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1
Which of the following correctly identifies the two nations with their ideologies (government)?
US- Socialism, Soviet Union-Communism
US-Democracy, Soviet Union-Communism
US-Democracy, Soviet Union-Utilitarianism
US-Democracy, Soviet Union-Fascism
2
What was the competition called between the USSR and the US to build up nuclear weapons?
Weapon Build Up Race
Space Race
Arms Race
Guns Race
3
What was the Marshall Plan??
Provide money to European countries recovering from WWII
To push back Soviet expansion
To provide weapons and money to nations fighting Communism
To make the US the dominant power in the world
4
Who were the Big Three at the Yalta Conference?
Stalin, Attlee, Roosevelt
Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
Stalin, Attlee, Truman
Stalin, Churchill, Truman
5
Why were they not successful?
Millions of Chinese die during these reforms
China was too huge for these reforms to succeed
The US sends troops to stop the reforms
China couldn't make enough money from these reforms
6
The Domino Theory was used as a reason to get involved in what wars?
Thailand and Cambodia
China and Korea
China and Vietnam
Korea and Vietnam
7
What Soviet Leader institutes the glasnost and perestroika reforms?
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
8
What was glasnost?
Restructuring the economy
Openness of the Soviet Union to discuss problems
A US policy of preventing Communism from spreading
An act of genocide in the Soviet Union
9
Berlin was in the part of Germany controlled by which Allied power from WWII?
The United States
Germany
Great Britain
The Soviet Union
10
The Korean War lasts how long?
1950-1953
1946-1949
1953-1968
1950-1960
11
What Communist leader who took over China is pictured here?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
12
What year do Communists take over China?
1947
1948
1946
1949
13
The picture here represents what Western countries (US & others) response to Stalin's blockade?
The Berlin Airdrop
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Bombing
The Berlin Airlift
14
Who was the Communist leader who takes over Cuba in 1959?
Miguel Hidalgo
Nikita Khrushchev
Hernan Cortez
Fidel Castro
15
Which of the following is NOT a way Mao Zedong changes China?
Implements Communism, gov't takes over all property
The Imperial Way
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution
16
What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
Supply countries with money and weapons to fight Democracy
To prevent Communism from spreading
To keep Communism from spreading to the US
To takeover the Soviet Union and Communist countries
17
Why did Joseph Stalin surround West Berlin with tanks and troops in a blockade in 1948?
To cut off Western countries from supplying West Berlin
To stop missionaries from spreading Christianity
To keep Democracy from spreading to West Berlin
To keep Communism in West Berlin
18
What term is this picture representing?
The NATO Pact
The Iron Curtain
Allies and Axis Powers
The Berlin Wall
19
Why were Communist able to take over China?
Support of the working class and a corrupt Socialist gov't
Support of business men and aid of the US
Support of the middle class and aid of the USSR
Support of peasants and corrupt Nationalist government
20
The belief that if one country fell to Communism, more would fall one after another was called:
The Contingency Plan
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
The Domino Theory
21
What were the two conferences at the end of WWII that set the tone for the Cold War?
Yalta and Potsdam
Yalta & Berlin
Potsdam and Paris
Berlin and Paris
22
What was the name for the competition between the USSR & the US to make it past Earth's orbit?
Deep Space Nine
Slip Space
Arms Race
The Space Race
23
The picture here represents the division of what country after WWII?
The United States
Germany
Great Britain
The Soviet Union
24
According to the map, at the end of the Korean War what are the results?
North Korea becomes part of China
South Korea is given to Japan
North Korea and South Korea remain divided
North Korea and South Korea join as one country
25
Which military alliance was formed by the US and Western European countries for an USSR attack?
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Axis Powers
Allies
26
What do these reforms lead to?
The end of the USSR
The spread of Communism
The end of the US
The spread of Socialism
27
What was the major turning point in the Vietnam War where the US begins to loose?
Seoul Offensive
Tet Offensive
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Midway
28
How long does the Cold War last?
1945-1989
1918-1991
1945-1991
1918-1989
29
What promise had Stalin made at Yalta that he goes back on at the Potsdam Conference?
To allow for US troops to be stationed in the USSR
To allow democracy in Eastern European countries
To share the secrets of the Tsar bomb with the US
To give money to the countries recovering in Western Europe
30
What was Perestroika?
Restructuring and reforms of the Soviet economy
Openness of Soviet Union to more freedoms
A revolt in Czechoslovakia
Invasion of Eastern European countries
31
Were Mao's reforms like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in China successful?
No
Definitely not
Nope
Not at all
32
Along what line of latitude are North and South Korea divided?
38th Parallel
42nd Parallel
21st Parallel
18th Parallel
33
What was the closest point in the Cold War the US and the USSR come to actually fighting?
Korean War
Berlin Airlift
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis
34
When the Nationalists in China loose to the Communists, where do they flee?
Mongolia
Taiwan
Korea
Japan
35
The Cold War was a conflict between what two nations?
China and the US
The Soviet Union and Germany
The Soviet Union and the US
The US and Japan
36
Of the two countries (China and Taiwan), which is more developed today?
Great Britain
China
Taiwan
The US
