Cold War 10th Grade

Question 1

Why did the US want to rebuild Europe after WWII?

Accepted Answer

To stop people from wanting to be communist

Question 2

Which policy of Gorbachev's changed communist total control of USSR's economy?

Accepted Answer

Perestroika

Question 3

The main reason the USSR fell in 1991?

Accepted Answer

Soviet soldiers refused to shoot their own people

Question 4

Why was the Berlin Wall built?

Accepted Answer

To keep people in East Germany

Question 5

What event began the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

North Korea invaded South Korea

Question 6

If NATO and Warsaw Pact would have went to war, where would that have happened?

Accepted Answer

Europe

Question 7

Mao began the Cultural Revolution for what purpose?

Accepted Answer

To regain full power

Question 8

Which of the following Cold War events was the most DANGEROUS of this time period?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 9

The creation of the UN was supposed to stop another world war by what method?

Accepted Answer

Being able to use force against aggressors

Question 10

Which organization did the USSR lead?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 11

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is use of what policy?

Accepted Answer

Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 12

What was the result of the Chinese Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Mainland China became communist

Question 13

Why did eastern European countries move away from communism in 1989?

Accepted Answer

The USSR stopped using military force

Question 14

The idea of stopping something before it starts is which of the following?

Accepted Answer

deterrence

Question 15

The Sino-Soviet split refers to problems between which set of countries?

Accepted Answer

USSR and China

Question 16

Which of the following USSR leaders began the de-Stalinization policy?

Accepted Answer

Krushchev

Question 17

Which of the following US presidents negotiated with Gorbachev?

Accepted Answer

Reagan

Question 18

Which policy removed government censorship in the USSR?

Accepted Answer

Glasnost

Question 19

All of the following countries had civil wars during the Cold War except which one?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 20

US President Johnson wanted to appear tough on communism which lead to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Tonkin Gulf

Question 21

Which country had the most nuclear weapons?

Accepted Answer

USSR

Question 22

Glasnost policy allowed for what in the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

free speech

Question 23

What was the domino theory?

Accepted Answer

If one country is allowed to go communist, others will also

Question 24

Which of the following events marked the beginning of the end of US involvement in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 25

All of the following reasons are why Gorbachev was a different Soviet leader except which one?

Accepted Answer

Fought in World War II

Question 26

Which of the following countries was there violence in 1989 during the end of Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Romania

Question 27

All of the following countries were split by Cold War politics except which one?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 28

Which of the following was a military victory but a psychological defeat for the US?

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 29

What was the name of the main US foreign policy throughout the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 30

What was the "Buffer Zone?"

Accepted Answer

Eastern Europe

Question 31

Which of the following would have been an outcome of the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

No land was exchanged

Question 32

The MAD policy assured that which country could win a nuclear war?

Accepted Answer

Nobody

Question 33

At the Yalta Conference in 1945, what was the USSR able to gain?

Accepted Answer

Eastern Europe

Question 34

What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

To stop western Europeans from being attracted to communism

Question 35

All of the following were leaders who brought communism to their country except which one?

Accepted Answer

Khrushchev

Question 36

Which event in 1989 proved that Chinese communism was not going to totally change?

Accepted Answer

Tiananmen Square

Question 37

Which country intervened directly to help North Korea during the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

China

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