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Review for Module 23: Cold War Conflicts test.
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1
Early in the Space Race, what country was leading the way in terms of success in space travel?
Great Britain
China
United States
Soviet Union
2
What two countries emerged from WWII as superpowers?
Czechoslovakia and Germany
Great Britain and Japan
United States and Soviet Union
United States and Poland
3
What is the term for the dividing line between North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
The Great Divide
Korean Wall
Iron Curtain
4
What did Churchill’s phrase
iron curtain
come to mean?
Europe would need a continued military presence for decades.
Europe still has Allied and Axis powers after the war.
Europe divided between democratic and Communist countries.
Europe was forever changed by the Nazi regime.
5
The Berlin Airlift began when?
West Berliners began fleeing into East Berlin
The Soviets blocked Allied access to West Berlin
The British and French had a dispute over German Zones
When America won WW2
6
What was the purpose of Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika?
Disband all communist policies throughout the Soviet Union.
Increase military spending by 50% to prepare for full scale war with China.
Provide social/economic reform results in increased level openness/freedom.
Eliminate/arrest his opponents ensuring he would win reelection.
7
Why did Vietcong start to gain power and support in non-Communist South Vietnam?
The Red Guard spread propaganda to increase support.
Ngo Dinh Diem dictator people were growing more upset with.
The Vietcong started torturing the peasants to gain support.
Kim Il Sung refused to send support to the South Vietnamese.
8
U.S. policies to provide assistance to countries in Europe to combat the spread of Communism?
Yalta Agreement and Helsinki Accords
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution
SALT and SDI
9
Which powerful country backs and supports Mao Zedong, the Communist leader in northern China?
Soviet Union
Germany
United States
Great Britain
10
Détente refers to:
Increase of funding towards the Marshall Plan.
Lessening Cold War tensions.
Strengthening the policy of containment.
Building the supply of nuclear weapons.
11
Which of the following accurately describes one reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union?
New leaders that allowed satellite countries more autonomy.
Nations protesting Soviet rule and declaring independence.
Betrayal of Communist China.
NATO invading Eastern Europe.
12
What did the U.S. fear as a result of the Sputnik launch?
Used to monitor/collect information about the atmosphere.
All of the above.
Sputnik would be used to spy on the U.S.
It could be used to launch nuclear weapons.
13
Soviet Leader employed policies of Perestroika and Glastnost in the 1980's.
Brezhnev
Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Stalin
14
What was the foreign policy of the US under the leadership of President Richard Nixon?
Remained much the same as under the Lyndon Johnson rule.
Diplomatic and lessened tension with Soviet Union and China.
Increased military spending & placed pressure on Soviets.
Adopted ideas of perestroika and glasnost from Soviet Union.
15
Why did Mao Zedong’s victory in China fuel U.S. anti-Communist feelings?
U.S. fear Communism was going to continue to spread in Asia.
SP refused to have any communication after defeat in China.
Mao Zedong started to implement a plan to take over the U.S.
U.S. believed it Communism was losing power.
16
Identify the Communist leader in North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Jong Un
Ngo Dinh Diem
Syghman Rhee
17
Today, Vietnam is a _______country, and Korea is ____ into Communist and non-Communist nations.
Capitalist; joined together
Capitalist; split
Communist; joined together
Communist; split
18
Iran/Iraq went to war with each other. U.S._______, to maintain balance of power in region.
Funded Iran
Funded both Iran and Iraq
Refused to fund either Iran or Iraq.
Funded Iraq
19
What is one way that Stalin broke a promise that was made at the Yalta Conference?
Wouldn’t allow Eastern European countries free elections.
Wouldn’t allow Eastern Euro. countries house Allied forces.
He wouldn’t allow Germany to rebuild urban areas.
Wouldn’t allow Germany divided into zones of occupation.
20
Int. organization created after WWII to protect members from aggression/promote social progress
United Nations
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
NAFTA
21
When Khrushchev came to power, he aimed to purge SU of Stalin’s memory. This policy was ____.
