What was Vietnamization?

US policy of slowly withdrawing from Vietnam

Stopping the spread of Communism

What was the Red Guard?

Militia units that carried out the Cultural Revolution

What was the Great Leap Forward?

Attempt to grow China's agricultural economy

What was the Politurbo?

The ruling committee of the Communist Party

What was the agreed upon at the Geneva Accords?

Divide Vietnam along the 17th Parallel

What turned the tide in the Korean War?

General MacArthur's pincer move

What is the Domino Theory?

When one country falls to Communism, more will

What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?

US program that protected against long range missiles

What was the Long March?

The retreat of the Communists across China

What nations had the power to veto in the UN?

US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, China

What did the SALT treaty do?

Limited the amount of missiles the US and USSR could make

What was the Bay of Pigs?

The failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro

Increased transparency of the Soviet government

What is the correct order of Soviet leaders?

Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin

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1
Who was the leader who held 55 people hostage for 444 days?
Shah Mohammad Pahlavi
Saddam Hussein
Daniel Ortega
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
2
What was Vietnamization?
US policy to give the President more wartime power
US policy of getting involved in Vietnam due to containment
US policy of slowly withdrawing from Vietnam
US policy to protect countries threatened by Communism
3
What was the supply line of the Viet Cong known as?
Ho Chi Minh Trail
The Long March
The Hindu Kush Pass
The Bataan Death March
4
What is containment?
When one country falls to Communism, more will
The USSR will help any country threatened by Democracy
The US will help any country threatened by Communism
Stopping the spread of Communism
5
Who was the leader of the Nationalists during the Chinese Civil War?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hideki Tojo
Mao Zedong
Pu Yi
6
Why did the Soviet Union not stop the UN from giving the US troops?
They didn't care about the US
They knew the action would be vetoed in the UN
They were boycotting the UN
The Soviets were confident of victory
7
What country possessed Vietnam as a colony?
United States
France
Japan
Great Britain
8
What was the Red Guard?
Mao's personal bodyguards
Supporters of Communist rule
Communist rebels in China
Militia units that carried out the Cultural Revolution
9
What was the Great Leap Forward?
Attempt to bring Communism to China
Attempt to grow China's agricultural economy
The final phase of the Cultural Revolution
Attempt to bring Democracy to China
10
What was the Politurbo?
The ruling committee of the Communist Party
The increased transparency of the Soviet government
Economic restructuring of the Soviet Union
The easing of Communism in the Soviet Union
11
What Socialist leader a Communist revolution in Cuba?
Simone Bolivar
Mao Zedong
Fidel Castro
Joseph Stalin
12
Who was the leader of the Polish Solidarity movement?
Wladyslaw Gomuika
Lech Walesa
Alexander Dubcek
Irmy Nagy
13
What revolutionary organization did Daniel Ortega lead?
Contras
La Raza Unida
Sandanistas
Solidarity
14
What was the agreed upon at the Geneva Accords?
Divide Vietnam along the 38th Parallel
Divide Vietnam along the 17th Parallel
Vietnam should be Communist
Vietnam should be Democratic
15
What was the Cultural Revolution?
All of the Above
Portray peasants as the heroes of Communism
Put down artistic and intellectual thought in China
Attempt to start another Communist revolution in China
16
Who was the leader of Democratic China?
Pu Yi
Mao Zedong
Hideki Tojo
Sun Yat Sen
17
What turned the tide in the Korean War?
The involvement of the United States
The involvement of China
General MacArthur's pincer move
The bitter conditions in Korea
18
Who was the leader in South Vietnam?
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Pol Pot
Ngo Dinh Diem
19
Who was the leader of the Communists during the Chinese Civil War?
Mao Zedong
Pu Yi
Hideki Tojo
Chiang Kai-Shek
20
What is the Domino Theory?
Trying to prevent the spread of Communism
The US policy to help any nation threatened by Communism
When one country falls to Communism, more will
The method used to attack Communist countries
21
Who was the US general for the Korean War?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General George S. Patton
General Douglas MacArthur
General William Westmoreland
22
What is Maoism?
Chinese branded Communism
Chinese branded Democracy
Bringing democracy to China
Setting up a command economy in China
23
What part of the world did the superpowers try to influence the most?
Third World
Second World
First World
Europe
24
What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?
US plan to protect against a Cuban invasion
Soviet plan to protect against a German invasion
US program that protected against long range missiles
Limited the amount of missiles the US and USSR could make
25
Who was the leader of Communist Cambodia?
Sun Yat Sen
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Pol Pot
26
Where was Korea divided?
28th Parallel
30th Parallel
38th Parallel
17th Parallel
27
Which group overthrew the Qing Dynasty?
The Japanese
The Kuomintang
The Taiping
The Communists
28
What was the Long March?
The retreat of the Nationalists across China
The retreat of the Japanese across China
The retreat of the Soviets across China
The retreat of the Communists across China
29
What nations had the power to veto in the UN?
US, Soviet Union, Japan, France, Canada
US, Soviet Union, China, Germany, Japan
US, Soviet Union, China, France, Spain
US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, China
30
What was perestroika?
The ruling committee of the Communist Party
Increased transparency of the Soviet government
Introducing democratic principles in the Soviet Union
Economic restructuring
31
What strategy, that the superpowers pursued, does the U2 plane incident fit in?
Satellite Wars
Espionage
Brinkmanship
Multinational Alliances
32
What did the SALT treaty do?
Resolved the war in Korea
Resolved the war in Vietnam
Limited the amount of missiles the US and USSR could make
US defense system to protect against long range missiles
33
What was the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union putting missiles in Cuba
The name given to the Communist revolution in Cuba
The failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
The USS Maddox being attacked off the coast of Vietnam
34
Who was the leader of North Vietnam?
Pol Pot
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mao Zedong
35
What was a symbol of Soviet oppression during the Cold War?
Chernobyl Incident
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
U2 Incident
36
What was the name of the Nicaraguan dictator that was supported by the US?
Daniel Ortega
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
Anastasio Somoza
37
Who were the leaders at the Yalta Conference?
Truman, Churchill, Stalin
Roosevelt, Churchill, Khrushchev
Roosevelt, Atlee, Stalin
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
38
What was Glasnost?
Ruling committee of the Communist Party
Increased transparency of the Soviet government
Economic restructuring
Introducing democratic principles in the Soviet Union
39
What caused tensions between the US and Soviet Union after WWII?
US didn't tell the Soviet Union about the Atomic Bomb
All of the Above
Differing political and economic ideologies
Where the US opened up a second front in WWII
40
What was the main issue that Soviet satellite states faced after independence?
Social unrest
Political upheval
Economic uncertainty
Soviet sanctions
41
What was the Chinese response as the United States approached their borders?
They gave in to the US
They started to bomb South Korea
They sent in 300,000 troops
They turned their backs on the North Koreans
42
What is the correct order of Soviet leaders?
Stalin, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Brezhnev
Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin
Stalin, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Khrushchev, Yeltsin
Stalin, Gorbachev, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Khrushchev

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