Cold War

Question 1

What happened to Germany after WWII?

Accepted Answer

Germany was divided into occupied zones- later became East and West Germany

Question 2

One goal of the Marshall Plan (1947) was to

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rebuild the economy of Western Europe

Question 3

The Bay of Pigs was a US failed attempt to overthrow

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Fidel Castro

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

to support countries that rejected communism

Question 5

Which of the following is the best answer for the start of the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

North Korean invasion of South Korea

Question 6

Following the US military withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, Vietnam

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adopted a communist form of government

Question 7

Which country launched the first satellite into space, Sputnik I on Ocotber 4, 1957?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 8

Which was NOT one of the agreements that averted nuclear exchange between US and Soviets duing the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

The US and USSR woudl stop building nuclear weapons

Question 9

Which event is most closely associated with the end of the Cold War?

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tearing down the Berlin Wall

Question 10

What was one of Stalin's goals in Eastern Europe?

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to spread communism in the area

Question 11

Mao Zedong's policy to re-start the revolution by imprisoning/killing intellectuals and starting peasent uprisings was

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cultural revolution

Question 12

Who was the leader after China's civil war had ended?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 13

To strengthen democratic governments in Europe, the United States offerred

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the Marshall Plan

Question 14

While democratic elections were allowed in West Germany, East Germany

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fell to communism

Question 15

Who became involved in the Korean War after UN forces under General MacArthur reached the Yalu River in North Korea?

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China

Question 16

Churchill's term the "Iron Curtain" refers to communist expansion and influences in which part of the world?

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Eastern Europe

Question 17

Which one of the following doctrines promised to aid nations struggling against communist movements?

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 18

The Soviet Union set up the ________ in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany.

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Berlin Blockade

Question 19

The state of tension between nations without armed conflict between the main rivals was known as the

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Cold War

Question 20

Which best destribes the underlying causes of the Cold War?

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economic and political differences between the US and Soviet Untion

Question 21

President Nixon's Vietnamization policy emphazided that the US must

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empower South Vietnamese forces to assume more combat duties

Question 22

All lof the following conflicts were during the Cold War except

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London

Question 23

What is the dividing line between North and South Korea known as?

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38th Parallel

Question 24

The Warsaw Pact was Soviet reaction to what US led action?

Accepted Answer

the creation of NATO

Question 25

The United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and ______ are permanent members of the United Nations.

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China

Question 26

The Berlin Blockade-The US responded by

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using airplancs to supply West Berlin for 327 days

Question 27

What economic system was used to reshape China's economy after the civil war?

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communism

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