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Fidel Castro was the leader of...
West Germany
Cuba
Soviet Union
East Germany
2
President of U.S. 1961-1963
JFK
Reagan
3
The leader of Cambodia was
Syngman Rhee
Ho Chi Mihn
Diem
Pol Pot
4
Independent labor union
Workers' Union
AFL-CIO
Solidarity
Trade Union
5
"we will bury you" was a quote by
Stalin
Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Lenin
6
Leonid Brezhnev was president of
USSR
Romania
Poland
Czechoslovakia
7
The U.S. economy was different from the USSR because in the U.S...
There is more economic freedom
There are fewer goods available
The state makes all the decisions
There is less economic freedom
8
This general led the U.N. forces in South Korea
Bradley
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Patton
9
Warsaw troops sent tanks into this country to put down a rebellion
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
East Germany
10
In Cambodia, communist rebels called... overthrew the government
Khner Cong
Cambodian Cong
Khmer Rouge
Cambodian Rouge
11
Kim II Sung was the leader of South Korea
True
False
12
Warsaw troops were sent into this country to end limited democracy
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
13
Communist Rebels in Vietnam
Khmer Rouge
Viet Minh
Viet Cong
Vietnamese Army
14
Dr. King followed Gandhi's policies of
Peaceful protests and marches
Boycotts and sit-ins
Boycotts and peaceful protests
Boycotts and marches
15
U.N. forces stopped the advancement of the North Koreans at
Beijing
Pusan
Seoul
Saigon
16
Nations stronger than other powerful nations
Superpowers
Detente
17
What type of government did the Japanese constitution create
Constitutional Democracy
Parliamentary Democracy
Monarchy
Democracy
18
The new Japanese constitution restricted the amount of money spent on
infastructure
Military
Industrial complex
The economy
19
Area with no military force
Demilitarized zone
Peace zone
Neutral zone
Switzerland
20
The U.S. supported the non communist movement of Vietnam under Ho Chi Mihn
False
True
21
Movement of people to suburbs
Urbanization
Suburbanization
22
Leader of the Soviet Union introduced Perestroika, and Glasnost
Marx
Lenin
Gorbachev
Stalin
23
President of U.S. 1961-1963
Johnson
Carter
Kennedy
Reagan
24
Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of
Poland
Cuba
USSR
Romania
25
Muslim religious warriors
Viet Cong
Glasnost
Mujahedin
Peristroika
26
The nationalists were led by
Kim II Sung
Mao Zedong
Zhou en-Lai
Chiang kai Shek
27
The domino theory is the belief that a communist victory in the South would cause
Non-communist governments to fall to communism
Communist governments in Asia to declare war on the U.S.
North Vietnam to declare war on the U.S.
People of Vietnam to rebel against the communist government
28
In the 1950s, Americans were scared that there would be a nuclear war
True
False
29
Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of...
Cuba
East Germany
Soviet Union
West Germany
30
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" was said by
Eisenhower
Carter
Reagan
Kennedy
31
Japan's industry focused on building
Agricultural goods
Consumer goods
Military goods
Technology
32
Restructuring of the economy
Demilitarized zone
Glasnost
Reconstruction
Peristroika
33
President Eisenhower supported the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Panama
False
True
34
Period when the economy shrinks
Recession
Depression
35
Policy of greater openess
Perestroika
Glasnost
36
A system of values
Ideology
Segregation
37
President Eisenhower finally ended segregation in the armed forces
True
False
38
During the 1970s, president Nixon visited both
Soviet Union and China
North Korea and Cuba
China and Cuba
Soviet Union and Cuba
39
Vaclav Havel was president of
Romania
Czechoslovakia
USSR
Poland
40
Containment was the strategy America used to...
Limit communism to the areas already under Soviet control
Impose economic sanctions on communist countries
Ensure that communism did not gain a foothold in the U.S.
financial incentives to communist countries, adopt democracy
41
Forced pooling of peasant land
Collectivization
Discimination
42
Konrad Adenauer was the leader of
Cuba
East Germany
West Germany
USSR
43
He was chancellor of West Germany
Brandt
Goering
Brezhnev
Adenauer
44
Soviets had nuclear missiles in Cuba during
Havana Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Soviet Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
45
Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Kim Il Sung
Pol Pot
Diem
Ho Chi Minh
46
Leader of South Korea
Pol Pot
Kim Jong Il
Diem
Syngman Rhee
47
Under President Kennedy, military involvement in Vietnam escalated
True
False
48
The Korean war was fought while these men were president
Eisenhower and Kennedy
Truman and Eisenhower
Roosevelt and Truman
Kennedy and Johnson
49
President of U.S. 1981-1989
Johnson
Kennedy
Carter
Reagan
50
Relaxation of Cold War tensions
Ideology
Detente
51
"Ich bin ein Berliner" was a quote by
Reagan
Carter
Kennedy
Eisenhower
52
Not letting communism spread
Isolationism
Containment
53
JFK was President during the Korean War
True
False
54
The U.S. and the USSR fought each other during the Cold War
True
False
55
Lech Walesa was president of
Romania
Czzechoslovakia
USSR
Poland
56
The Soviets removed the missiles from Cuba and the U.S. removed their missiles from
West Germany
Israel
Greece
Turkey
57
He led South Korea
Pol Pot
Kim II Sung
Syngman Rhee
Ho Chi Mihn
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Leader of North Vietnam
Pol Pot
Ho Chi Mihn
Kim Jong Il
Diem
59
The Communist government of China was led by
Kim II Sung
Chiang Kai Shek
Mao Zedong
Zhou en-Lai
60
Leader of North Korea
Kim II Sung
Kim Jong Un
61
South Korea is Communistic
False
True
62
Missiles that shoot down missles
Anti-Ballistic Missiles
Anti-Missile Missiles
63
When the Berlin Wall was built, the head of the Soviet Union was
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
64
Gross domestic product figures the value of goods/services a nation buys or sells in a year
True
False
65
The term "Iron Curtain" countries was coined by...
FDR
Neville Chamberlain
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
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Fidel Castro overthrew this dictator to lead Cuba
Batista
Ho Chi Mihn
Diem
Walesa
67
Unequal treatment of minorities
Discrimination
Segregation
68
The Nationalists of China fled to the island of
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Formosa
Macao
69
NATO is the acronym for
North American Trade Organization
North American Treaty Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North Atlantic Trade Organization
70
The Great Leap Forward was a program designed to
Protect North Korea from South Korea
Increase farm and industrial output in China
Spread Chinese communism throughout Asia
Purge china of bourgeois tendencies
71
Who was the Civil Rights leader that delivered the famous "I have a dream" speech
Dwight David Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King jr.
Medgar Evers
72
Forced Separation by race
Segregation
Discrimination
73
To boost farm/industrial production the Chinese Communists instituted the Cultural Revolution
False
True
74
When the Berlin Wall was torn down, the head of the Soviet Union was
Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Stalin
Lenin
75
Nicolae Ceausescu was leader of
Czechoslovakia
USSR
Poland
Romania
76
JFK was President during the ________ W
Desert Storm
WWII
Korean war
Vietnam war
77
Great Britain was considered one of the superpowers
True
False