Destalinization
The Great Reformation
Vietnamization
Restoration
22
Identify the name of the first satellite to be launched into space by any country.
U-2
Sputnik
Apollo 1
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
23
The U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in an “Arms Race”. What is the definition of an “Arms Race”?
A race to manufacture the most planes.
A competition to make allies in third world countries.
Compete to make powerful weapons and incr. nuclear arsenal.
A competition to make modern industrial machinery.
24
Major reason for tension between SP. Leads to battle for power and influence throughout world?
Marxism vs. Communism
Monarchy vs. Dictatorship
Capitalism vs. Communism
Socialism vs. Democracy
25
What were the results of the Cultural Revolution in China?
More factories were built and production soared.
Chaos caused a threat to farm production.
Mao became the most beloved leader in history.
Thousands were executed, imprisoned and tortured.
26
Imperialism led to Vietnam War because Vietnamese nationalists wanted independence from ______.
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
France
27
What were the results of Mao’s Great Leap Forward in China?
Resulted in poor planning and inefficiency of resources.
Crop failures killed about 20 million people.
All of these answers are correct.
It had reduced the peasants’ incentive to work hard.
28
What was the significance of the Berlin Airlift?
America tried to remove all remaining air supplies/technology from Germany.
Showed that the Allies forgave the Germans for WWII
It was the closest that the superpowers came to actual, direct fighting.
Demonstrated US resisting the spread of Communism.
29
Why is it called the Cold War?
It revolved around direct military combat between both sides
Soviet Union was unwilling to get involved in any conflict.
America was still recovering from the effects of WWII.
It never resulted in any direct military combat.
30
Fear that if one Asian nation fell to Communism they all would fall to Communism.
Marshall Plan
Mutually Assured Destruction
Vietnamization
Domino Theory
31
What is the primary reason that the U.S. funded Batista in Cuba and Somoza in Nicaragua?
Prevent the countries from becoming Communist.
Allow the countries to educate their populations.
Help countries stay nonaligned.
Give the countries a chance to build a nuclear arsenal.
32
What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Soviets attempt to overthrow Mao Zedong in China and spread communism.
Spread vital supplies and resources to Latin American countries.
Overthrow Castro regime and maintain American power/influence in Cuba.
To overthrow Stalin's regime in the USSR.
33
What was the significance of the Berlin Wall?
Prevented East Germans from defecting to West Germany.
Prevented the smuggling of arms to anti-Soviet forces.
Protected Western Europe from Soviet invasion.
Protected Soviet Union from invasion by the U.S. until 1989.
34
Which of the following refers to a group of warriors who fought against the Soviet-supported government in Afghanistan?
Viet Cong
Mujahideen
All of these.
PLO
35
How did the U.S. respond to the launch of Sputnik?
They started to build the Apollo program.
They panicked, but did nothing.
They started to build the Gemini program.
Pour money into science/tech. Launch satellite Explorer 1
36
Why did Gorbachev believe reforms were necessary in the Soviet Union when he became the new leader in 1985?
Soviets tolerated poor standard of living compared to Western Europe/U.S.
Soviet state-run economy was performing very poorly and near collapse.
The Soviet nuclear program was running out of funding.
Soviet citizens were beginning to lose support/enthusiasm for communism.
37
Which powerful country backs and supports Jiang Jieshi, leader in Nationalist S. China?
Poland
United States
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
38
What was significant about major agreements such as SALT and the Helsinki Accords in the 1970s?
The countries that signed it refused to engage in détente.
It meant countries would no longer send satellites to space.
Agreed to cooperate with each other and commit to détente.
Signing countries agreed to remain neutral in the Cold War.
39
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Removal of Soviet refugees from Germany.
Taking planes out of the city of Berlin because it was too powerful
An operation where US &UK forces sent food/supplies to the people in Berlin
A battle during World War II
