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HUDSON VUS SOL 12 Review: The Cold War
HUDSON VUS SOL 12 Review: The Cold War
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SOL 12 Review
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1
What U.S. plan promised economic aide to Europe in an effort to stop communism from spreading?
The Monroe Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The New Deal
2
The first to gain freedom from the former Soviet Union was/were the Baltic republic(s) of...
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
All of the Above
3
What country was fighting a civil war pre-WWII which led it to becoming a communist country?
The Phillipines
Japan
Australia
China
4
Who was this leader of the United States in 1961?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
5
Who was this communist leader in Vietnam who led a communist group called the, "Vietcong"?
Ho Chi Minh
Chiang Kai Shek
Mao Zedong
Hideki Tojo
6
What military alliance, formed in 1949, attempted to protect Western Europe from communism?
The Warsaw Pact
The League of Nations
UN (United Nations)
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
7
Who was this leader of the United States when the Cold War began?
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman
8
Who is this Asian, communist leader?
Ho Chi Minh
Chiang Kai Shek
Hideki Tojo
Mao Zedong
9
What island nation nearly brought the U.S. & U.S.S.R. to an all out nuclear war in 1961?
Jamaica
Haiti
Cuba
The Dominican Republic
10
In what year did 15 states of the Soviet Union break away leading to the fall of the U.S.S.R.?
1999
1995
1991
1989
11
In the 1970's, which Soviet leader was partially responsible for "detente" (or eased tensions)?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Georgi Malenkov
12
Which British leader stated in 1946 that an, "Iron Curtain" had descended, dividing Europe?
Winston Churchill
Arthur Wellesley
David Lloyd George
Benjamin Disraeli
13
Who was this leader of the Soviet Union in 1961?
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Georgi Malenkov
Mikhail Gorbachev
14
Which 1980's U.S. President used strong policies to help lead to the fall of the U.S.S.R.?
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
15
Who was this leader of the Soviet Union when the Cold War began?
Adolph Hitler
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
16
Which number of years is the
closest
to the number of years that the Cold War lasted?
46 years
57 years
25 years
31 years
17
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall (when was it dismantled)?
1977
1989
1969
1999
18
At the end of World War II, what country occupied most of Eastern Europe?
France
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
19
In what year did the Soviets construct the Berlin Wall (protecting its claims in Germany)?
1946
1981
1974
1961
20
In 1948, the Soviets tried unsuccessfully to push the U.S., France, & Britain out of what city?
Sarajevo
Berlin
Warsaw
Amsterdam
21
Divisions between communists and democracies led to a split along the 38th parallel where?
Vietnam
India
Korea
Indonesia
22
Glastnost
&
Perestroika
were two plans (for "free markets") championed by which Soviet leader?
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Georgi Malenkov
23
Who organized Russia into an independent republic following the fall of the U.S.S.R.?
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
24
Which of the following countries was NOT a part of the Warsaw Pact?
Poland
Hungary
West Germany
East Germany
25
The Cold War began after what major conflict in world history?
World War II
The French Revolution
The American Revolution
World War I