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Cold War Test
World History Cold War Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following issues was NOT discussed at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. | containment |
| The Truman Doctrine arose when the Soviets attempted to gain control of Greece and | Turkey |
| What policy was primarily responsible for America's aid to South Vietnam? | Domino theory |
| What was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to fall to communism? | Cuba |
| What country was split into two parts by the 38th Parallel? | Korea |
| What crisis ended with the President promising not to invade a communist country? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| What did the East Germans began building what structure to prevent people from leaving? | Berlin Wall |
| What were the PRO-Communist South Vietnamese called? | Viet Cong |
| What was developed by the US in 1952 that was stronger than the A- Bomb? | Hydrogen Bomb |
| What was the name given to the failed Cuban-US operation in 1961? | Bay of Pigs |
| The Free World used an ___of supplies to sustain West Berlin during the Soviet blockade of 1949 | airlift |
| Belief that if a non-Communist nation in Asia fell to communism, the other nations would fall | Domino Theory |
| The name given to the hunt for Communist in the US was called | Red Scare |
| What was the arms race? | making and accumulating new improved weapons |
| ____ program to provide economic aid to war torn areas | Marshall Plan |
| The Military alliance of democratic countries after WWII was called | NATO |
| Tension in the Cold War was between ___________ countries. | democratic and communist |
| To oppose the NATO alliance, communist countries formed the: | Warsaw Pact |
| During the Cold War, major incidents took place in all of the following places, except: | Poland |
| One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was to: | keep skilled East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin |
| The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially formed to: | defend Western Europe from Soviet aggression and communism |
| The Warsaw Pact was initially formed to do all of the following except: | promote religious freedom |
| The Marshall Plan was designed to stop the spread of communism by providing: | funds for economic recovery in war-torn European nations |
| One way in which the Korean War and the Vietnam War are similar is that both: | developed from Cold War tensions |
| The primary purpose of the United Nations is to: | resolve conflicts between nations peacefully |
| One reason the Chinese Communists were able to gain control was due to the support of the: | peasants |
| ___leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin; leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Who ruled Cuba before the Cuban Revolution? | Fulgencio Batista |
| Who led the revolution to overthrow Batista? | Fidel Castro |
| What did Castro promise when he overthrew Batista? | equality and self-rule |
| Where did the wealthy and educated Cuban flee to as refugees? | U.S.A. |
| What was the name of the operation at the Bay of Pigs in which the Freedom Fighters would invade Cuba? | Operation Mongoose |
| Why was the Bay of Pigs (1961) a failure? | Kennedy did not send naval or air support for the Freedom Fighters and Castro knew about the invasion; all Freedom Fighters were captured; Cuba turned to USSR for help |
| Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) | Cuba asked USSR to help make comm. party; allowed USSR to place missiles for political & social help; USSR put long & short range nuclear missiles; US spot them when Spy plane flew over Cuba; sent U.S. in flurry as they figured how to avoid nuclear war |
| Outcome of Cuban Missile Crisis | US & USSR demanded missile removal; US blockaded & refused access to ships; Cuba tried to run blockade & threaten ships; US saw bluff; USSR & JFK met & came to agreement: -US would not invade Cuba or stop Castro’s Comm. Govt -USSR & US removed missiles |
| Yalta Conference (1945) | what countries wanted post WWII; Churchill: rebuild West Europe; Roosevelt: promote democracy & avoid more conflict; Stalin: control East Europe as buffer zone btwn USSR & Germany. -Free elections, -Peace & rebuilding. -Self determination of nations. |
| What was not discusses at the Yalta Conference | containment was not discussed |
| Berlin Airlift | Berlin cut-off from Europe by the Soviets; Western allies fly supplies for 11 months to sustain West Berlin; Uncle Wiggly Wings aka Candy Bomber kept morale up by dropping treats to kids; first stand-off btwn Communist and Democracies in Europe. |
| Why did the U.S. go to war in Korea? | The US went to war to stop communism from spreading into South Korea |
| How did the Korean War end? | After several back and forth advances by both sides, the war ended with a stalemate at the 38th Parallel and Korea remains divided today; the war never officially ended |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | to keep the East Germans from fleeing to the west. |
| Why was the Vietnam War so difficult? | the US was fighting rebels using guerilla tactics in a jungle |
| What was the Tet Offensive? | A surprise attack on a Vietnamese holiday across many cities that shocked the US |
| How did the US finally end the war? | The US and Vietcong came to an agreement in Paris to cease hostilities at the pre-war lines of Vietnam |
