What was the Khmer Rouge?

Force of Cambodian communist guerillas

Small group of loosely organized soldiers in surprise raids

strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries

What was the main reason for the success of the Communist revolution in China?

Promise of land and power to the peasant class

Why was the Cold War called “The Cold War”?

Power struggle between the US and the Soviet Union

What are superpowers?

Nations stronger than other powerful nations

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Cold War Quiz Quiz

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1
Who created the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in China?
Kim ll Sung
Hi Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
Po Pot
2
Who led North Korea and helped it become an ally to the Soviet Union?
Kim ll Sung
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Syngman Rhee
3
What was the Khmer Rouge?
Cause of the end of the Cold War
Force of Cambodian communist guerillas
A brutal dictator
Marking point in the public opinion in the US
4
What were guerillas?
Vietnam Soldiers
Apes
Small group of loosely organized soldiers in surprise raids
Word for traitors
5
What is containment?
strategy of shutting down communism entirely
strategy of keeping safe
strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries
strategy of spreading communism
6
What was the main reason for the success of the Communist revolution in China?
Had important businessmen in their ranks
fought successfully against the US during WWll
stressed religion in their military training
Promise of land and power to the peasant class
7
Why was the Cold War called “The Cold War”?
Governments were in peril
Riots broke out everywhere
Because it was cold
Power struggle between the US and the Soviet Union
8
What are superpowers?
Nations stronger than other powerful nations
Nuclear weapons
Things that superheros have
Ships
9
What did China embrace after the Soviet Union split up and Eastern Europe defeated communism?
communism
democracy
capitalism
totalitarianism
10
What did the reunification of Germany in 1990 symbolize?
Failure of communist system
collapse of collective security pacts
Success of communist system
rise of religious leaders
11
Who created perestroika?
Nikita Khrushchev
Josef Stalin
Leo is Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
12
Where was Korea divided?
Great Leap Forward
Demilitarized Zone
Pusan Perimeter
38th Parallel
13
Who won the Vietnam War?
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
China
United States
14
What strained the Soviet Union’s economy towards the end of the Cold War?
Warsaw Pact
glasnot
détente
Arms Race
15
What is glasnot?
openness is Russia
closing of borders
Raising of countries
soldiers

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