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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe First showdown between the USA and USSR took place in 1948 during the:Cuban Missile CrisisThe Berlin AirliftThe Berlin WallThe Korean Conflisct
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWho was the leader of the Cuban Communists?Mao ZedongPhillipe AleganteFidel CastroNikita Krushchev
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWho was the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, who was also famously assassinated?Richard NixonJohn F KennedyFranz FerdinandLyndon B Johnson
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWho Led the Chinese Nationalists in an attempt to wipe out the Chinese communists?Chiang Kai-ShekMao ZedongCao CaoJoseph Stalin
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWho led the Chinese Communists against the Chinese Nationalists?Chiang Kai-ShekMao ZedongFidel CastroNgo Diem Dinh
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the Soviets have built around West Berlin to prevent defections and western culture from spreading?!?!The Berlin WallThe Brandenburg BlockadeThe Great barrier of 1961The Eastern Front
- 7. Multiple ChoiceTo hold back the spread of communism, the United States adopted which policy?Estrangement!Isolationism!Appeasement!Containment!
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following Asian nations were the FIRST to have a successful communist uprising in 1949?JapanChinaVietnamLaos
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe Purpose of the Marshall Plan was to:Destroy Western Europe.Rebuild Western Europe.Create the Warsaw Pact.Defend against the Soviets!
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a satellite state?A communist state meant to create a buffer zone for the USSRA communist state that fought against the USSRA colony in outer space circling the planetA capitalist state that was part of NATO
- 11. Multiple ChoiceAttempting to maintain containment, which war did the USA fight early 1950's to counter an invasion by a communist power?The Korean WarWWIIWWIThe Russo-Japanese war
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe pledge made by the USA that it would support democracies threatened by communism was called:The Truman DoctrineAppeasementThe Marshall planContainment
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe Vietnam war ended in a communist victory: TRUE OR FALSE?TrueFalse
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe Soviet Leader who created Perestroika and Glasnost was:Joseph StalinNikita KrushchevMikhail GorbachevMao Zedong
- 15. Multiple ChoiceRonald Reagan created ____________, to escalate the arms race and force the USSR into spending money on development.MADThe SDIThe American Defense LeagueNATO
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was NOT a communist nation during the cold war?ChinaVietnamFranceEast German
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe Soviet alliance made to counter NATO was:The USSREThe communist manifestoThe Prague unionThe Warsaw Pact
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe full name of the USSR is:The United Soviet Socialist RepublicsThe Socialist Republics of RussiaThe Soviet Super RepublicThe Union on Soviet Socialisms
- 19. Multiple ChoiceTowards the end of the cold war the soviet union was suffering from economic, cultural, and political hardships which led to it's collapse. True or FalseTrueFalse
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