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Cold War Test

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  • Q1
    What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
    to occupy Germany and divide it into 4 zones
    to end World War II
    to give $13 billion to countries in Western Europe to rebuild after WWII so that these countries would not be tempted by communism
    to prevent the spread of communism by sending money and weapons to defeat communist rebels in Greece and Turkey
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  • Q2
    What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
    to give $13 billion to countries in Western Europe to rebuild after WWII so that these countries would not be tempted by communism
    to prevent the spread of communism by sending money and weapons to defeat communist rebels in Greece and Turkey
    to occupy Germany and divide it into 4 zones
    to end World War II
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  • Q3
    What type of government does the United States have?
    capitalism
    communist
    democracy
    totalitarian
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  • Q4
    Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Ho Chi Minh
    Fidel Castro
    Nikita Kruschev
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  • Q5
    Why was the Berlin Wall built?
    to keep West German people from fleeing to West Berlin
    to keep East German people from fleeing to West Berlin
    to keep East German people from fleeing to East Berlin
    to keep West German people from fleeing to East Berlin
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  • Q6
    What type of government did the Soviet Union have?
    capitalism
    democracy
    totalitarian
    communist
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  • Q7
    What type of government did West Germany have?
    democracy
    communist
    totalitarian
    capitalism
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  • Q8
    Who was the leader of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
    Fidel Castro
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Nikita Kruschev
    John F. Kennedy
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  • Q9
    a policy that allowed people to disagree with the government and participate more in the government
    glasnost
    perestroika
    domino theory
    demilitarized zone
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  • Q10
    an extremely powerful country that is capable of influencing others is called a ___
    satellite nation
    communist country
    superpower
    representative democracy
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  • Q11
    How did the Vietnam War end?
    South Vietnam won and none of Vietnam is communist
    North Vietnam won and all of Vietnam became communist
    it was a tie and they remain divided
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  • Q12
    a policy to stop the spread of communism
    capitalism
    satellite nation
    superpower
    containment
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  • Q13
    What did the iron curtain separate?
    East Germany from West Germany
    the United States from the Soviet Union
    democratic West Berlin from communist East Germany
    democratic western Europe from communist eastern Europe
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  • Q14
    the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations in eastern Europe was called ___
    NATO
    Berlin Airlift
    Yalta Conference
    Warsaw Pact
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  • Q15
    leader of the Soviet Union who was responsible for glasnost and perestroika
    Fidel Castro
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Josef Stalin
    Nikita Kruschev
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  • Q16
    How did the Korean War end?
    South Korea won and none of Korea is communist
    North Korea won and all of Korea became communist
    it was a tie and North and South Korea remain divided
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  • Q17
    What type of economic system does the United States have?
    democracy
    communism
    totalitarian
    capitalism
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  • Q18
    What type of economic system did the Soviet Union have?
    communism
    capitalism
    democracy
    totalitarian
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  • Q19
    What was the goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
    make their own country communist
    spread communism
    contain communism
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  • Q20
    Who won the Cold War?
    Soviet Union
    Korea
    the United States
    Vietnam
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