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WH Final 2014 Review
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1
What event sparked the beginning of the Cold War?
Berlin Airlift
Suez Crisis
building of the Berlin Wall
Soviet Blockade of Berlin
2
Which Germany was Communist?
East Germany
West Germany
3
Which one of the following was NOT a main event of the Cold War?
Arms Race
Vietnam War
Korean War
Iraq-Iran War
4
What event sparked the Cold War between the USA and USSR?
Creation of Soviet regimes in Eastern Europe
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Northern Korean invasion of South Korea
German invasion of Poland
5
What caused tensions at the end of World War II between Stalin & the western powers?
Stalin refused to share Germany with the West
Stalin went back on his promise to allow free elections
Stalin could not forgive Truman for dropping the atomic bomb
6
What brought the USSR & USA closest to a nuclear war?
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Bay of Pigs
7
What is the extreme form of socialism that has the government own all the means of production?
free enterprise
communism
capitalism
market economy
8
Which conference started the event depicted in the map?
Paris Conference
Warsaw Conference
London Conference
Berlin Conference
9
What is the name of the treaty between the Soviet Union and eastern European communist nations?
NATO
Warsaw Pact
NCSP
NAFTA
10
What policy did not work against Hitler that kept the US & USSR from backing down?
detente
Truman Doctrine
war
appeasement
11
Where did the first religious violence in Europe since World War II occur?
France
Northern Ireland
Germany
England
12
In response to the Soviet Blockade of Berlin, what did NATO do?
Invasion of Cuba
Full-Scale Invasion of Eastern Germany
Airlift to bring food & medicine to West Berlin
Full-scale invasion of USSR
13
What person led China to become a communist country?
Mao Zedong
Kim Il-Sung
Ding Xaoping
Ho Chi Minh
14
What were two causes of the rise of Hitler in Germany in the 1930s?
increased military & hyperinflation
economic depression & increased military
economic depression & hyperinflation
militarism & general wealth
15
What signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union in 1989?
Fall of the Berlin Wall
End of communism in China
Velvet Revolution
1968 Protests in Eastern Communist nations
16
Which president called the Soviet Union the "Evil Empire?"
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ronald Reagan
17
What is the treaty between Western Europe and North America?
NSCP
NATO
Warsaw Pact
NAFTA
18
What was the main reason for the tensions during the Cold War?
Nuclear War
Arms Race
Difference of opinion
Detente
19
Woman & child labor, overcrowded cities, and increase in disease are effects of what?
Nationalism
Ruralization
Imperialism
Urbanization
20
What is the primary purpose of the United Nations?
to spread capitalism
to spread socialism
to spread communism
to spread democracy
21
Giving a magnetic speech & 1 political party is an example of what type of government?
Monarchy
Theocracy
Democracy
Totalitarian
22
Where was one of the major 20th-century genocides between the Hutus & the Tutsis?
Egypt
South Africa
Rwanda
Uganda
23
In what place was the Truman Doctrine used to keep communism from spreading?
USSR
China
Korean Peninsula
Argentina
24
What was the result of the discovery of penicillin?
Lowered death rates
Decreased life span
Increased death rates
Increased life span
25
What did the Soviet government want to spread after World War II?
command economy
democracy
peace
capitalism
26
Was Berlin located in East Germany or West Germany?
East Germany
West Germany
27
Marx believed class warfare between what 2 classes would happen in a post-industrial society?
factory owners & proletariat
nobility & middle class
nobility & peasants
nobility & proletariat
28
What promise did Stalin make that he broke that led to increased tension in the Cold War?
free elections in Asia
free elections in Eastern Europe
free elections in North America
free elections in South America
29
Some government ownership, protection of workers rights & more equality are characteristics of:
Communism
Capitalism
Command Economy
Socialism
30
Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall?
to separate families
to keep in East Berliners
to keep out West Berliners
to help their economy
