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Cold War Quiz 3
1. What does this photograph indicate about the United States in the 1950s?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Extraordinary steps were taken to hide atomic weapons.
The nation had become the only nuclear superpower.
Much fear was created by the Cold War.
Only government officials would be safe in a nuclear attack.
2. Which event led directly to the end of the cold war?
a. reunification of Germany
b. formation of the European Union
c. breakup of the Soviet Union
d. creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
3. The cartoonist is commenting on which Cold War foreign policy?
a. détente
b. brinkmanship
c. the domino theory
d. collective security
4. The primary purpose of President Richard Nixon’s policy of détente was to
a. expand United States military involvement in Southeast Asia
b. assure an adequate supply of oil from the Middle East
c. ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union
d. maintain a favorable balance of trade with China
“I think it will be a safer world and
a better world if we have a strong,
healthy United States, Europe,
Soviet Union, China, Japan, each
balancing the other, not playing one
against the other, an even balance.”
— Richard Nixon, 1972
5. President Nixon put this idea into practice by
a. expanding economic relations with communist nations
b. abandoning his policy of détente
c. declaring an end to the Korean War
d. ending collective security agreements
6. Since the Russian people rejected communism in the early 1990’s, the United States has
provided support to the new nation by
a. creating a military alliance with Russia
b. destroying most United States nuclear weapons
c. opposing the independence of the other Russian republics
d. giving foreign aid to Russia in the form of low-interest loans
7. The beginning of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe is most closely
associated with the
a. fall of the Berlin Wall
b. admission of Warsaw Pact nations to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
c. intervention of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Yugoslavia
d. formation of the European Union
8. A major development in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States
occurred in the late 1980’s when the two nations agreed to
a. purchase all their oil from Mexico
b. withdraw from the United Nations
c. eliminate a group of nuclear missiles
d. ban arms sales to developing nations
9. Soviet-American relations took a turn for the worse when Soviet armies invaded
_________________________________ in 1979, leading President Carter to cut trade
with the Soviets, cancel SALT II arms reduction, and boycott the Moscow Olympics.
10. President Gorbachev used two Russian words, ____________________________ and
perestroika, to refer to political and economic reforms underway in the Soviet Union in
the late 1980s.
11. The United States became the only superpower in the world when
a.
b.
c.
d.
American forces won World War II.
The Soviet Union ceased to exist.
The Persian Gulf War was over.
Peace came to the Middle East.