
North Vietnam threatened nuclear war
They lacked support from the population
They did not want to waste American money
23
The Truman Doctrine’s plan to stop the spread of communism was known as the policy of
Blame
Propaganda
Fear
Containment
24
Nuclear war was a possibility in the Cuban missile crisis.
False
True
25
Which of the following was an outcome of the Cold War?
The Soviet Union dissolved
Gorbachev remained in power
The Berlin Wall remains
Most of eastern Europe remained Communist
26
How did the Vietnam War end?
The South Vietnam fell to Communist forces
The North Vietnam lost to the anti-Communist South Vietnam
The USA seized the control of the entire Vietnam
North and South Vietnam signed a peace treaty
27
A pattern in Cold War was that the superpowers threatened military confrontation with each other, but never went to war
False
True
28
Congress accepted the _______ and made $17 billion available over a period of four years to rebuild Europe’s prosperity.
Marshall Plan
Truman Plan
Congress Plan
Europe Plan
29
How did the Korean War end?
North Korea won
South Korea won
Peace treaty was signed
Armistice was signed
30
Which two nations emerged as the superpowers after World War II?
US and Britain
US and France
US and USSR
USSR and Britain
31
Why did Tuman believe that saving South Korea, rather than all of Korea, from communism was enough?
The UN stopped supporting the US
The risks of starting a war with the USSR were too great
MacArthur told him it was an unwinnable war now that the Chinese joined
The Korean War became too costly
32
Which World War 2 Big Three Leader was NOT present at the Potsdam Conference?
Churchill
Stalin
Truman
Roosevelt
33
The October Crisis, in which the US found nuclear missile sites built by the USSR, marked the beginning of
The Vietnam War
The Berlin Airlift
The Korean War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
34
Who replaced Stalin after he died?
Yuri Andropov
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
35
NATO was set up to defend member nations from threats by communist countries.
False
True
