Cold war unit test

What year did the Cold War begin?

1945

What year did the Cold War end?

1991

What was the event in which American and British officials flew food and supplies into West Berlin for nearly 11 months after the Soviet Union attempted to block access to it?

Berlin Airlift

What event led to the creation of NATO?

Berlin Blockade and Airlift

Who was the former mayor of Moscow who was a leader in the movement to reform the Soviet Union?

Boris Yeltsin

Who was the leader of the Nationalist forces during the Chinese Civil War?

Chiang Kai-shek

The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from ___________ and the United States agreed to remove its missiles from ___________

Cuba, Turkey

What was the Chinese Communist program, begun in 1966, that called for young Red Guards to strictly enforce Communism and destroy traditional cultural symbols?

Cultural Revolution

What was the name of the Cold War theory that suggested that if a country fell to communism, then so would the neighboring countries?

Domino Theory

Who was the main leader of the Communist revolution in Cuba in 1959?

Fidel Castro

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s?

Gorbachev

What was the Chinese Communist program, begun in 1958, that called for the creation of even larger collective farms known as communes?

Great Leap Forward

During the Cold War, what was the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe?

Iron Curtain

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Khrushchev

Who was the leader of the Communist revolution in China in 1949?

Mao

What was the US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II?

Marshall Plan

What was the alliance of Western, democratic nations formed in 1949?

NATO

What was the country that was created by the Nationalists at the end of the Chinese Civil War?

Taiwan

Why were the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union allies during World War II?

They shared a common enemy: Nazi Germany

What was the goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion?

To remove Castro from power

What was the US policy of giving economic and military aid to democratic nations that were threatened by Communist takeovers?

Truman Doctrine

What was the international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world?

United Nations

What was the name of the meeting held in February 1945 between the three major Allied powers to decide the fate of post-WWII Europe?

Yalta Conference

What was the general US policy of stopping the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries resist Soviet advances?

containment

What was the Soviet policy of openness that allowed more freedom of speech?

glasnost

What was the Soviet policy of economic restructuring that allowed some small private ownership of businesses?

perestroika

What was the alliance of Eastern, Communist nations formed in 1955?

warsaw pact