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1
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) also referred to as the Star Wars was
Soviet Unions attempt to send a man to mars
countries fighting to get to space first.
Luke Skywalker's attempt to find his father.
Reagan's plan to knock nuclear weapons out from space.
2
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall and communism began to fail?
1991
1988
1989
1990
3
Which Russian leader started a policy of "destalinization"?
Khrushchev
Gorbachev
Stalin
Brezhnev
4
Term that refers to a state of being close to direct war between Russia and the US.
Containment
expansion
brinkmanship
detente
5
Which Russian leader put up the Berlin Wall?
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Gorbachev
Stalin
6
Which leader established a communist government in China?
Jiang Jieshi
Dalai Lama
Mao Zedong
Zhou Enlai
7
During the Korean War, North Korea was ____ and South Korea was ______.
happy/happier
supported by the U.S./ supported by the Soviet Union.
supported by the Soviet Union/supported by the U.S.
capitalist/commist
8
What was the name of the pro-communist rebels in South Vietnam?
Vietminh
Vietcong
9
The policy to support free peoples and resist communism was called the
Warsaw Pact
Anti Communist Support System
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
10
The Cold War is....
a nonviolent conflict between the US and Soviet Union.
a period of time when there were no blankets for anyone.
when the Thor fought the ice giants.
a nonviolent conflict between the US and Britain.
11
The Manhattan Project was
the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
the atomic bomb research project in the United States.
the creation of NATO.
an art exhibit in Manhattan during the 1900's.
12
Over what did MacArthur get fired by President Truman during the Korean War?
the slaughter of innocent women in children by Americans
the desire of MacArthur to use nuclear weapons
his refusal to use naval forces on North Korea
MacArthur's use of napalm in civilian areas
13
Glasnost allowed for
all of the above
freedom of speech
freedom of press
artistic and literary freedoms
14
The Soviet Union made a military alliance that included 7 Eastern European countries called the
NATO
Eastern Germany
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Airlift
15
The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Leonid Breznev
Fugencio Bastista
16
A policy to take any measures to prevent extension of communist rule to other countries
Berlin Airlift
superpowers
containment
Marshall Plan
17
Perestroika
forbade private property
placed peasants on collective farms
removed the power of the communist party in the Soviet Union
restructured the economy in Russia
18
Which former Soviet satellite nation was the only violent revolution in 1989?
East Germany
Romania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
19
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when
the United States attacked Cuba.
when the cold war got colder
Cuba made their own nuclear weapons.
the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba.
20
China joined the Korean war when...
North Korea begged them to assist them.
China supported capitalism and wanted to help South Korea.
the South Koreans made them upset.
The U.S. and South Korea advanced too close to China.
21
The United States, Canada, and 10 other countries made an alliance to defend each other called
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Soviet Union
TORNADO
Warsaw Pact
22
A period of peace when cold war tensions cooled down.
detente
nuclear war
checkpoint
anti-ballistic missiles
23
The line formed following World War II that divided North & South Korea
containment
Berlin Airlift
the 38th Parallel
Iron Curtain
24
A massive aid package offered by the US to help countries rebuild after WWII was called
Marshall Plan
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
25
A phrase used to describe the division of Communist and non-Communist Europe
NATO
Iron Curtain
Hollywood 10
38th Parallel
26
The Berlin Airlift was a result of...
the Soviet Unions anti-gravity initiatives in Berlin.
the United States dropping bombs on the Soviet Union.
the Soviet Union blockading Berlin from the Western Powers.
Soviet Union opening the borders of Berlin to everyone.
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Vietnamization refers to the US policy of
withdrawing US troops from Vietnam
aid we supplied to France to help with their war
carpet bombing Vietnam to prepare for an invasion
stopping the spread of Communism in China
28
The 17th parallel divided which country between North and South?
Korea
Vietnam
Canada
Germany
29
Which nation was the first to place a satellite into space?
France
Russia
West Germany
United States
30
The United States and the USSR came closest to nuclear war during the
Vietnam War
Berlin Crisis
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
