End Of The Cold War Question Preview (ID: 50223)
Spring Unit 3.
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Which are related to U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
a) Vietnamization plan, Harry Truman, homeland security
b) Tet Offensive, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, antiwar protests
c) Antiwar protests, all volunteer army, support for North Vietnam
d) Camp David Accords, Nikita Khrushchev, Dwight Eisenhower
Why was the United States opposed to Ho Chi Minh's leadership of North Vietnam?
a) He was not a democratically elected leader.
b) He was the ruler of the communist government of North Vietnam and was backed by the Soviet Union.
c) He had supported the Japanese in World War II.
d) He wanted too much financial and military support from the United States.
Whom did the United States support as the leader of the anti-communist government of South Vietnam?
a) Khmer Rouge
b) Ngo Dinh Diem
c) Mao Zedong
d) Ho Chi Minh
Which happened after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia?
a) Freedom of speech disappeared.
b) Alexander Dubcek was promoted as director of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia.
c) The reforms of the Prague Spring were accelerated.
d) The manifesto called The Two Thousands Words was published in Moscow.
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was often equated with the U.S. conflict in __________.
a) Vietnam
b) World War II
c) Korea
d) World War I
Why did the Soviet press call Margaret Thatcher the Iron Lady?
a) She was hard-nosed and unfeeling toward her constituents.
b) She rode around London in an iron carriage.
c) She demonstrated an unbending opposition to communism.
d) Her foreign policy with democratic nations was ironclad.
How did Gorbachev's reforms affect the Soviet satellite states?
a) The people increased their demands for more freedom from Communist Party rule.
b) None of the answers
c) Dissidents became very afraid for their lives and no longer protested.
d) Fearing change, the people agreed to continue to live under totalitarian oppression.
What do these have in common, Helsinki Accords, words of Pope John Paul II, Solidarity, glasnost
a) They convinced people in the Soviet bloc that democracy was not attainable.
b) They reinforced totalitarian oppression.
c) They helped bring an end to communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
d) They all came from the Russian leaders of the Communist party.
What was the effort to ease tensions between the United States and the USSR in the 1970s called?
a) the Warsaw Pact
b) MAD( Mutual Assured Destruction)
c) coup d'etat
d) detente
One of the main reasons the Soviet Union collapsed was
a) The southern republics started a civil war
b) The assassination of the key soviet leaders
c) A nuclear disaster at Chernobyl destroyed the confidence of the people
d) The Soviet Union was left behind Western countries due to economic problems
The policy in Russia that was known as “perestroika” meant
a) restructuring
b) candor
c) openness
d) truth
Upon which idea is glasnost based?
a) expansion of the United States influence in western Europe
b) Openness and transparency of speech and policies
c) a return to the ideals of Stalinism
d) Reinstating the monarchy in the Soviet Union
When U.S. Troops left South Vietnam what happened in that region?
a) North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and created a single communist nation.
b) South Vietnam democratically elected a new leader.
c) Eisenhower's domino theory proved inaccurate and the communists took over South Vietnam
d) An anticommunist dictator continued to rule South Vietnam.
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