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Cold War Unit 8
Cold War Unit 8
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A multiple choice quiz on the Cold War in Europe.
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1
Was a harsh leader who took power after Khrushchev in the Soviet Union?
Gorbachev
Stalin
Brezhnev
No one, the Soviet Union was dissolved after Khrushchev
2
What did MacArthur demand of the North Koreans that forced President Truman to have to fire him?
use chemical warfare
immediate withdraw of troops from south of the 38th parallel
immediate withdraw of troops from north of the 38th parallel
An unconditional surrender
3
Chemical weapon made of a thick gasoline-based gel used to clear jungle foliage & eliminate enemy troops.
Agent Orange
Napalm
Agent Yellow
Bapalm
4
A policy created by Gorbachev to aid the Russian economy by implementing capitalist practices
Containment
Perestroika
Glasnost
The Brezhnev Doctrine
5
Was an economic organization that aimed to economically unite the European Eastern Bloc
Perestrokia
COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
EU (European Union)
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
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Was an imaginary line that separated communist and noncommunist Europe?
The Mason-Dixon line
Winston Churchill
The iron curtain
The 38th Parallel
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Which one of the following countries was not caught in the struggle between Communist U.S.S.R. and the U.S.?
France
Korea
Vietnam
Germany
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A pledge by the United States to help any free country fight of the advances of Communism
The INF treaty
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
The OPEC
9
Who asked Congress to give him the authority to take “all steps necessary” to protect American interest in Vietnam?
Presidemnt Eisenhower
President Kennedy
President Johnson
President Nixon
10
A policy of Soviet Union that allowed Communist countries to intervene in socialist countries
The Brezhnev Doctrine
The OPEC
Glasnost
The INF treaty
11
Who said, following the Tet Offensive, that the U.S. was involved in a quagmire of a war that it could not win?
Walter Kronkite
President Kennedy
President Johnson
General McCarthur
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The plan by the U.S. to stop the spread of communism was known as
Containment
Blitzkrieg
Marshall Plan
Satellite States
13
A policy created by Gorbachev to limit censorship in the USSR?
The KGB
Perestroika
Containment
Glasnost
14
When over 2 million East Germans fled to West Germany what was created as a result?
The Warsaw Pact
The INF treaty
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Crisis
15
Who did President Truman pace in charge of in the forces in Korea?
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Roosevelt
Patton
16
Which of the following contributed towards the fall of the Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union had not developed an atomic bomb
Earthquakes devastated large parts of Russia
High cost for maintaining empire
Soviet spies in America
17
What body of the United Nations is the most powerful and can Veto decisions made?
The general assembly
Court of Justice
The Security Council
the trustee council
18
What event distracted the American public from the Vietnam War in 1973?
Tet Offensive
Korean War
Watergate
An North Vietnam Soldier Execution
19
Who built the Berlin wall and why?
The U.S. , to make money
East Germnay to keep poeple from leaving to West Berlin
East Germany to keep Europe out
West Berlin to add more poeple
20
The Cold War leading to the economic unity of Western Europe is evident by
The development of the hydrogen bomb
The construction of the chunnel
The Euro becoming an accept currency in several nations
Formation of the European Union
21
Policy calling for gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and turning the war over to the South Vietnamese was known as what?
Vietnamization
MACV
Vietnam Code of Conduct
Police Action
22
Following the Vietnam War the country of Vietnam is united under what form of government?
Communism
Socialism
Command Economy
Capitolism
23
A U.S. Initiative to economically aid countries in Europe after the devastation of WWII
The Marshall Plan
Truman doctrine
Containment
Perestroika
24
The outbreak of student revolts in Western Europe the late 1960s was inspired by?
All of the Above
Vietnam War
overcrowded classrooms and lack of professorial attention
Poor Job prospects for graduates
25
Where was the division made between North and South Korea?
13th parallel
equator
38th paralell
8th parallell
26
An alliance made up of countries in Western Europe and North America?
Allies
N.A.T.O (North American Treaty Organization)
The UN
Warsaw Pact
27
chemical weapon used to destroy jungle foliage in order to expose Viet Cong hideouts would laterproved to cause cancer
Jungle Soil
Agent Orange
Napalm
28
What President threatended to use Nuclear weapons if peace in Korea was not achievevd?
Nixon
Truman
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
29
Which one of the following was
not
one of Truman’s keys to “Limited War”?
Avoid using nuclear weapons
Seek specific objectives rather than complete victory
Avoid invading China at all cost
Be willing to hand over land south of the 38th Parallel
30
Military victory for the U.S. against the Viet Cong but also a political defeat that changed America's view on the war.
Chemical Warfare
Guerilla Warfare
Tet Offensive
First Indochina War
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Countries in Eastern Europe that were controlled by Communist regimes were known as?
OPEC
Satellite States
Axis Powers
N.A.T.O
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Incident which took place in May of 1970, four college students were killed by National Guard troops when openfired
CHicago Riots
New York State
Kent State Massacre