| Cold War | Post-WWII state of apprehension, hostility and competition between the U.S. and USSR. |
| Containment | The use of military, economic, diplomatic and psychological means to curtail the further advance of communism. |
| arms race | A buildup of weapons between two or more nations in order to maintain a position of strength and to prevent the other side from gaining a military edge. |
| Vietnamization | The policy of gradually turning the burden of fighting the Vietnam War over to the South Vietnamese. |
| Perestroika | Soviet policy during the 1980s of a wide range of social, political and social reforms. |
| Glasnost | “Openness,” Soviet policy of encouraging open discussions of the problems facing the USSR. |
| iron curtain | The dividing line between Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. |
| 38th Parallel | The border between North and South Korea. |
| Fidel Castro | He was the Communist dictator that took over control of Cuba in 1959 and became an ally of the Soviet Union. |
| Marshall Plan | European Recovery Act; provided massive economic assistance for post-WWII Europe; the western nations accepted the funds, but the eastern ones did not. |
| Truman Doctrine | The principle, enunciated by Harry S. Truman, of assisting countries in a struggle against communism. |
| Ho Chi Minh | He was a communist in Vietnam who declared them independent of France. He caused a conflict between France and Vietnam. |
| Nikita Krushchev | He was the Soviet leader that took control after Stalin that seeked “peaceful coexistence” with the U.S. He was in charge during the launching of the first man made satellite into space and the U-2 Incident. |
| Warsaw Pact | Soviet regional military alliance that included Soviet states in Eastern Europe; organized to counter NATO. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a regional military alliance to defend against Soviet expansion. |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; limited the number of nuclear weapons that the U.S. and USSR could possess. |
| Viet Cong | Communist guerrillas who launched subversive activity in South Vietnam. |
| U-2 Incident | It was the shooting down of an American U-2 reconnaissance (spy) plane over the Soviet Union in 1960. |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Congressional authorization for American President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression”. |
| domino theory | The Cold War theory that once Vietnam fell to communism, then the other countries of Asia would fall like dominos toppling against one another. |
| Who received the most help from the Marshall Plan? | Great Britain |
| Who received the least amount of help from the Marshall Plan? | Turkey; this is probably because they had already received money from the Truman Doctrine |
| What was the only Western European country that did not receive help from the Marshall Plan? | Spain, because they were neutral in the war against communism during the Cold War. |
| The European countries that did not receive any aid from the Marshall Plan: | USSR, Spain, Poland, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Which country was neutral in WWII and still received aid? | Ireland |
| Most of the countries that received aid joined which post WWII alliance? | NATO |
| Most of the countries that did NOT receive aid joined which post WWII alliance? | Warsaw Pact. |
| According to Gandhi, what is the only proper way to relate to people? | Love |
| Gandhi’s mother was what religion? | Jainist |
| Gandhi spent time in all of the following countries, except: | America |
| What political organization did Gandhi belong to? | Indian National Congress |
| Gandhi supported which of the following? | Independence for India |
| Which type of protest would Gandhi not approve of? | Violent Uprising |
| Why did Gandhi protest against the caste system? | It divided society |
| Gandhi was assassinated because he... | Was mistakenly thought to be pro-Muslim |
| What was the Marshall Plan? | It was a European Aid Program that was used to stop hunger, poverty and chaos in Europe by providing support to nations in need of financial support. |
| Why did the U.S. do the Marshall Plan? | They wanted to prevent another world wide depression like the one that had occurred after World War I |
| Jacob Malik | Soviet delegate to the UN; proposed the ceasefire |
| Types of Warfare used in Vietnam | traps; guerrilla; trenches and tunnels; agent orange |
| Who controlled Vietnam? | WWII - Japan; post-WWII - France |
| What was the longest war in U.S. history? | Vietnam War |
| First Indochina War (Anti-French Resistance War) | French were defeated in 1954 at battle of Dien Bien Phu; France left Southeast Asia later that year |
| Ho Chi Minh | North Vietnam Revolutionary Leader; Prime Minister (1946-55); President (1955-69) of Democratic Republic of Vietnam) |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | President of South Vietnam; Catholic; unpopular with citizens; anti-commie; tried to be overthrown |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | supply lines in Laos and Cambodia used by North Vietnam |
| Hmong | migrant ethnic group in Southeast Asia that fought with the U.S. in hopes of getting land for their own country after victory; persecuted till this day |
Created by:
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