Download Honors World Studies I Cold War Assessment Directions: Mark the

Honors World Studies I
Cold War Assessment
Directions: Mark the BEST answer for each question below on your Scantron. (1 point each)
1. Which of the following circumstances contributed to the breakdown of the alliance between the United States
and the Soviet Union and led into the Cold War?
a. Stalin’s nonaggression pact with Hitler
b. Stalin’s unfulfilled promise of free elections
c. Stalin’s promise to aid in the war against Japan
d. United States inclusion in the Security Council
2. _________ was established in June 1945 and was an international organization intended to protect its members
against acts of aggression.
a. League of Nations
b. United Nations
c. Warsaw Pact
d. NATO
3. What was NOT decided on at the Yalta Conference?
a. Stalin could enforce communism in occupied Eastern European countries
b. Germany and Berlin would be divided into 4 different occupation zones
c. Germany would pay the Soviet Union for loss of life and property
d. Stalin agreed to join the war against Japan
4. In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region described as being “behind the iron curtain” include?
a. Soviet Union only
b. Soviet Union and its satellite nations
c. Democratic nations of Western Europe
d. German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
5. The Iron Curtain was
a. A physical barrier between East and West European countries
b. A wall that divided East and West Berlin
c. A term coined by Winston Churchill to symbolize the divided between East and West European
countries
d. Joseph Stalin’s methods of spreading communism throughout Eastern Europe
6. What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
a. To raise funds for Communist activities in Europe
b. To create a Communist party in the United States
c. To judge political parties that favored communism
d. To support countries that rejected communism
7. Which European countries could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
a. Any European country that needed it
b. Any European country that shared a border with iron curtain countries
c. Any European country that politically opposed the Soviet Union
d. Any European country that modeled its government after US democracy
8. Which of the following worked together to produce similar goals?
a. Truman Doctrine and Containment
b. NATO and Warsaw Pact
c. Marshall Plan and the Iron Curtain
d. Détente and Brinkmanship
9. Which of the following is NOT permanent member of the UN Security Council?
a. USSR
b. USA
c. Germany
d. Britain
10. Some American were against the Marshall Plan because they felt the United States was
a. Supporting the spread of communism rather than trying to contain it
b. Getting too involved in European affairs
c. Wasting valuable resources needed at home
d. Trying to ignite another worldwide war
11. Ivy Mike, Castle Bravo and Tsar Bomb were all ____________ that used fusion.
a. Bombs in America’s arsenal
b. Thermonuclear bombs
c. Conventional weapons
d. Neutrino bombs
12. What was the name of the alliance established by European Communist nations in response to NATO?
a. Iron Curtain
b. Warsaw Pact
c. Second World
d. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
13. The 38th parallel was the divide between…
a. USSR and USA
b. North and South Korea
c. North and South Vietnam
d. China and Russia
14. _______ was built in 1961 and symbolized the divides in the Cold War.
a. Iron Curtain
b. Czar Bomba
c. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
d. Berlin Wall
15. What event led to increased US spending on education and technology?
a. Cuban Missile Crisis
b. Establishment of the Warsaw Pact
c. Chinese-Soviet Treaty of Friendship
d. Soviet launching of a space satellite
16. The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow
a. Fidel Castro
b. Flugencio Batista
c. Anastasio Somozoa
d. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
17. How did the Bay of Pigs failure lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a. Khrushchev believed the United States was too weak to oppose Soviet expansion into Cuba
b. Kennedy announced a blockade of Cuba following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion
c. Castro protested his country’s being used as a tool for the Cold War and asked Khrushchev to intervene
d. The Bay of Pigs troops were used to build missile bases
18. Why did the United States care to intervene in Cuba’s affairs?
a. They wanted to stop the spread of communism
b. They had business interests in Cuba
c. Cuba was only 90 miles away from the coast of the United States
d. All of the above
19. The Cuban Missile Crisis pitted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev against President
a. Harry Truman
b. Richard Nixon
c. John F. Kennedy
d. Lyndon Johnson
20. Vietnamese “Freedom Fighter” and devout communist; also responsible for thousands of executions and an
oppressive North Vietnamese regime
a. Pol Pot
b. Ho Chi Minh
c. Mao Zedong
d. Ngo Dinh Diem
21. Leader of communist China
a. Pol Pot
b. Ho Chi Minh
c. Mao Zedong
d. Ngo Dinh Diem
22. Responsible for Cambodia genocide
a. Pol Pot
b. Ho Chi Minh
c. Mao Zedong
d. Ngo Dinh Diem
23. The United States responded to the Cuban Missile Crisis by
a. Launching the Bay of Pigs Invasion
b. Sending an airstrike to destroy the missiles
c. Blockading Cuba
d. Doing nothing
24. The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when
a. The Soviet Union removed its missiles from Cuba
b. The United States agreed to never invade Cuba
c. The United States agreed to remove its missiles from Turkey
d. All of the above
25. Which of the following was NOT a tactic used by superpowers during the Cold War to influence Third World
nations?
