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THE COLD COLD COLD WAR
THE COLD COLD COLD WAR
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1
The Iron Curtain
Shipbuilder Union in Poland
Wall in Berlin
Bad decorating idea
Symbolic division between communism and democracy
2
When the Soviets blockaded Berlin, we responded with
Berlin airlift
NATO
a new constitution
the Berlin Wall
3
The body of the United Nations which makes the most important decisions is the:
Congress
Parliament
General Assembly
Security Council
4
Who in the Soviet Union decided who the next ruler was?
the politburo
the current premier
a vote by the people
none of the above
5
When the Soviet Union broke up, how was Cuba affected?
their education went down
they lost $$$ which hurt the economy
it didn't affect them
none of the above
6
Which former satellite resisted change violently in 1989?
Czechoslovakia
Romania
East Germany
Poland
7
Ethnic cleansing is really
communism
a sanitation system
genocide
bringing water and sewers to all people
8
The shipbuilders' union in Poland was called:
Gdansk
Walesa
Warsaw Pact
Solidarity
9
Who is the current president of Russia?
Putin
Yeltsin
What president?
Trotsky
10
Which country had a bloody civil war in the 1980s and 1990s, and split up?
Russia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
11
Sputnik was
American satellite
a Soviet satellite
Soviet leader
Soviet spy association
12
Under which leader did communism end in the Soviet Union?
Stalin
Lenin
Gorbachev
Khruschev
13
The defensive alliance of western Europe, the US, and Canada was:
Warsaw Pact
SEATO
NATO
United Nations
14
What happened in the U2 Incident?
two Soviet Union spies were caught inside theWhite House
We saw launch sites in Cuba
we developed better nuclear technology
our plane was shot down by Soviets
15
Which country did not control one of Germany's zones after World War II?
Poland
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
16
Not taking sides as a country is also called:
partisan
nonaligned
bicameral
ignoration
17
Going to the edge of war is called
unaligned
brinkmanship
Cold War
challenging
18
Perestroika means
Open
political
restructuring
reunion
19
What did the Truman Doctrine want to contain?
taxes
all of the above
nuclear weapons
communism
20
Financial aid given to countries so they would not fall to communism
Truman Doctrine
Containment
NATO
Marshall Plan