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.