History & Geography Unit 9 Self Tests 1-2
Includes Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
ASEAN
Communists were never able to take full control of the country due to American-backed Muslim rebels.
Afghanistan
Gabon
Africa
Great Rift System
Africa
Morocco
Africa
What two nation set up their own Communist governments after WWII?
Albania and Yugoslavia.
The _____ run along the west coast of South America.
Andes Mountains
South American military government fought the British over the Falkland Islands in 1982
Argentina
Cambodia
Asia
Gobi Desert
Asia
Plateau of Tibet
Asia
Tigris-Euphrates Rivers
Asia
Tuerkmenistan
Asia
Austriala
Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Australia
U.S trainer Cuban exiles tried to invade Cuba at the
Bay of Pigs.
The Soviets cut off access to Berlin by land during the _____ so the city was supplied by air for almost a year.
Berlin Blockade
The most infamous symbol of the Cold War was the _____ which divided the German capital.
Berlin Wall
Part of NAFTA, faces a separatist movement in Quebec
Canada
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Jamaica are part of the _____ Islands.
Caribbean
Includes Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador
Central America
Communists drove out the Nationalists, who took refuge on the island of Taiwan.
China
Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution
China
Name three of the nations of the world that were still officially Communist in 1995.
China, North Korea, and Cuba.
Describe the American policy of containment.
Communism was not to be allowed to spread. The U.S would aid anyone in the world to prevent communism from spreading to their land.
The river whose basin covers most of central Africa is the
Congo River.
The United States blockaded Cuba to prevent nuclear weapons from being installed there during the
Cuban missile crisis.
Prague Spring of 1968 was crushed by the Warsaw Pact.
Czechoslovakia.
The Cold War "thaw" of the 1970s was called the
Detente.
Korean War military commander
Douglas MacArthur
Apennines Mountains
Europe
Danube River
Europe
Slovakia
Europe
Vatican City
Europe
Successor to the ECSC and the EC, formed by the Maastricht Treaty
European Union
Juan Peron was an unpopular military ruler in Portugal in the 1970s.
False
The (Socialist) social welfare programs in Europe have proven to be cheap and easy to maintain.
False
The Cuban economy has been growing and prospering since the end of the Cold War.
False
The General Assembly has oversight of territories under UN protection.
False
The Islamic fundamentalist movement in North Africa has been peaceful and supported by most of the governments.
False
The Secretary-General is a figurehead.
False
The Serbs, Croats, and Muslims of the former Yugoslavia settled their ethnic differences peacefully when Communist rule ended there.
False
The UN has its own army to enforce its decisions.
False
Cuban Communist leader
Fidel Castro
Egyptian president
Gamal Abdel Nasser
All countries in the United Nations are represented in the
General Assembly.
The _____ gave the president extensive authority to increase American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
American president who formulated containment policy
Harry Truman
Vietnamese Communist leader
Ho Chi Minh
Australia is surrounded by the
Indian Ocean.
North and South America touch at the
Isthmus of Panama.
Asia and Africa touch at the
Isthmus of Suez.
American president during Cuban Missile
John F. Kennedy
Soviet Leader, began the Cold War
Joseph Stalin
The largest fresh water lake in the world is
Lake Superior.
Baltic Republic, formerly part of the U.S.S.R.
Latvia
Leader of Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Chinese Communist leader
Mao Zedong
The United States gave substantial aid to Europe after World War II under the
Marshall Plan.
Predominately Muslim, site of the Persian Gulf War, part of Asia
Middle East
Last president of the U.S.S.R
Mikhail Gorbachev
The tallest mountain in the world is
Mount Everest.
The tallest mountain in Africa is
Mount Kilimanjaro.
The Western democracies formed a mutual defense alliance called _____ after World War II to face the growing Soviet threat.
NATO
The first defensive alliance the U.S ever entered into was
NATO.
The longest lake in the world is the _____ in Africa.
Nile River
Greenland
North America
Honduras
North America
Lakes Ontario and Erie
North America
The Catholic Church gave strength to the founders of Solidarity.
Poland
The Soviet Union set up Communist governments in:
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania.
The initial invasion by the North Koreans in 1950 drove the Allied troops back
Pusan Perimeter.
_____ was a series of agreements between the superpowers to reduce the number of nuclear weapons each held.
SALT
The largest desert in the world is the
Sahara.
The UN _____ is responsible for world peace and has five permanent members who have a veto over decisions.
Security Council
The first free trade union in a Communist country was
Solidarity.
Apartheid was their policy for years, U.S Cold War ally
South Africa
Amazon River
South America
Angel Falls
South America
Suriname
South America
A U-2 spy plane from the United States was shot down in 1960.
Soviet Union.
The U.S feared that communist China would ally itself with the
Soviet Union.
The first satellite ever launched into earth's orbit was the Soviet
Sputnik.
Europe and Africa nearly touch each other across the _____ at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea.
Straight of Gibraltar
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the United Nations?
Strengths include large participation, prestige and public debate of issues. Weaknesses include lack of enforcement, sheer size and veto power.
Who were the primary antagonists during the Cold War?
The U.S and the USSR (Not Russia).
Describe the policy of containment.
The United States was committed to keeping communism in the places where it already existed. The U.S. would oppose its spread anywhere else in the world.
What are the two historical events, including dates, that could be used to mark the end of the Cold War?
The fall of communism in Eastern Europe, 1989 and the breakup of the Soviet Union, 1991.
Africa's ethnic wars have created massacres and famines that cost hundreds of thousands of lives in the years since independence.
True
India's dominant Hindu population has come into violent conflict and Sikh minorities since independence.
True
Most of the former Communist nations are struggling against unemployment and crime, and some against ethnic violence.
True
Several European nations still have monarchs.
True
The Khmer Rouge was an incredibly brutal Communist Party in Cambodia.
True
The Security Council is responsible for keeping peace in the world.
True
The Soviets could veto any UN resolution.
True
The _____ are the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Ural Mountains
South American nation, founding member of OPEC
Venezuela
The longest river in Europe is the
Volga River.
The military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellites was called
Warsaw Pact.
The two parties in China's civil war were the _____ and _____
the Nationalists; Communists.