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Cold War Review
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Review of the causes and beginning of the Cold War
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What was the name of the group in South Vietnam that supported the North?
Viet Cong
Red Army
Vietnamese
Viet Com
2
What became the symbol of the Cold War?
Germany
US & Soviet Flags
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
3
When pilot Francis Powers was shot down, it became known as what?
Spy Program
U2 Incident
Cuban Missile Crisis
Espionage
4
When did the Soviet Union fall?
1989
1991
1990
1988
5
What happened in 1949 that caused the US to start building up their arms arsenal?
We knew the atomic bomb was successful.
We lost the Vietnam War.
We lost the Korean War.
USSR detonated their first atomic bomb.
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What event during World War II is cited as a cause of the Cold War?
Atomic Bomb
D-Day Invasion
Iwo Jima
Midway
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Who was the president of the United States at the beginning of the Cold War?
Churchill
Stalin
Truman
Hitler
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What year is identified as the beginning of the Cold War?
1945
1949
1944
1947
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Who supported a Cuban Revolution?
Castro
Mexico
USSR
US
10
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War?
Churchill
Truman
Hitler
Stalin
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What plan did the US develop to help rebuild war torn Western Europe?
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Rollback
12
What type of war was the Vietnam War?
Proxy War
Guerilla War
Satellite War
Phony War
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Where, specifically, did the first confrontation of the Cold War take place?
Asia
Germany
Europe
Berlin
14
What alliance did the US initiate after the Soviet Union tested their first nuclear weapon?
Warsaw Pact
UN
WTO
NATO
15
After the Korean War, where did the two sides agree to divide the peninsula?
48th parallel
28th parallel
38th parallel
58th parallel
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What was the agreement between the US and Soviet Union regarding the number of nuclear weapons?
NATO
mutally assured destruction
mutal agreement for removal
SALT
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What was the agreed upon border between North and South Korea?
38th parallel
48th parallel
Ural Mountains
Eastern Alps
18
In response to the US alliance, what alliance did the Soviet Union initiate?
Mutual Protection
Communist Agreement
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Agreement
19
When the Soviets launched Sputnik, the US started to spend money on NASA became known as what?
STEM
Armament Race
Race to the Moon
Space Race
20
What was the name of the conference where free elections in Eastern Europe were agreed upon?
Yalta
Potsdam
Geneva
Versailles
21
What plan did the US implement to provide aid to countries fighting communism?
rollback
containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
22
What were the names of Gorbachev's policies that began the decline of the Soviet Union?
perestroika & glasnost
glasnost & gorbachev
perestroika & gorbachev
breshnev & nikita
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What was the US supported invasion of Cuba known as?
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Revolution
Coup d'etat
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What started the relations between the US and Communist China?
Tiananmen Square
Ping-Pong
Chinese Civil War
the Olympics