stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Cold War Class Project 3604 Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Cold War Class Project 3604
Cold War Class Project 3604
20 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
17 plays
Imported from external platform
Flashcards
20 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
20
Answers
1
Which of the following resulted from McCathryism in the 1950s?
Membership in the US Communist party increased.
Citizens in the US began to express dissenting viewpoints more freely.
US citizens were arrested for being suspected communists.
Recruitment procedures for the US military branch were reformed.
2
What was the Marshal plan?
A plan to encourage the spread of communism throughout Europe.
A plan to provide aid to every country damaged in World War II.
A plan to provide monetary aid to any European country that needed it.
A plan to split Germany into two states.
3
What was the name of the plan that was equivalent to the economic aid of the Marshal Plan?
Gorbachev Plan.
Molotav Plan.
Stalin's Gift.
Pererstroika.
4
Which was signed first, the North Atlantic Trade Agreement or the Warsaw Pact?
NATO
Warsaw Pact
5
After World War II, why did tensions rise between the US and the Soviet Union?
They had been on opposite sides in the war.
They both wanted to expand their territory for global domination.
The Soviet Union wished to spread communism.
The US was interested in the growth and recovery of Europe.
6
Which event lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
All of the above.
Gorbachev's market and free speach reforms.
Unsuccesful coup against Gorbachev by military leaders.
Ethnic and idealogical tensions in the USSR.
7
What was the main goal of the Tuman Doctrine?
Stop the spread of communism.
Establish better relations with the USSR.
Stop the USSR from spreading democracy.
Jumpstart Europes economy.
8
It was an effort by the Soviet Union to block itself from open contact with the West.
North Atlantic Trade Agreement
Warsaw Pact.
Iron Curtain.
Cold War.
9
What was the intention of the Glasnost policies put in place by Gorbachev?
To provide incentives for industries to become more competitive with the US
To improve the military industrial complex to counteract the US.
To allow the freer dissemination of news and information.
To rectify and modernize the countries failing economy.
10
Before the end of World War II the relationship between the US and Soviet Union...
Began to unravel
Remained cooperative
11
What was the primary reason for the soviet invasion of Afganistan in the 1980's?
Control by US backed government.
Anti-communist Muslim gorillas fighting against the government.
Key strategic interest in the region.
Response to invasion by Nato forces.
12
A communist revolution and nuclear weapons in which country threatened America and almost caused a war?
Cuba
Vietnam
Afganistan
North Korea
13
How did the US respond to the Soviets first explosion of an atomic bomb.
By offering a denuclearization treaty.
By exploding a hydrogen bomb.
By forming NATO.
By invading Russia.
14
What were the border nations between the USSR and the West serving as a buffer zone called?
Free States.
Stalins Wall.
Iron Curtain.
Satellite Nations.
15
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA.
:redacted:
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Disaster in Cuba
Bay of Pigs
16
How did the outcome of the Chinese Civil War add to tension in the Cold War?
None of the above.
It affirmed the US belief that communism was spreading fast.
China became a rival third party in the Cold War.
The Chinese provided aid to the US.
17
The first satellite launched into space was...
Sputnik
Apollo II
Discovery
NCC-1701
18
What happened as a result of the USSR's invasion of Afganistan?
Boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
Reduced trade between Erupe and USSR.
The US began supporting Muslim Guerrilla groups on the ground.
Weakened ties with PRC.
19
Senator Joseph McCarthy is best know for his involvment in...
The pullout of Vietnam in the 1970s.
The Red Scare of the 1950s.
The War effort of the 1940s.
The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
20
What was the goal of the Perestroika reforms introduced in the 1980's by Gorbachev?
To allow the freer dissemination of news and information.
To provide incentives for industries to become more competitive with the US
To rectify and modernize the countries failing economy.
To improve the military industrial complex to counteract the US.
