Module 23: The Cold War

Question 1

Nixon felt that it was important to talk to the Soviet Union and China.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What spurred Congress to fund the Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

The Soviets seized power in Czechoslovakia

Question 3

Churchill believed the Soviets tried to make an “iron curtain” by taking over its neighbors

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

“Carpet bombing” helped garner U.S. support among Vietnamese peasants.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Truman didn’t think that Stalin needed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Religious leader who had to flee to India

Accepted Answer

Dalai Lama

Question 7

Nixon based his ideas for détente on realpolitik.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

What played a key role in the French, Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutions?

Accepted Answer

the peasants’ desire to break down class structures

Question 9

What actions were evidence that Nikita Krushchev did not approve of Joseph Stalin?

Accepted Answer

Khrushchev encouraged destruction of statues and monuments

Question 10

The invasion of this country led to the United States boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Accepted Answer

Afghanistan

Question 11

This country brought about a new policy that helped thaw the Cold War.

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 12

Nixon wanted the United States to have fewer missiles than the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Leader who fled to Taiwan and set up a Nationalist government

Accepted Answer

Jiang Jieshi

Question 14

This country was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979.

Accepted Answer

Afghanistan

Question 15

This country received aid from the United States in its fight against the Soviets.

Accepted Answer

Afghanistan

Question 16

Why did Eisenhower order an embargo against Cuba?

Accepted Answer

Castro took over all of the U.S.-owned sugar mills.

Question 17

The country’s leader encouraged revolutionaries to take over the U.S. embassy.

Accepted Answer

Iran

Question 18

Which country did the Soviets provide aid to during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Angola

Question 19

Americans were held hostage here for 444 days.

Accepted Answer

Iran

Question 20

This country elected a leader who was a New Conservative.

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 21

Leader who sought to control all of his neighboring countries

Accepted Answer

Jiang Jieshi

Question 22

Stalin believed that communism and capitalism could coexist with each other.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

Stalin made certain promises at the Potsdam Conference that he ended up not keeping.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

The US got involved in Vietnam after 2 US destroyers were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Which characteristic was associated with the Great Leap Forward in China?

Accepted Answer

Large collective farms called communes were deemed necessary

Question 26

War broke out between this country and Iraq in 1980.

Accepted Answer

Iran

Question 27

War protests on the home front eventually encouraged the end of the Vietnam War.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Nixon convinced the Cubans to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

Fewer than 100,000 U.S. troops served in Vietnam.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

What caused the Chinese to send 300,000 troops to North Korea?

Accepted Answer

The UN troops pushed North Koreans to the Yalu River

Question 31

This country had a leader who became known as the “Iron Lady.”

Accepted Answer

United Kingdom

Module 23: The Cold War

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Module 23: The Cold War

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