a. Sponsored revolutions and counterrevolutions
b. Engaged in covert operations
c. Provided military aid and built schools
d. Threatened them with nuclear attack
26. During the Cold War, most Third World countries could have been accurately described as being
a. Developing nations
b. Established democracies
c. Located in Eastern Europe
d. Aligned with the United States
27. What was the Prague Spring?
a. Hungarian protesters attempted to overthrow the Soviet-controlled government
b. China spread its own form of communism in Asia and Africa
c. Czech’s communist leader lessened censorship in Czechoslovakia
d. Peace talks between the United States and Soviet Union
28. What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
a. Limited the number of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles each country could have
b. A policy of removing the memory of Stalin from the Soviet Union
c. The Soviet Union claimed it had the right to intervene in a satellite country if it attempted to reject
communism
d. Soviet foreign aid to Second World countries
29. What is an example of the United States shifting from a policy of brinkmanship to détente?
a. The Space Race
b. Nixon and Brezhnev signed the SALT I Treaty
c. Vietnam War
d. Reagan’s increase in defense spending
30. The goal of the Soviet policy known as destalinization was to
a. Purge the country of Stalin’s memory
b. Try to change the world’s impression of Stalin
c. Deny that Stalin had done what he was believed to have done
d. Released satellite nations from political controls imposed by Stalin
31. The policy of détente was mainly intended to
a. Reduce Cold War tensions
b. Restrict the spread of communism
c. Call world attention to the abuses of human rights
d. Solidify US relations with its economic allies
32. The reforms that led to democratization of the Soviet Union were begun by
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Victor Grishin
c. Leonid Brezhnev
d. Mikhail Gorbachev
33. How did perestroika bring reforms to the Soviet Union?
a. It reduce criminal activity
b. It helped to revive the Soviet economy
c. It allowed a free exchange of ideas
d. It opened up the Soviet political system
34. Which did NOT contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
a. Cuban Missile Crisis
b. Gorbachev’s Reforms
c. The August Coup of 1991
d. Estonia and Latvia leading the way in declaring independence from the Soviet Union
35. Some European nations were hesitant to support the reunification of Germany because of fears that it would
a. Support communism
b. Attempt to dominate Europe
c. Require significant foreign aid
d. Be politically unstable
36. Who became the Russian Republic’s first elected president?
a. Vaclav Havel
b. Egon Krenz
c. Mikhail Gorbachev
d. Boris Yeltsin
37. What is NOT true about Russia today?
a. Vladimir Putin is the president
b. Russia has seen an increase in jobs and life expectancy
c. Russia has demilitarized all of its nuclear weapons
d. All of the above are true
38. The United States fought ________ troops directly in the Korean War.
a. Russian
b. Japanese
c. Chinese
d. South Korean
39. Who was president during much of détente?
a. Reagan
b. Kennedy
c. Nixon
d. Truman
40. In Capitalism, the economy is controlled by _________, while in Communism it is controlled by ________.
a. Markets; the state
b. The state; markets
c. The president; the politburo
d. Congress; economy committee
41. Which is the best example of Cold War hysteria in the United States?
a. Truman’s plan to give economic aid to Europe
b. The popularity of personal fallout shelters and the “Duck and Cover” video
c. The Bay of Pigs fiasco
d. Czechoslovakia becoming unaligned
Matching: Match the quote with who said it
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45.
“Political power comes from the barrel of a gun”
“An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent”
“We will bury you!”
“As a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein
Berliner’”
46. (About Cuba), “Fry it!”
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Curtis LeMay (a military leader in
Kennedy’s ExComm)
c. Mao Zedong
d. Nikitia Kruschev
e. Winston Churchill
47. Which of the following presidents was NOT in charge during the Cold War?
a. Roosevelt
b. Johnson
c. Nixon
d. Reagan
e. Eisenhower
48. Which of the following Soviet leaders was NOT in charge during the Cold War?
a. Stalin
b. Kruschev
c. Brezhnev
d. Lenin
e. Gorbachev