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Cold War Review 2024
Cold War Review 2024
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World History II Review
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In what event did the US and USSR go "toe to toe" almost causing WWIII?
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Bay of Pigs Invasion
2
Why did the west initiate the Berlin Airlift?
Soviet blockade of West Berlin
Reunification of East and West Germany
Construction of the Berlin Wall
Marshall Plan ended
3
Which of the following was a consequence, not cause, of the collapse of the USSR?
Warsaw Pact collapsed
Berlin Wall came down
Lithuania declared independence
Declining Soviet economy
4
Who was the British Prime Minister that supported Ronald Reagan?
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbechev
Margaret Thatcher
Indira Gandhi
5
What were the two major sides of the Cold War?
Marshall Plan & Molotov Plan
Central Powers & Allied powers
Axis & Allies
NATO & Warsaw Pact
6
What were the results of the Korean War?
Ended communism in SE Asia
Remained divided in the same location
Unified as one Communist Korea
Kept South Korea free of Communism
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Through what program did the United States offer aid to war-torn European countries?
NATO
Marshall Plan
Glasnost
Containment
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What was a goal of the Marshall Plan?
Developed strong trading partners in Asia
US bought its way into European affairs
Created stable democracies to resist communism
Forced the USSR to allow emigration
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Why was the Cold War arms race so terrifying?
Weapons being used as fast as they were built
Many countries involved were small and unstable
Many superpowers with hydrogen bombs
Weapons were more powerful
10
What is the competition between the United States and USSR for power and dominance called?
Solidarity
UN
WWII
Cold War
11
What was the key idea of NATO?
Isolationism
Appeasement
Collective security
Free trade
12
Which was NOT a policy of Gorbechev?
Vietnamization
Glasnost
Democratization
Perestroika
13
What is the United States resistance to the expansion of communism called?
Containment
Glasnost
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
14
In 1975, all conflict ended in Vietnam because...
North Vietnam took control of all of Vietnam
North Vietnam surrendered
US invaded Cambodia
Nixon signed a treaty
15
What characterized the Cold War for 50 years?
American & Soviet isolationism
Political conflict & military tensions
Small battles worldwide
Gradual decline of Soviet power
16
What policy in Asia was also a major foreign policy of the US during the Cold War?
Khmer Rouge
Domino Theory
Nonaligned nations
Vietnamization
17
Why was the Berlin Wall built?
Prevent smuggling of arms to anti-USSR troops
Prevent E. Germans from defecting to W. Germany
Prevent food to Poland
Stop supplies into W. Germany
18
In which event was it possible that the US would/could use nuclear missiles?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Chinese Civil War
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
19
Why did Johnson and the US get involved in Vietnam?
Unite the country
The French would control Vietnam
Fear that the communists would take over
Fear of Diem's assassination
20
Which event uses the American policy of containment?
World War II
Spanish-American War
World War I
Vietnam War
21
What area is behind the Iron Curtain?
Democratic Western European states
East Germany
USSR only
USSR and its satellite nations
22
Which of the following forces helped to trigger the collapse of the USSR?
Enviromentalism
Inflation
Capitalism
Nationalism
23
Which Soviet Policy meant "economic restructuring?"
Vietnamization
Glasnost
Democratization
Perestroika
24
Who could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
Any European nation with a border on the Iron Curtain
Any European government modeled after the US
Any European country that politically opposed the USSR
Any European nation
