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World History: The Cold War and Decolonization
World History: The Cold War and Decolonization
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The Cold War can be described as an ideological war between...
Capitalism and Creationism
Communism and Maoism
Agrarianism and Urbanization
Communism and Capitalism
2
The Cold War was between
The US and USSR
North and South Korea
The Untied States adn China
The USSR and Cuba
3
What best describes the general attitude of the youth in the 1960s?
dissatisfaction with the status quo
desire for a more conservative world
disillusionment
fear of communism
4
One of the greatest difficulties facing newly decolonized nations after WW2 was...
civil war
lack of interest of the USSR and United States
interference from the competing superpowers
pirates
5
Which American entity was responsible for covert actions in many nations during the Cold War?
CIA
FDIC
NSA
FBI
6
Castro's Agrarian Reform Law angered the U.S because...
raised the price of Cuban exports to the U.S
it nationalized land owned by U.S corporations
expanded Cuban trade with the Soviets
placed high tariffs on U.S produce
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Cold War tensions peaked in 1962 during the...
Cultural Revolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hungarian Uprising
Berlin Airlift
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The biggest problem caused by the Partition of India in 1947 was...
Pakistan's defense agreement with the U.S
border tensions with Pakistan and China
the 10 million dislocated Hindus and Muslims
interference from Britain
9
The most influential revolutionary of the Cold War era throughout the world was...
Che Guevara
Ho Chi Minh
Fidel Castro
Jomo Kenyatta
10
Which event brought China into direct conflict with the United States?
the Korean War
the Vietnam War
the Suez Crisis
the Cuban Revolution
11
In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt angered the British and French when he...
joined in a war against Israel
began trade with the USSR
nationalized the Suez Canal
shut down the Suez Canal
12
Mao's Great Leap Forward had all of the following effects
except...
up 30 million died
proved that agricultural collectives could replace factories
collectives produced unusable steel
"experts" reduced Mao's authority in 1961
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Groups of youth who carried out Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution were called...
Red Guard
Sandistas
Guomindang
Soviets
14
A major reason for Mao's victory against Chiang Kai-shek was...
the communists had superior numbers
he had cultivated support of the Chinese peasantry
the Soviet army came to his aid
he had U.S support
15
France fought and failed to retain control over which 2 countries in the 50s and 60s?
Vietnam and Algeria
Algeria and Madagascar
Guinea and Cameroon
Haiti and Vietnam
