CR World History-Unit 5 Review

Which of the following resulted from the Vietnam War? Select all that apply.

-Vietnam is united under a Communist government. -Support for the containment of Communism lessens. -Anti-government feelings spread in the United States. -Communism spreads to Laos and Cambodia.

Which of the following were effects of the arms race? Select all that apply.

-fear of nuclear attack -building of large numbers of fallout shelters -increased study of science and math -heightened world tensions

Which of the following were results of the Korean War? Select all that apply.

-loss of millions of lives -greater US concern about the spread of Communism -tension between North Korea and the United States

Which countries were made permanent members of the UN's Security Council in 1945? Select all that apply.

-the US -Soviet Union -France -Great Britain -China

Which of the following statements describe the Soviet Union in the years after World War II? Select all that apply.

-used a Communist economic system -placed restrictions on personal freedoms -was ruled by a dictator -created buffer states in eastern Europe

In what way did the political situation in Vietnam resemble that of Korea in the 1950s?

Both Vietnam and Korea were divided into a Communist North and a non-Communist South.

5-2 The Korean War began in 1950 when the

Communist North attacked the non-Communist South.

Which of the following phrases best describes East Germany after World War II?

Communist economic system

Which of the following best describes the two sides that faced each other during the Cold War?

Communists and non-Communists

In the 1800s, Vietnam was colonized by the European country of _________.

France

When the western allies created West Germany as a nation in 1948, how did the Soviet Union respond?

It established a blockade of West Berlin.

Read this passage about the partition of Korea. "The partition of Korea into two zones dominates the political and economic life of the peninsular. The division of Korea at the 38th parallel has turned into a hard and fast boundary which cuts off all intercourse between the northern and southern halves of the country, except for the exchange of mail and the transfer of surplus electric power from North to South Korea." -The Situation in Korea, 1947 Report The passage says that the partition of Korea

divided the country, both in its political and economic life.

The Berlin Wall became a symbol of the Cold War because it

literally divided the East and the West.

The United Nations was created in 1945 with the purpose of

maintaining world peace.

The map shows the United States and Cuba at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The map makes it clear that

missiles launched from Cuba could strike anywhere on the US mainland.

People who lived in eastern bloc countries after World War II could not

participate in government.

The two superpowers that opposed each other during the Cold War were the United States and

the Soviet Union

The Cold War was a period of history during which

the United States and the Soviet Union mistrusted each other.

Review: By the time the Korean War ended in 1953,

the division of the Korean peninsula remained unchanged.

The Vietcong were rebels in South Vietnam who wanted to

unify the South and North under a Communist government.

Tensions rose as the two opposing superpowers competed for

weapons

The line graph shows US defense spending from 1946 to 1968. Which of the following statements best explains this graph?

US defense spending declined after World War II but increased as the Cold War heated up.

5-1 Which of the following best describes NATO?

a military alliance of the United States and other non-Communist nations

Read the passage from a Soviet ambassador. The foreign policy of the United States . . . is characterized in the postwar period by a striving for world supremacy. This is the real meaning of the many statements by President Truman and other representatives of American ruling circles; that the United States has the right to lead the world. —Nikolai Novikov, Ambassador of the USSR, September 1946 Which of the following words best characterizes the ambassador's perspective of American foreign policy?

distrust

The map shows Korea after World War II. The map makes it clear that after World War II, Korea was a

divided country.

Which statement best describes the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II?

They were both members of the Allies.

The closest the world came to war during the Cold War was when the Soviet Union placed missiles on the Caribbean island of ____.

Cuba

The photo shows the Allied leaders meeting in Potsdam, Germany, in 1945. The Allied leaders were meeting to discuss which of the following?

Europe's future now that Germany had been defeated

Read the passage from a speech on Vietnam given by President Nixon in 1969. "For the future of peace, precipitate withdrawal would thus be a disaster of immense magnitude. —A nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allied and lets down its friends. —Our defeat and humiliation in South Vietnam without question would promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest. —This would spark violence wherever our commitments help maintain the peace—in the Middle East, in Berlin, eventually even in the Western Hemisphere . . . For these reasons, I rejected the recommendation that I should end the war by immediately withdrawing all of our forces." —President Richard Nixon Address to the nation Nov. 3, 1969 What foreign policy direction does the President say the United States should follow?

The US should not withdraw from Vietnam, because that would cause problems elsewhere.

Which Cold War event happened last?

The Vietnam war ends

What was the name of the theory that said that if one country in a region fell to Communism, others would surely follow?

domino theory

Defectors from East Germany were people who

fled their homes to move permanently to the West.

After World War II, the Soviet Union designated many of the countries of Eastern Europe as __________ states.

satellite

Intercontinental ballistic missiles made it possible for a country possessing them to

strike targets far away.