Deck 21: Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority

Question 1

The U.S.containment policy was directed at what nation?

A) Germany
B) Japan
C) the Soviet Union
D) Cuba

Answer 1

the Soviet Union

Question 2

The Soviet leader from 1953 to 1964 was ________.

A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Joseph Stalin

Answer 2

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 3

Which of these Soviet leaders committed to a policy of crushing uprisings in satellite nations?

A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) V.I. Lenin
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 3

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 4

McCarthyism was a second ________.

A) depression
B) 1968
C) Red Scare
D) Wall Street crash

Question 5

Which of these conflicts ran from 1950 to 1953?

A) the Korean War
B) the Cuban Missile Crisis
C) the Vietnam War
D) World War II

Question 6

Ho Chi Minh was a ________ leader in the 1950s and 1960s.

A) Korean
B) Chinese
C) Indonesian
D) Vietnamese

Question 7

The American president at the end of World War II was ________.

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Franklin Roosevelt
C) Dwight Eisenhower
D) Harry Truman

Question 8

Which of these nations seized the Suez Canal in 1956?

A) Saudi Arabia
B) Israel
C) Egypt
D) Jordan

Question 9

The term "nonaligned" referred to decisions concerning alliances with ________.

A) the United Nations
B) NATO
C) European nations
D) the Soviet Union or the United States

Question 10

Salvador Allende was president of ________.

A) Argentina
B) Chile
C) Costa Rica
D) Mexico

Question 11

The Marshall Plan gave money to help ________ rebuild.

A) Britain
B) the Soviet Union
C) Western Europe
D) Japan

Question 12

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created as a(n)________ alliance.

A) economic
B) defensive
C) judicial
D) scientific

Question 13

The Sandinistas were revolutionaries in ________.

A) Nicaragua
B) Guatemala
C) Mexico
D) Argentina

Question 14

Fidel Castro was the ________ premier from 1961 to 2011.

A) Cuban
B) Brazilian
C) Mexican
D) Guatemalan

Question 15

Which of these men was the last Soviet premier?

A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Viktor Chernomyrdin
D) Vladimir Putin

Question 16

Which of these countries was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979?

A) Poland
B) Ukraine
C) Armenia
D) Afghanistan

Question 17

Achmed Sukarno led ________ to independence in 1949.

A) Vietnam
B) Burma
C) Indonesia
D) Cambodia

Question 18

Which of these countries experienced the Prague Spring in 1968?

A) Poland
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Slovenia
D) Hungary

Question 19

France fought a protracted war to prevent ________ from gaining its independence.

A) Morocco
B) Algeria
C) Syria
D) Libya

Question 20

Patrice Lumumba was elected prime minister of ________ in 1960.

A) the Congo
B) Sudan
C) Nigeria
D) Rwanda

Question 21

According to Winston Churchill,the iron curtain was created by ________.

A) the Cold War
B) the Soviet Union
C) communism
D) the Axis powers

Question 22

Russia's first president was ________.

A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Viktor Chernomyrdin
C) Boris Yeltsin
D) Sergey Kiriyenko

Question 23

Which of these explains U.S.intervention in Guatemala in the 1950s?

A) a threat to an American company in Guatemala
B) a direct threat to the United States
C) Soviet intervention in Guatemala
D) political chaos

Question 24

Looking at the table "Defense Expenditure," which of these years saw the United States begin outspending the Soviet Union?

A) 1938
B) 1970
C) 1987
D) 1997

Question 25

The Warsaw Pact was created to ________.

A) push the boundaries of the Soviet Union
B) bring communist countries together in one economic bloc
C) counter the creation of NATO
D) promote communism

Question 26

Which of these two generally went along with nonalignment?

A) being a third-world nation
B) membership in NATO
C) membership in the UN
D) advanced industrialization

Question 27

The Comintern was created to ________.

