Question 1

tactic used to overcome a Soviet blockade

Accepted Answer

Berlin Airlift

Answer

Cuban missile crisis

Answer

Geneva Peace Accords

Answer

Great Leap Forward

Question 2

leader of the Communist Party in Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Answer

Chiang Kai-shek

Answer

Mao Zedong

Answer

Kim Jong Un

Question 3

another name for the Marshall Plan

Accepted Answer

European Recovery Program

Answer

COMECON

Answer

Great Leap Forward

Answer

Berlin Airlift

Question 4

Soviet-based economic assistance program for Eastern European states

Accepted Answer

COMECON

Answer

Berlin Airlift

Answer

Great Leap Forward

Answer

Geneva Peace Accords

Question 5

strategy that built up the United States’s and the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenals

Accepted Answer

arms race

Answer

COMECON

Answer

Cuban missile crisi

Answer

European Recovery Program

Question 6

Chinese Communist leader

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Answer

Chiang Kai-shek

Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Answer

Xi Xinping

Question 7

Chinese Communists’ economic program

Accepted Answer

Great Leap Forward

Answer

European Recovery Program

Answer

COMECON

Answer

Geneva Peace Accords

Question 8

confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that came close to starting a nuclear war

Accepted Answer

Cuban missile crisis

Answer

Berlin Airlift

Answer

Geneva Peace Accords

Answer

Great Leap Forward

Question 9

mutual agreement among Western, Eastern, and Asian powers to divide Vietnam into two territories

Accepted Answer

Geneva Peace Accords

Answer

Berlin Airlift

Answer

European Recovery Program

Answer

Great Leap Forward

Question 10

Chinese nationalist leader

Accepted Answer

Chiang Kai-shek

Answer

Mi So Lo

Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 11

The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of eastern
Europe should

Accepted Answer

hold free elections to determine their futures.

Answer

become mandates of the Allies.

Answer

restore their prewar monarchies.

Answer

join the Soviet Union.

Question 12

U.S. fears about the spread of communism were increased when ___________________
became a Communist nation in 1949.

Accepted Answer

China

Answer

Yugoslavia

Answer

West Germany

Answer

South Korea

Question 13

The Marshall Plan was designed to

Accepted Answer

restore the economic stability of European nations after World War II.

Answer

develop a comprehensive military strategy for the defense of Canada.

Answer

make Western European nations stronger than nations under Soviet control.

Answer

prevent Soviet involvement in Angola.

Question 14

At the end of World War II, which country refused to end its colonial rule in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

France

Answer

Britain

Answer

Japan

Answer

China

Question 15

West Berlin was

Accepted Answer

a city entirely surrounded by East German territory.

Answer

divided into two sectors at the border of East and West Germany.

Answer

a city entirely surrounded by West German territory

Answer

divided into French, British, American, and Soviet sectors.

Question 16

The Truman Doctrine stated that the United States would provide _________________ to
nations threatened by Communist expansion.

Accepted Answer

money

Answer

communications technology

Answer

jeeps

Answer

political support in the United Nations

Question 17

The Warsaw Pact sought to

Accepted Answer

create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European nations.

Answer

create a plan for the reduction of nuclear weapons in Europe.

Answer

provide economic assistance to Polish Jews after World War II.

Answer

prevent Soviet expansion into Poland and Denmark.

Question 18

Which country sent soldiers into the Korean peninsula in order to drive back the
UN forces?

Accepted Answer

China

Answer

France

Answer

Vietnam

Answer

Soviet Union

Question 19

What was one basic change made by the Chinese government during Communist Party rule in the 1950s and 1960s?

Accepted Answer

Women were given more rights.

Answer

All children were schooled at home.

Answer

Women lost rights they previously enjoyed.

Answer

All adults were required to join the Communist Party.

Question 20

Which event led to improved relations between the United States and China?

Accepted Answer

President Richard Nixon’s state visit to China

Answer

the election of Deng Xiaoping

Answer

the end of the war in Vietnam

Answer

the end of Communist Party rule in China

Question 21

What is Churchill referring to when he talks about the “shadow [that] has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory”?

Accepted Answer

the way the Soviet Union has exerted its control over the countries of Eastern Europe

Answer

The fact that the United States is too powerful and must be kept in check

Question 22

How did the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba affect the U.S./Soviet relationship?

Accepted Answer

It intensified the distrust between the U.S. and the Soviets because Fidel Castro reached out to them.

Answer

The Bay of Pigs Invasion made the relationship better

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