Question 1

How is the outcome of the Cuban missile crisis best described?

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A) A victory for the United States 
B) A victory for the Soviet Union 
C) Compromise that avoided nuclear war

Question 2

How had the events of the late 1970s threatened the "détente"? What new policies and conflicts increased tensions the most?

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Question 3

How did the Korean War and the first Vietnam War lead to a rupture between the United States and China? What were the implications of this rupture?

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Question 4

What was "containment"?

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Question 5

Which eastern European country resisted Communist takeover the longest?

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A) Poland 
B) Czechoslovakia 
C) Bulgaria

Question 6

Why did the United States and the Soviet Union initially support the Nationalists?

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Question 7

In the Chinese Civil War, the United States followed which policy?

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A) It supported Mao Zedong because it was apparent that the Communists would win. 
B) It strongly supported Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists, even promising to use atomic weapons if necessary. 
C) It gave limited military aid to the nationalists, but it refused to be drawn into the conflict.

Question 8

During World War II, in China, which of the following events occurred?

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A) Chiang withheld his troops from the war against Japan and Mao increased the size of the People's Liberation Army. 
B) Mao Zedong reduced the size of the People's Liberation Army, devoting himself to land reform and land redistribution. 
C) Chiang and Mao engaged in a bloody civil war with each other.

Question 9

In which year did the United States begin to commit substantial numbers of ground troops to the Vietnam conflict?

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A) 1954 
B) 1964 
C) 1967

Question 10

Which eastern European Communist leader was most successful in resisting control by the Soviet Union?

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A) Joseph Stalin 
B) Josip Broz Tito 
C) Walter Ulbricht

Question 11

Which 1975 agreement provided for the recognition of the Soviet sphere of influence in eastern Europe and the protection of the human rights of their citizens?

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A) SALT II 
B) The Helsinki Accords 
C) The Equivalence Accord

Question 12

Why did the People's Republic of China enter the Korean War?

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A) Out of fear that hostile American military forces would be stationed on the Chinese frontier 
B) In order to distract the Chinese public from its disastrous economic condition 
C) Because the United Nations urged that China intervene in order to preserve peace

Question 13

How and why was West Germany formed?

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Question 14

The Truman doctrine in the first instance was to provide aid to which countries?

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A) Yugoslavia and Austria 
B) Greece and Turkey 
C) Greece and Italy

Question 15

What result did the Paris peace treaty of 1973 have?

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A) It ended the war in Vietnam by dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel. 
B) It stated that American troops would be withdrawn from Vietnam and that both sides would attempt to achieve a political solution. 
C) It stated that American troops would remain in Vietnam in order to keep the peace.

Question 16

What was the Truman Doctrine?

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Question 17

What consequences did Gorbachev's reforms have for the Soviet Union? Did they achieve their intended goals? Why or why not?

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Question 18

One of the earliest disputes in the developing cold war was which of the following?

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A) The overthrow of the government of Yugoslavia 
B) Whether to divide Germany into zones of occupation 
C) The political makeup of the postwar Polish government

Question 19

Why did Yugoslavia escape Soviet control?

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Question 20

Which American president reversed the U.S. policy toward Communist China and made a diplomatic visit to China?

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A) John F. Kennedy 
B) Lyndon B. Johnson 
C) Richard Nixon

Exam 7: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War