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Cold War Study Guide
1. What type of government was the Soviet Union?
a. Capitalist
b. Communist
c. Socialist
d. Democratic
2. What U.S. policy was intended to stop Soviet expansion and stop the spread of communism?
a. Glasnost
b. Truman
c. Isolationism
d. Containment
3. What plan spent $400 billion in aid to Western countries to keep them from falling to
communism?
a. Marshall
b. Truman
c. McCarthy
d. MacArthur
4. After WWII, Germany was split into 4 zones. The U.S., France, and Great Britain merged their
zones, however, Russia refused to give up their zone. This created ____ Germany and
____Germany.
a. East and West
b. North and South
c. East and South
d. West and North
5. What split East and West Berlin?
a. The Berlin River
b. The Great German wall
c. The German River
d. The Berlin Wall
6. What ended WWII, but started the Cold War?
a. The Holocaust
b. Pearl harbor
c. The second atomic bomb
d. WWI
7. Mao Zedong set up a communist government in this country in 1949
a. China
b. Japan
c. Laos
d. Cambodia
8. This international peace keeping organization was meant to replace the failed League of Nations
a. NATO
b. Warsaw Pact
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c. Truman Doctrine
d. The United Nations
The United States created this alliance with other friendly Western European countries
a. NATO
b. Warsaw Pact
c. Truman Doctrine
d. United Nations
In response to the NATO pact, the Soviet Union created this pact
a. NATO
b. Warsaw Pact
c. Truman Doctrine
d. United Nations
Prior to WWII, who ruled Korea?
a. Japan
b. The United States
c. France
d. Russia
Who was the communist leader of North Korea after WWII?
a. Kim Jung Un
b. Kim Il Sung
c. Ngo Dinh Diem
d. Ho Chi Minh
Who sent forces to fight communist aggression in South Korea
a. NATO
b. Warsaw
c. The UN
d. Nixon
Who was supplying North Korea with tanks and other weapons?
a. The Soviet Union
b. The United States
c. Turkey
d. Japan
What troops came to communist North Koreas defense?
a. Chinese
b. Japanese
c. Cambodia
d. Vietnamese
What General wanted to invade China and was fired by President Truman for criticizing him in
the media?
a. McCarthy
b. Stalin
c. MacArthur
d. McDonald
Where was the border for North and South Korea set at the end of the war?
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a. 17th parallel
b. 18th parallel
c. 38th parallel
d. 37th parallel
People scared that communist traitors would overthrow the U.S. government is referred to as
the
a. Blue Scare
b. Yellow Scare
c. Purple Scare
d. Red Scare
Senator who increased the Red Scare by stating he had 205 names of state department
employees who were communist party members
a. Douglass MacArthur
b. Dwight D Eisenhower
c. John McCain
d. Joseph McCarthy
Why did Joseph McCarthy lose his support and be disciplined by the U.S. government?
a. He was unable to provide evidence for his claims
b. He was right about the state department employees
c. He was caught stealing money
d. He criticized President Truman to the media over not invading China
The Soviet Union and the United States stock piling atomic weapons and missiles is known as
a. Mutually assured destruction
b. Cuban Missile Crisis
c. The Arms Race
d. Bay of Pigs
The Soviet Satellite launched into orbit was named
a. Potato
b. Sputnik
c. Spud
d. Russian Satellite 1
Americans feared they were falling behind the Soviets in the arms race after this Soviet leader
bragged they were turning out missiles “like sausages.”
a. Vladimir Lenin
b. Joseph Stalin
c. Nikita Khrushchev
d. Mikhail Gorbachev
In response to the launching of Sputnik, the United States
a. Created NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
b. Boosted their Science Program in Schools
c. Created the Star Wars Program
d. Both a and b
This person led a revolution in Cuba and set up a socialist state
a. Fulgencio Batista
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b. Fidel Castro
c. Nikita Khrushchev
d. Kim Il Sung
The failed attempt by the United States to send Cuban exiles back to Cuba to overthrow Castro
is known as
a. Bay of Pigs Invasion
b. Cuban Missile Crisis
c. Platt amendment
d. Containment policy
The event where the United States discovered that the Soviet Union was building missile bases
in Cuba is known as
a. Bay of Pigs Invasion
b. Cuban Missile Crisis
c. Platt Amendment
d. Containment Policy
In response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy ordered a ____ on Soviet Ships trying
to enter Cuba
a. Warrant
b. Destruction
c. Blockade
d. Trade
After tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis eased, President Kennedy and Khrushchev set up
_____ to avoid further conflicts
a. A “hotline”
b. A ceasefire
c. A Treaty
d. Nothing
M.A.D. stands for
a. Mad at Dan
b. Maybe another Day
c. Mutually Annihilation Determined
d. Mutually Assured Destruction
What Vietnamese communist led North Vietnam after WWII?
