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Cold War.
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War?
a) Kennedy
b) Johnson
c) Khrushchev
d) McCarthy
The time in which the Soviet Union and the United States tried to make as many nuclear weapons as possible is known as the
a) weapons competition
b) arms race
c) Cold War
d) space race
Under which form of government did people have a better standard of living and political freedoms?
a) democracy
b) communist
c) it was the same
d) neither
The goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War was to
a) spread democracy
b) better the lives of people in Eastern Europe
c) prevent future wars
d) spread communism
The alliance of Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union formed during the Cold War was known as
a) NATO
b) Warsaw Pact
c) United Nations
d) League of Nations
What happened to Korea as a result of the Korean War?
a) it was reunited as a democratic country
b) it was reunited as a communist country
c) it became a colony of the Soviet Union
d) it was separated into two separate countries.
The Cuban Missile Crisis ALMOST resulted in
a) nuclear war
b) the reduction of nuclear weapons
c) Khrushchev and Kennedy becoming best friends
d) the US surrendering to the Soviet Union
Which side of the Iron Curtain had better economic opportunities and political freedoms?
a) Eastern Europe
b) Western Europe
c) They were the same.
d)
The Vietnam War and Korean War are considered proxy wars of which larger conflict?
a) WWII
b) WWI
c) Civil War
d) Cold War
Who led the Red Scare in America, which was a time of fear in America that Soviet spies were coming into the country.
a) Krushchev
b) McCarthy
c) Kennedy
d) Stalin
Why did we participate in the Berlin Airlift?
a) to help make West Berlin communist
b) we felt bad for the German people
c) to keep the Soviet Union from making West Berlin communist.
d) we were forced to because of the United Nations
What was the Iron Curtain?
a) wall built between East and West Berlin
b) Wall built between East and West Germany
c) Wall built between East and West Europe
d) an imaginary line dividing Eastern and Western Europe
Why was the Berlin Wall built?
a) to keep people from West Berlin from fleeing to East Berlin
b) to keep communist out of West Berlin
c) to have a way to protect the people from East Berlin
d) to keep people from East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin
The Vietnam War ended when
a) the communist were defeated
b) the US withdrew from Vietnam
c) the US took away all nuclear weapons from Vietnam
d) the US surrendered to North Vietnam
Cuba was a good location for the Soviet Union to place nuclear weapons because
a) Cuba had a democratic government
b) the Soviet Union wanted to defeat Cuba
c) most people in Cuba were from the Soviet Union
d) of its close location to America
The Berlin airlift was successful because
a) communism was defeated in Eastern Europe
b) people were kept from starviing
c) all citizens in West Berlin were removed
d) it destroyed the Berlin Wall.
The Vietnam War resulted in
a) Vietnam remaining two separate countries.
b) South Vietnam winning and Vietnam becoming democratic
c) North Vietnam winning and Vietnam becoming communist
d) The US taking over Vietnam
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