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In 1962, which country allowed the Soviet Union to place missiles there that were aimed at the United States?
a) Germany
b) Cuba
c) Berlin
d) North Korea
Which event was the closest the world has ever been to nuclear war?
a) Korean War
b) Cuban Missile Crisis
c) Vietnam War
d) World War II
Why did the Soviet Union break apart into 15 independent countries?
a) economic problems prevented the Soviet Union from keeping these countries together
b) the people in the Soviet Union voted to break apart
c) the United States forced the Soviet Union to break apart and use democracy
d) communism was so successful that the Soviet Union was able to spread it to these 15 countries
What did the iron curtain separate?
a) Democratic West Berlin from Communist East Germany
b) Democratic western Europe from communist eastern Europe
c) the United States from the Soviet Union
d) East Germany from West Germany
Why was the Berlin Wall built?
a) to keep East German people from fleeing to West Berlin
b) to keep East German people from fleeing to East Berlin
c) to keep West German people from fleeing to West Berlin
d) to keep West German people from fleeing to East Berlin
a policy that allowed people to disagree with the government and participate more in the government
a) perestroika
b) glasnost
c) domino theory
d) demilitarized
an economic program that loosened the way the government controlled businesses. Some private property and profit were allowed
a) glasnost
b) perestroika
c) demilitarized
d) domino theory
leader of communist North Vietnam
a) Mao Zedong
b) Chaing Kai-Shek
c) Ho Chi Minh
d) Kim Jong Un
leader of Cuba during Cuban missile crisis
a) Fidel Castro
b) Mikhail Gorbachev
c) John F. Kennedy
d) Nikita Khruschev
leader of Communist China
a) Chiang Kai-Shek
b) Ho Chi Minh
c) Nikita Khruschev
d) Mao Zedong
How did the Korean War end?
a) North Korea won and all of Korea became communist
b) South Korea won and none of Korea is communist
c) it was a tie and they remain divided
d)
How did the Vietnam War end?
a) North Vietnam won and all of Vietnam became communist
b) South Vietnam won and none of Vietnam is communist
c) it was a tie and they remain divided
d)
leader of Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis and who built the Berlin Wall
a) Nikita Khruschev
b) Mikhail Gorbachev
c) Joseph Stalin
d) Vladimir Lenin
Who won the Cold War?
a) Soviet Union
b) United States
c) Vietnam
d) Korea
a nation whose policies revolved around the Soviet Union's influence was called a
a) superpower
b) satellite nation
c) capitalism
d) representative democracy
a policy to stop the spread of communism
a) superpower
b) capitalism
c) satellite nation
d) containment
Why was the Berlin Airlift necessary?
a) the U.S. blockaded Berlin, so the Soviet Union had to airlift supplies to Western Berlin
b) the U.S. blockaded Berlin, so the Soviet Union had to airlift supplies to Eastern Berlin
c) the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin, so the United States had to airlift supplies to Western Berlin
d) the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin, so the United States had to airlift supplies to Eastern Berlin
What type of government does the United States have?
a) totalitarian
b) communist
c) capitalism
d) democracy
What type of government did the Soviet Union have?
a) totalitarian
b) communist
c) capitalism
d) democracy
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
a) to end World War II
b) to occupy Germany and divide it into 4 zones
c) to prevent the spread of communism by sending money and weapons to defeat communist rebels in Greece and Turkey
d) to give $13 billion to countries in Western Europe to rebuild after World War II so that these countries would not be tempted
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