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The Cold War and Decolonization
The Cold War and Decolonization
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1
The most influential revolutionary of the Cold War era throughout the world was...
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Ho Chi Minh
Jomo Kenyatta
2
Which American entity was responsible for covert actions in many nations during the Cold War?
FDIC
CIA
NSA
FBI
3
Mao's Great Leap Forward had all of the following effects
except...
up 30 million died
collectives produced unusable steel
proved that agricultural collectives could replace factories
"experts" reduced Mao's authority in 1961
4
Cold War tensions climaxed in 1962 during the...
Berlin Airlift
Cultural Revolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hungarian Uprising
5
France fought and failed to retain control over which 2 countries in the 50s and 60s?
Haiti and Vietnam
Algeria and Madagascar
Guinea and Cameroon
Vietnam and Algeria
6
Alexander Dubcek promised "socialism with a human face" during the...
Bandung Conference
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Prague Spring
Hungarian Uprising
7
The easing of hostilities between the East and West in the 1970s was called...
containment
SALT
detente
brinkmanship
8
Castro's Agrarian Reform Law angered the U.S because...
placed high tariffs on U.S produce
raised the price of Cuban exports to the U.S
it nationalized land owned by U.S corporations
expanded Cuban trade with the Soviets
9
What best describes the general attitude of the youth in the 1960s?
dissatisfaction with the status quo
disillusionment
desire for a more conservative world
fear of communism
10
Which year was called a "year of revolution"?
1956
1969
1962
1968
11
The Soviet Union crushed an uprising in which Eastern European country in 1956?
Czechoslovakia
Latvia
Hungary
Poland
12
France suffered defeat by the Viet Minh in 1954 at...
The Gulf of Tonkin
My Lai
Dien Bien Phu
Saigon
13
The U.S supported authoritarian governments in all of these countries in the Cold War
except...
Yugoslavia
South Africa
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Chile
14
In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser angered the British and French when he...
nationalized the Suez Canal
joined in a war against Israel
began trade with the USSR
shut down the Suez Canal
15
Groups of youth who carried out Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution were called...
Guomindang
Red Guard
Sandistas
Soviets
16
All of the following leaders were deposed or assassinated during the Cold War
except...
Patrice Lumumba
Mao Zedong
Fulgencio Batista
Salvador Allende
17
A major reason for Mao's victory against Chiang Kai-shek was...
the Soviet army came to his aid
he had U.S support
he had cultivated support of the Chinese peasantry
the communists had superior numbers
18
The biggest problem caused by the Partition of India in 1947 was...
Pakistan's defense agreement with the U.S
the 10 million dislocated Hindus and Muslims
border tensions with Pakistan and China
interference from Britain
19
Which event brought China into direct conflict with the United States?
the Vietnam War
the Suez Crisis
the Korean War
the Cuban Revolution
20
One of the greatest difficulties facing newly decolonized nations after WW2 was...
interference from the competing superpowers
civil war
pirates
lack of interest of the USSR and United States
