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9th Grade World History quiz on the Cold War
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1
In regards to the space race, what was JFK's goal for the United States?
put a man in orbit around the Sun
reach Mars and start a colony
develop interstellar travel
put a man on the moon
2
What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?
Soviet launching of a space satellite
establishment of the Warsaw Pact
Cuban Missile Crisis
Chinese-Soviet treaty
3
If a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will fall under Communist control
detente
containment
domino theory
collapse theory
4
Which two groups fought a civil war in China?
communists and Japan
nationalists and communists
peasants and landowners
warlords and emperor
5
When was JFK assassinated?
October 1965
September 1964
November 1963
December 1962
6
What president took the United States into the Vietnam War?
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Dwight Eisenhower
7
Which was NOT a tactic used by superpowers to influence Third World nations in the Cold War?
covert operations
military aid
sponsored revolutions
threatened them with nuclear attack
8
The leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death was
Leonid Brezhnev
Antonin Novotny
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
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A defensive alliance of European Communist nations
United European Front
League of Communist Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
10
Who was the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
11
What brought the world to the brink of nuclear war?
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs invasion
Iranian Hostage Crisis
12
What president was able to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
13
Who entered the Korean War on the side of North Korea?
Japan
China
United States
Soviet Union
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Communist leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Saigon Jung
Kim Jung Un
15
Which two nations became superpowers after World War II?
Great Britain and Soviet Union
Japan and China
United States and Soviet Union
Germany and United States
16
What is the border between North and South Korea?
38th parallel
Yalu River
17th parallel
iron curtain
17
How did the Soviet Union respond when the Allies reunified the western zones of Germany?
They formed a blockade around West Berlin
They moved out of East Germany
They placed missiles in Cuba
They attacked West Germany
18
"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
Buzz Aldrin
John Glenn
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
19
What Soviet conflict compares to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
the invasion of Afghanistan
the uprising in Hungary
the Cuban Missile Crisis
the war in Korea
20
What U.S. policy was aimed at stopping the spread of communism?
detente
brinkmanship
containment
domino theory
21
The first human-made space satellite to orbit the earth was
Apollo 11
Saturn V
Sputnik I
Slovak II
22
Who led a revolution and set up a communist government in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Ricky Ricardo
Alexander Dubchek
23
Who were the Vietcong?
pro-Communist South Vietnamese
anti-Communist South Vietnamese
anti-Communist North Vietnamese
pro-Communist North Vietnamese
24
During the Cold War, most Third World countries could have been accurately described as being
aligned with the United States.
developing nations.
located in Eastern Europe.
established democracies.
25
The era of political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII.
Cold War
Soviet Succession
Communist War
Vietnam War
