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What was Sputnik?
Which president told Gorbachav, "Tear down the wall!"
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1
Which president told Gorbachav, "Tear down the wall!"
Reagan
Franklin
Kennedy
Nixon
2
What was Sputnik?
First US satellite
First US spy plane
First treaty of Cold War
First Soviet Satellite
3
Ronald Reagan created a Star Wars program which was a
satellite launching program
missile defense program
way for us to spy on Russia
new movie released 40 years ago
4
Which cold war event involved NATO providing economic aid to the citizens of West Berlin?
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Glasnost
5
Why did people build bomb shelters during the 1950s?
feared nuclear attack from the Soviet Union
Congress passed law requiring all people to build shelters
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
Iraq was threatening to attack us
6
What was the name of the plan which was designed to keep Communism from spreading?
Warsaw Pact
Anti-Communist party
Containment Policy
Marshall Plan
7
The policy of détente was mainly intended to
solidify US relations with its economic allies
call world attention to human rights violations
Restrict the spread of Communism
Reduce Cold War tensions
8
This Communist nation was NOT part of the Warsaw Pact
Poland
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Russia
9
The Truman Doctrine was aimed at which countries?
The Soviet Satellites
Greece and Turkey
Yugoslavia (the Balkans)
The Former WWII Allies
10
Who invaded Afghanistan during the Cold war?
Viet Cong
USA
South Korea
Soviets
11
Where were the millions killed in Cambodia?
killing fields
Ho Chi Minh trail
concentration camps
battle fields near Vietnam
12
What event marks the end of the Cold War according to most historians?
The Fall of Sputnik
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Detente
China Invading Korea
13
Who came up with the metaphor of the "Iron Curtain" dividing east and west?
Churchill
JFK
Stalin
Truman
14
Who was Fidel Castro?
The founder of the UN
The loser of the Bay of Pigs attack
The general fired for ordering a nuclear attack
The communist ruler of Cuba
15
Who was the Vietnamese Communist who tried to take over all of Vietnam?
Ky Mulan
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dat Nguyen
16
What did the United states do to end the Cuban Missile Crisis?
We removed our missiles from Turkey
The attack of Bay of Pigs
We bombed Cuba to force the Soviets to leave
We demanded the Berline Wall be taken down
17
The main difference between the wars in Korea and Vietnam is that
US was heavily involved in Korea but not much in Vietnam.
Korea remains divided but Vietnam was reunified as communist
tactical nuclear weapons were used in Korea but not Vietnam
the UN played role in the war in Vietnam but not in Korea
18
The US helped South Korea in the Korean War, who helped North Korea?
France
Germany
China
Vietnam
19
What happened to General Douglas Macarthur?
He was killed in the Vietnam War at the end
He ordered a nuclear attack on North Korea and was fired
He helped North Korea and was fired for being a traitor
He signed the SALT peace treaty with China
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What did Khomeini from Iran do?
took 52 US citizens hostage
attacked Afghanistan
killed 52 US citizens
helped Iraq in the War
21
Vietcong- who was it?
The southern communist Vietnamese
The free Vietnamese
The Koreans invading Vietnam
The North Vietnamese
22
What is the 38th parallel?
The peace treaty at end of Cold War
The division line of North and South Korea
The area in Cuba for the Bay of Pigs
a mathematical equation for a parallelogram
23
What are the nonaligned countries?
Switzerland, Norway, and Yugoslavia
Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Germany,
Switzerland, China, and France
Switzerland, Great Britain, Russia
24
The American policy of giving aid to those resisting takeover by Communist nations
Policy of ending communism
Truman Doctrine
Salt Treaty
Kenan Policy
25
How many nations did Soviet Union split into?
20
12
3
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