a. Kim Il Sung
b. Kim Jung Un
c. Ho Chi Minh
d. Ngo Dinh Diem
Who was the President of South Vietnam?
a. Kim Il Sung
b. Kim Jung Un
c. Ho Chi Minh
d. Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem passed a law that allowed him to arrest and jail suspected _____ without formal charges.
This angered the people in South Vietnam
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a. Capitalists
b. Socialists
c. Democrats
d. Communists
Vietcong guerrillas were hard to identify because
a. They just looked like villagers
b. Could be men, women, or even children
c. Did not wear uniforms
d. All of the Above
The National Liberation Front (Vietcong) was meant to unite
a. Communist and anticommunists
b. Republican and Democrats
c. Socialists and antisocialists
d. No one
United States believed that if South Vietnam fell to communism, the other surrounding
countries would also fall to communism. This was known as the
a. Darwin Theory
b. Dice Theory
c. Decontainment Theory
d. Domino Theory
After American ships were attacked by North Vietnamese forces, President Johnson urged
congress to pass what? This allowed the U.S. to bomb North Vietnam and some targets in South
Vietnam
a. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
b. The Gulf of Mexico Resolution
c. The Bay of Pigs Resolution
d. The Missile Crisis Resolution
How did the U.S. get soldiers for the Vietnam War
a. Volunteers
b. The Draft
c. None of the above
d. All of the above
What played a vital role in turning people against the war in Vietnam?
a. Television
b. Mounting Casualties
c. Government lies
d. All of the above
American soldiers shot and killed nearly 500 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam and the U.S.
government tried to cover it up. This is known as
a. The Kent State Massacre
b. The Bowling Green Massacre
c. The My Lai Massacre
d. The My Tai Massacre
What President secretly bombed Cambodia during the Vietnam War?
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a. President Kennedy
b. President Johnson
c. President Truman
d. President Nixon
Did we prevent Communists from taking over South Vietnam?
a. Yes
b. No
President Nixon came up with this policy to reduce tensions during the Cold War
a. Containment
b. Laissez Faire
c. Détente
d. Tensions
This treaty reduced the amount of nuclear warheads and missiles Russia and the United States
built
a. Versailles
b. Paris
c. NATO Pact
d. SALT Agreement
In 1979, Soviet troops invaded this country
a. China
b. Korea
c. Vietnam
d. Afghanistan
What Soviet leader began encouraging their citizens to begin speaking out against government
policies?
a. Vladimir Lenin
b. Joseph Stalin
c. Nikita Khrushchev
d. Mikhail Gorbachev
After a few summit meetings, Reagan and Gorbachev signed the
a. Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty
b. Salt Agreement
c. Salt II Agreement
d. Versailles Treaty
What happened in December of 1991?
a. Nothing
b. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
c. The Soviet Union fell
d. The Soviet Union invaded China
Who became the new President of Russia in 1992?
a. Vladimir Putin
b. Anton Yelchin
c. Boris Yeltsin
d. Dmitry Medvedev
50. What economy did Russia set up after turning to democracy?
a. Direct
b. Free Market
c. Socialist
d. Limited
Short answer: What reasons did Russia have to not give up their zone in Germany?
Short Answer: Even though the United States failed in getting rid of the communists in North Korea, why
was the Korean War considered somewhat successful?
Short Answer: How did Mutually Assured Destruction play a role in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Short Answer: How did the containment policy play a role in U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
Short Answer: Why was fighting in Vietnam different than in other wars?
Short Answer: Name something significant that happened in 1989