Cold War and Communism

Question 1

What belief about China is the cartoon expressing?

Accepted Answer

that Communism is dead in China

Question 2

The Cold War is fought primarily between US and China

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

What was the US’s initial policy toward Russian expansion?

Accepted Answer

containment

Question 4

North and South Korea are divided along the 48th Parallel

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

US and USSR were the ONLY countries involved.

Question 6

In the Korean War South Korea is a communist nation and North Korea is a democratic nation.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

The Warsaw Pact was the ______________ version of NATO

Accepted Answer

Communist

Question 8

The communist takeover of China forced the Nationalists to flee to Taiwan

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Which of the following countries would NOT have belonged to NATO?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT true about the origins and results of the Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

Helping the Soviets to gain the Dardanelle Islands

Question 11

Which sector of Berlin was Communist?

Accepted Answer

Soviet

Question 12

What aspect of the Cold War does the political cartoon refer to?

Accepted Answer

Containment Policies

Question 13

According to the cartoon where is Communism likely to survive?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 14

Judging by the image in the political cartoon who was this new policy the hardest on?

Accepted Answer

The Common People

Question 15

What policy is the focus of this political cartoon?

Accepted Answer

The Great Leap Forward

Question 16

The polices of Gorbachev, perestroika and glasnost, were meant to?

Accepted Answer

Help open the SU to democracy, and create a semi-free market

Question 17

Mao’s Great Leap Forward Plan in China was similar to the Stalin’s _________ in Russia

Accepted Answer

Five Year Plan

Question 18

A satellite state is when a nation is under the control of another nation

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

How did the US respond to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?

Accepted Answer

Used airplanes to drop supplies

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT one of the origins of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Colonies in South America

Question 21

Who becomes the leader in China in 1949, after their Civil war making them a Communist country?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 22

Britain withdrew from the Suez Crisis because

Accepted Answer

the U.S. threatened to cut off aid to Britain.

Question 23

Chinese government responded to Tiananmen Square how?

Accepted Answer

Sending in troops to break up the demonstration.

Question 24

Which of the following is the cartoon representing?

Accepted Answer

the collapse of Communism

Question 25

As Soviet leader, Khrushchev denounced Stalinist repression and restrictions.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The idea of _______________ in China is similar to Gorbachev’s Perestroika

Accepted Answer

Collective Farms

Question 27

Beijing site of pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 was Tiananmen Square.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

reaction to British funding of mainland

Question 29

Only going to the brink of war would protect the U.S. from going to war with the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

Brinkmanship

Question 30

Who is the character in the cartoon lifting the “iron curtain”?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

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