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1
Which statement best describes most Eastern European countries immediately after World War II?
emerged as world economic powers
became dependent on aid provided by the Marshall Plan
adopted democratic reforms in their political systems
became satellite states of the Soviet Union
2
The immediate cause of the U.S. military involvement in the Korean peninsula in 1950 was the
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
creation of the DMZ along the 38th parallel
attack by North Korea on South Korea
acquisition of a nuclear weapons by North Korea
3
Who was the leader of Communist North Vietnam during the Cold War?
Kim Jung Un
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Jung IL
Ngo Dinh Diem
4
What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Elimination of communism
Containment of communism
Assistance to British colonies in Africa
Implementation of the "Domino Theory.
5
Which term refers to a government where its citizens choose the leaders and the laws?
Totalitarian
Monarchy
Democracy
Socialist
6
What book did Karl Marx outline his concept of "class struggle" and communism?
Marxism
The Workers
The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital
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Which one is NOT a reason for the Fall of the USSR
Lack of Democracy
Command Economy
Overburdened Military
Increased control over East Germany
8
Truman’s response to the Berlin Blockade was
Airlift supplies into Berlin
Abandon Western Capitalist Democracies
Use military force to break the blockade
Create the policy of containment
9
One reason the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact was to
challenge the economic successes of the Common Market
ease the transition to democracy
limit the threat of invasion from Western Europe
help institute capitalism in Eastern Europe
10
In the 1950s, the domino theory was used by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to justify
sending federal troops into Korea
opposing Britain and France in the Suez Canal crisis
joining the United Nations
United States involvement in Vietnam
11
The Soviet Union’s reaction to the 1968 revolt in Czechoslovakia was to
send Soviet troops to occupy Czechoslovakia
withdraw Soviet troops from Eastern Europe
bring the matter to the attention of the United Nations
permit small political & economic reforms in Czechoslovakia
12
Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the trend toward private ownership represented a move away from
laissez-faire economics
a free-market economy
a command economy
a traditional economy
13
During the Cold War the U.S & USSR did not want to have direct military conflict because
pressure from nonaligned nations
increased tensions in the Middle East
the peacekeeping role of the United Nations
the potential for global nuclear destruction
14
Who popularized the term 'Iron Curtain' as a reference to the split
?
Winston Churchill.
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin.
15
The United States & Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should
Hold free elections to determine their futures
Restore their prewar monarchies
Become mandates of the Allies.
Join the Soviet Union
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The Berlin Wall was built in order to
Prevent food from entering Poland.
Prevent East Germans from defecting to West Germany
Stop the flow of supplies from West Germany to West Berlin
Prevent the smuggling of arms to anti-Soviet forces
17
Mikhail Gorbachev instituted the policies of glasnost and perestroika to
gain acceptance for free political elections
reform the Soviet Union politically and economically
bring the Soviet Union into the European Economic Community
reinforce the basic economic principles of communism
18
An economic system where most land, industry and business is owned by the government
Communism
Capitalism
Corporatism
Commercialism
19
Which Russian-born socialist led the Bolsheviks and became the first ruler of the Soviet Union?
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
20
The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is symbolic of the
end of the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe
collapse of the European Union
fall of the Weimar Republic
declining power of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization