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Review for our Cold War test.
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1
What event is shown in this picture?
Reunification
Cuban Missile Crisis
World War I
Russian Revolution
2
West Berlin was located in East Germany.
True
False
3
To solve the dispute over how to reestablish Germany's govt, the US & USSR decided to ______.
leave it alone & let the people work it out themselves.
allow France to determine Germany's future government.
go to war.
split Germany down the middle & instituted both governments.
4
After WWII, the US wanted Germany to be ____ while the USSR wanted it to be ____.
socialist, communist
socialist, communist
democratic, autocracy
democratic, communist
5
What term means: country dominant in military & political strength?
Iron Curtain
Cold War
communism
Superpowers
6
Who is the person in the picture?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Kruschchev
Ronald Reagan
Fidel Castro
7
After Germany was reunified, the country chose to be a democracy.
True
False
8
What term means: government controls everything?
Cold War
communism
Iron Curtain
superpowers
9
Symbolizes what event?
World War II
Cuban Missile Crisis
World War I
Russian Revolution
10
Who is the person in the picture?
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
FDR
11
The Soviet Union split into 15 republics in 1991.
TRUE
FALSE
12
Who is represented in the painting?
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Krushchev
Vladimir Lenin
Mikhail Gorbachev
13
Time of distrust, misunderstanding, and spying between the US and USSR.
WWII
Space Wars
Russian Revolution
Cold War
14
Who is the person in the picture?
Fidel Castro
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
15
_______ ________ had a defense plan that was sometimes called "Star Wars."
Franklin D Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
George W Bush
Ronald Reagan
16
Mikhail Gorbachev increased military spending & continued Cold War policies.
TRUE
FALSE
17
Germany has never been reunited into one country.
FALSE
TRUE
18
Shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, what happened to East & West Germany?
The Soviet Union invaded East Germany.
Germany was reunified as one country.
Both countries became communist governments.
Very little changed & Germany continued to be split.
19
The ______ was ahead in space technology, while the ______ was ahead in nuclear technology.
Russia, China
China, USA
USA, Russia
Soviet Union, USA
20
The Soviet economy was a strong, growing economy that was out producing the United States.
FALSE
TRUE
21
What term means: dividing line between Eastern & Western Europe?
Communism
Berlin Wall
Iron Curtain
Cold War
22
What term means: tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
Cold War
Superpowers
Iron Curtain
Communism
23
The Warsaw Pact was to the Soviet Union as NATO was to the _____.
Eastern Bloc
European Union
United States
League of Nations
24
When was the Cold War?
After World War II
before World War I
Between World War I and World War II
before the Russian Revolution.
25
What were the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) & the Warsaw Pact?
New alliances established after WWII.
Go Green Groups
New international football teams
Russia's political parties.
26
This is the leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Who am I?
Fulgencio Batista
Nikita Krushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
John F. Kennedy
27
What led to the downfall of the USSR?
The Russian Revolution hurt the economy
The USSR's economy was so unstable & Germany reunification.
The USSR lost World War II and suffered loss.
The economy grew and flourished beyond its control.
28
The USSR had nuclear technology while the USA did not.
False
True
29
Used during the Cold War as info, usually misleading or biased; designed to promote an ideology
independence
armistice
revolution
propaganda
30
Because so many people left East Berlin for West Berlin, the leaders in East Berlin ____.
charged a high tax for crossing the border.
started a civil war.
gave up & joined West Berlin.
built the Berlin Wall to stop people from crossing over.
31
Which country helped Cuba after the U.S. refused to sell them products?
Mexico
Venezuela
Great Britain
Soviet Union
32
The city of Berlin was divided after World War II.
FALSE
TRUE
33
Who took over as dictator of Cuba in 1959?
Adolf Hitler
Fidel Castro
Joseph Stalin
Fulgencio Batista
