Chapter 9 Quiz 1 World History

What are the two historical events including dates, that could be used to mark the end of the Cold War?

The breakup of the Soviet Union, 1991 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989.

Sputnik I

The first artificial satellite

Repatriation

The return of prisoners of war to their own countries.

Eleven of the original fifteen republics of the Soviet Union formed the _________________ in 1991.

Commonwealth of Independent States.

On June 25, _______, North Korea invaded South Korea.

1950

Demilitarized zone

A designated area where military forces, activity, and installations have been removed.

Khrushchev

A more cautious Soviet leader

The term détente refers to_______.

A period of better relations between the superpowers during the 1970's.

Containment

A policy first adopted by President Truman to stop the spread of Communism.

Iron curtain

A social, economic, and military barrier between the Soviet bloc countries and Western Europe after WWII

Cold War

A state of military and political tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII

The Soviets invaded _________ in 1979 to support the installment of a ________ regime.

Afghanistan, Communist

Johnson

Asked Congress to support wider American involvement

Nixon

Began a policy of Vietnamization

In response to the Berlin blockade, the Western Allies began the _________, code-named "Operation Vittles," which, at its height, landed one plane in Berlin every three minutes.

Berlin airlift

The United States responded to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by __________ the 1980 __________ in Moscow.

Boycotting, Olympics

As the United States made overtures toward Mao Zedong's government in ______ in the early 1970's, it ceased to recognize the legitimacy of the government in _______.

China, Taiwan

Ngo Dinh Diem

Corrupt South Vietnamese leader

Alexander Dubcek and Vaclav Havel led the transitional government in __________.

Czechoslovakia

Vietminh

Defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu

The event that marked the symbolic end of Communism in Eastern Europe was the ________.

Destruction of the Berlin Wall

Albania was an unusually prosperous Communist nation that suffered no substantial population loss during the early 1990's.

False

East and West Germany began negotiations to reunite, but has not come to terms by the mid-1990's.

False

Hungary continues to look at the leaders of their 1956 revolt as criminals.

False

The General Assembly has oversight of territories under UN protection.

False

The U.S. Congress declared war on North Korea shortly after the invasion of South Korea began.

False

The UN has its own army to enforce its decisions.

False

What three nations attacked Egypt in 1956 in order to recover the Suez Canal?

Great Britain, France, Israel

The _______Resolution was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1964 and allowed the president to expand American involvement in Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin

Intercontinental ballistic missiles

Have the capability of traveling from one continent to another.

The Soviet Union Set up Communist governments in all of the following EXCEPT:

Italy. Communist governments were set up in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania, and East Germany.

Castro

Leader of the Cuban Revolution

The United States gave substantial aid to Europe after WWII under the ________.

Marshall Plan

The Two parties that fought in China's civil war were the:

Nationalists and Communists

Satellites

Nations that are politically and economically controlled by another country.

The ___________is an alliance that was originally formed for mutual defense against a Soviet attack.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Thermonuclear

Nuclear weapons based on fusion rather than those based on fission.

Kennedy

Ordered the blockade of Cuba

Berlin Wall

Separated West Berlin from Soviet-controlled East Berlin and East Germany

The first free trade union in a Communist country was _______ in Poland.

Solidarity

Viet Cong

South Vietnamese Communists

In 1949, the _____ successfully tested their first atomic bomb.

Soviets

The _____ was a large, well-coordinated attack by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese that coincided with the beginning of the Vietnamese New Year.

Tet offensive

The United States feared that Communist China would ally itself with _____.

The Soviet Union

Describe the U.S. policy of containment during the Cold War.

The U.S. policy of containment during the Cold War was a direct response to the Soviet Union trying to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe and several other countries. This policy was set up to prevent the spread of communism across the world.

Who were the primary antagonists during the Cold War?

The United States and the Soviet Union

Superpowers

The United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Both the Soviets and the Americans had the power to veto any resolution under consideration by the UN's Security Council.

True

Douglas MacArthur was fired as commander of the armed forces in Korea because he publicly opposed the decision of President Truman.

True

Relations between the Americans and the Soviets deteriorated in May of 1960 because of the U-2 incident in which an American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.

True

SALT II was signed in 1979, but it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.

True

The 1991 coup attempt failed because it lacked the support of the people and most of the army.

True

The Security Council attempts to keep peace in the world.

True

The U.S. naval blockade of Cuba was to prevent the delivery of any further missiles or military materials by the Soviet Union.

True

The United States expected that a period of post-WWII cooperation with the Soviets could be used to convince them to leave Eastern Europe.

True

The United States refused to send aid to South Vietnam as it was invaded by the North Vietnamese in 1975.

True

The United States was initially cautious in its response to Gorbachev.

True

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnamese nationalist

The ________ Pact was a military alliance between the former Soviet Union and its Satellite countries in Eastern Europe.

Warsaw

Who was the elected president of the Russian Republic who led the resistance to the coup attempt in 1991?

Yeltsin

Which country split into five nations after the fall of Communism?

Yugoslavia

Nasser

seized the Suez Canal