A) spread communism
B) counter NATO
C) defend the Soviet bloc
D) fix the Soviet economy

Question 28

The premiership of Nikita Khrushchev marked a(n)________ relative to the policies under Joseph Stalin.

A) radical shift
B) reversal
C) change in direction
D) acceleration

Question 29

In the period from 1950 to 1990,proxy wars often masked the conflict between ________.

A) third-world and nonaligned nations
B) the Soviet Union and the United States
C) core and periphery nations
D) industrialized and neocolonialist nations

Question 30

The green revolution took place in what field?

A) ecology
B) manufacturing
C) biology
D) agriculture

Question 31

In 1955,NATO members included the United States and ________.

A) Western Europe
B) most of Europe
C) most of Western Europe
D) Western and Central Europe

Question 32

The World Wildlife Fund is an example of a(n)________.

A) United Nations organization
B) nongovernmental organization
C) multinational corporation
D) transnational corporation

Question 33

Which of these is a sunrise industries?

A) textiles
B) steel
C) mining
D) computers

Question 34

Looking at the map "The decolonization of Africa," which of these was a major decade for African decolonization?

A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s

Question 35

Which of these was probably a secondary motive for the Marshall Plan?

A) the domino effect
B) containment
C) improving trade relations
D) helping Europe rebuild

Question 36

Ultimately,the announced Brezhnev Doctrine ________.

A) was ineffective
B) was a threat
C) served as a pretext
D) would be carried out

Question 37

The process of gaining independence in Algeria was unusual because it ________.

A) came relatively rapidly
B) led to conflict
C) left the country divided
D) involved a long and bloody war

Question 38

Which of these was created in 1957?

A) the eurozone
B) the European Economic Community
C) the European Coal and Steel Community
D) the European Union

Question 39

Which of these were the focus of most of the activity associated with 1968?

A) students
B) military officers
C) communists
D) nationalists

Question 40

The Suez Canal crisis is an example of a nation ________.

A) being torn apart by a proxy war
B) using the Cold War to its own advantage
C) accepting communism to gain Soviet assistance
D) gaining independence by forming a regional alliance

Question 41

The activities of the UN are ________.

A) mainly in the area of peace-keeping
B) confined to third-world nations
C) mostly humanitarian
D) extremely diverse

Question 42

Since its inception,the scope of the World Bank has ________.

A) remained the same
B) diminished
C) shifted towards Asia
D) greatly increased

Question 43

Nongovernmental organizations can be characterized as ________.

A) diverse
B) acting under UN authority
C) unregulated
D) commercial

Question 44

How did the Cold War impact relations among American nations?

Question 45

What are the strengths and weakness of the United Nation in pursuing its charter?

Question 46

The end of the Soviet Union can be characterized as ________.

A) painfully slow
B) marked by bloody conflicts
C) swift and peaceful
D) incomplete

Question 47

What were the major factors that led to the Cold War?

Question 48

Which of these was intentionally terminated by Mikhail Gorbachev?

A) the Soviet Union
B) the Warsaw Pact
C) glasnost
D) the Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 49

Most African nations gained their independence ________.

A) through long wars
B) through UN intervention
C) peacefully
D) via proxy wars

Question 50

The "Asian tigers" are tigers in a(n)________ sense.

A) military
B) progressive political
C) territorial
D) economic

Question 51

Why did the Soviet Union fall apart? What was the fate of communism in this process?

Question 52

Nongovernmental organizations are often criticized because they ________.

A) tend to make their profits in third-world countries
B) are not overseen by any impartial body
C) have been banned by the UN
D) operate on a global scale

Question 53

Compare two countries' decolonization experiences.How do you account for these differences?

Question 54

Unlike Cuba and Vietnam,India was ________ in the twentieth century.

A) nonaligned
B) a Soviet ally
C) a third-world nation
D) a member of NATO

Question 55

NATO differs from the United Nations in being ________.

A) an outgrowth of World War II
B) more restricted in both its activities and its geographic scope
C) dominated by former Soviet-bloc nations
D) larger