Cold War Quiz Review

To engage in an increase in intensity or magnitude of military action.

Where were the battles of the cold war carried out?

How did the development of nuclear weapons force the US and USSR to change their tactics?

How did the Soviet Union respond to protests in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?

The policy of resisting Soviet aggression to stop the spread of communism.

A massive program of economic aid to rebuild Europe and to prevent communism following WWII.

To build up military capability to a point that it prevents an enemy from attacking.

Which of the following is NOT one of Mao's political reforms?

The Soviet term for restructuring, a policy moving the USSR from communism to capitalism

Which of the following was NOT one of Mao's Social reforms?

Which of the following countries was NOT one of the five original nuclear powers?

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons the Bay of Pigs invasion fails?

Which of the following was NOT a problem the USSR faced following the fall of communism?

What was the worst nuclear disaster in history?

What was the ideological struggle of the Cold War?

A soviet and Warsaw Pact invasion of this country after democratic reforms are instituted.

According to economists, why did the Soviet Union fall?

Which of the following methods was NOT used to achieve the ideological goals of the Cold War?

When did the arms race begin?

A CIA coup against democratically elected Salvador Allende who is replaced with a dictatorship.

A pledge to provide economic and military assistance to oppose the spread of communism.

When does the space race begin?

What was the Iron Curtain?

The Soviet policy that allowed a free press and public criticism of the government.

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Cold War?