Cold War Quiz SHS 2020 DFM

Question 1

What country originally colonized Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 2

A proxy war is when

Accepted Answer

2 countries indirectly fight by adding opposing sides

Question 3

Who was the leader of the Communist Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Question 4

How did Chernobyl start?

Accepted Answer

The Flawed Reactor Expolded.

Question 5

Where did Chernobyl take place?

Accepted Answer

Ukraine

Question 6

How did Gerald Ford become president?

Accepted Answer

he inherited it when Nixon resigned

Question 7

How was the Vietnam War significant to the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

The Vietnam War was considered a proxy war during the Cold War

Question 8

The name given to the US/Allied operation to bring supplies to West Berlin by air.

Accepted Answer

The Berlin Airlift

Question 9

The belief that if one country fell to communism then they would all fall.

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 10

The Truman Doctrine officially ended American isolationism.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The name given to the US/Allied operation to bring supplies to West Berlin by air.

Accepted Answer

The Berlin Airlift

Question 12

What is being described in the political cartoon below?

Accepted Answer

M. A. D.

Question 13

Who was the leader of South Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 14

What was the meaning of Glasnost?

Accepted Answer

Call for greater transparency in the Soviet Government

Question 15

Eventually, the parts of Germany controlled by the former Allied Powers became which of the following?

Accepted Answer

East and West Germany, The BRD and DDR

Question 16

The Russian perestrokia, used to describe the reform movement lead by Mikhail Gorbachev, accomplished what?

Accepted Answer

reconstruction of the political and economic system in the USSR

Question 17

Which president's international policy was detente?

Accepted Answer

Richard Nixon

Question 18

The Watergate Scandal led to the ...

Accepted Answer

Resignation of President Nixon.

Question 19

Why did the United States lose the war in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

most of the American troops were young and inexperienced in combat.

Question 20

The first military action of the Cold War was the Vietnam War.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

What caused Chernobyl?

Accepted Answer

A nuclear reactor exploding

Question 22

This Soviet reformer instituted perestroika and glasnost

Accepted Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 23

America's purpose in Vietnam War

Accepted Answer

stop the spread of communism

Question 24

What was is the defination of detente

Accepted Answer

easing hostile or strained relations with a foreign country

Question 25

Did jimmy carter own a peanut farm?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Glasnost meaning?

Accepted Answer

openness

Question 27

The Cold War can be best described as a war of...

Accepted Answer

Ideologies

Question 28

After WWII, Germany was split between the former Allied powers with Berlin under the total control of the USSR.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

The Watergate Scandal led to...

Accepted Answer

the increase distrust of government.

Question 30

Who did America ally with during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

South Vietnam

Question 31

Which is a government and economic system where all resources are controlled and distributed by the government?

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 32

Which of the following groups or people were NOT in favor of direct military action during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

President John F. Kennedy

Question 33

What was the final result of the Soviet Afghan War?

Accepted Answer

The Soviet's left and the Mujahideen eventually took over

Question 34

Who was the REAL hero of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Ronald McDonald

Question 35

What was the name of the Afghan guerrilla movement formed to fight the Soviet forces?

Accepted Answer

Mujahideen

Question 36

the soviet union supported north vietnam

Accepted Answer

True

Cold War Quiz SHS 2020 DFM

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Cold War Quiz SHS 2020 DFM

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