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Review of Cold War for World History
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1
What country achieved the technological marvels of the first satellite and first man in space?
U.S.A.
China
Germany
U.S.S.R.
2
The U.S.S.R. was brought down primarily by…
American military pressure
A pro-democratic civil war with Russia lasting 2 years
Chinese economic and military pressure
Nonviolent mass movements in Eastern Europe
3
Efforts to reduce tension between the Cold War superpowers and promote dialogue were called…
Appeasement
Containment
Deterrance
Détente
4
Founder of modern China's principle of allowing free markets but not political freedom
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
Deng Xiaoping
Kim Il-Sung
5
Embracing export industry & global trade in recent decades has helped all the following EXCEPT
Japan
China
The Asian Tigers
Small Mexican farmers
6
In the 1980s, Communism in Eastern Europe faced unrest due to…
Failing economy
American pop bands making the U.S. attractive
Oppression and lack of freedom
Losing a war in Afghanistan
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What was arguably the 1st direct Soviet-US confrontation of the Cold War that led to NATO?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet-Afghan War
The Korean War
Divided postwar Europe & Berlin Airlift
8
Which statement about the Korean War is TRUE?
It was the first use of nuclear weapons during the Cold War
The result of the war was to reunite Korea
America started it by invading the North
North Korea & China fought us to a stalemate that continues
9
The Tiananmen Square Incident showed that China was willing to use force to…
Preserve a Communist economy
Preserve a Communist political system
Reunite Korea
Preserve its nuclear weapons
10
The nuclear arms race & invention of ICBMs led to the idea of M.A.D., which means…
Magic And Disbelief
Mutually Assured Destruction
Military Armed Deterrents
Mononuclear Area Dispersal
11
Founder of Communist China and author of the failed Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolutions
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Il-Sung
Deng Xiaoping
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When did the Tiananmen Square Incident (or Massacre) occur?
2001
1962
1989
1953
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This country split into a big Communist part & a small democratic island, & still is divided
Vietnam
Germany
Chile
China
14
Anti-Japanese guerrilla insurgent who led Communist North Korea
Kim Il-Sung
Ho Chi Minh
Mikhail Gorbachev
Augusto Pinochet
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What successful anti-Communist movement did John Paul II help to inspire?
Solidarity
Warsaw Pact
Bay of Pigs
NATO
