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Cold War Questions for a high school modern world history class. #coldwar
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1
What event led to the start of the Space Race?
America's build up of nuclear weapons
Building of the International Space Station
Launch of Sputnik I
Apollo 11's moon landing
2
Student protests in the United States during the 1960's were mostly geared towards what?
Lack of traditional values in America
The Vietnam War
The poor economic conditions in the country
The Korean War
3
The main goal of the Apollo 11 space mission was to ... ?
Have the first American orbit the earth
Put the first human into outer space
Land the first man on Mars
Land the first man on the moon
4
All of the following describe Vladimir Putin and his polices EXCEPT
Increasing government control in Russian lives
Current leader in Russia
Former communist KGB agent
Cooperating with his European neighbors
5
What was the SPECIFIC purpose of the Berlin Wall?
The Wall didn't exist is was a metaphor for the Cold War
Divided East and West Berlin
Keep capitalism out of Berlin
Prevent East Berliners from going to the West
6
The Cuban Revolution was led by this future Communist leader of Cuba ?
Nikita Khrushchev
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
Fulgecio Batista
7
The U-2 spy plane led to a Cold War confrontation between the U.S. and _____________________?
Germany
Cuba
East Berlin
Soviet Union
8
An era of tension between capitalistic and communistic countries that occurred after WWII:
Marshall Plan
Cold War
Nationalism
Detente
9
Which of the following describes Korea today?
Split between communist North and capitalist South
Split into Eastern and Western halves
United under one communist dictator
Is considered one of the poorest countries on earth
10
U.S. fears of communism spreading were realized in 1949 when Mao created a communist state in:
East Germany
China
Vietnam
Korea
11
What event is featured in the newspaper article?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Marshall Plan
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Tet Offensive
12
Military alliance system of American allies in the North Atlantic:
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
NATO
Marshall Planners
13
This president demanded Soviets remove missiles it had placed in Cuba.
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Truman
Eisenhower
14
U.S. policy to stop communism in Vietnam to prevent the rest of Asia from falling to communism.
Domino Theory
Marshall Plan
Perestroika
Detente
15
The Soviet Union’s reaction the freedom movements in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was to:
Permit limited freedoms
Brought the matter to the United Nations
Sent Soviet troops and crushed the revolt
Remove Soviet troops from the country
