Test

Question 0

What lands did the Soviet Union get from the yalta conference?

Answer 0

Eastern Europe

Question 1

What was the yalta conference?

Answer 1

The decision to divide Germany into four zones.

Question 2

What two nations were superpowers after World War II?

Answer 2

USA and Soviet Union

Question 3

The competition of what two economic systems produced the Cold War. What economy did the USSR have?

Answer 3

Communist and capitalism.

Question 4

What peacekeeping organization was established following WWII

Answer 4

United Nations

Question 5

The offering of American aid to the European nations after WWII was known as what plan?

Answer 5

Marshall Plan

Question 6

What two military alliances formed as a result of the Cold War?

Answer 6

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Question 7

Who was in NATO?

Answer 7

Western Europe USA and Canada

Question 8

Who was in the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 8

Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Question 9

Who made the iron curtain speech?

Answer 9

Winston Churchill

Question 10

What was the Berlin airlift?

Answer 10

When Berlin dropped aid for people

Question 11

What did the policy of containment mean?

Answer 11

Stopping something from spreading to the USA

Question 12

What two sides fought in the Chinese civil war?

Answer 12

Communist and nationalist

Question 13

Which side did the Soviet Union support in the Chinese civil war?

Answer 13

Communist

Question 14

Who led the communist revolution in china?

Answer 14

Mao Zedong

Question 15

Who won the Chinese civil war?

Answer 15

Communist

Question 16

Where were losers of the Chinese civil war forced to flee to?

Answer 16

Taiwan

Question 17

When was the Korean War?

Answer 17

1950- 1953

Question 18

What nations helped North Korea by providing it with soldiers in the Korean War?

Answer 18

China

Question 19

What event started the Korean War?

Answer 19

When the north invaded the south

Question 20

what American policy was used to justify the US aiding South Korea in the Korean War?

Answer 20

Containment

Question 21

Who won the Korea war?

Answer 21

Nobody/Stalemate

Question 22

What happened to Korea after the Korean War?

Answer 22

They became permanently split.

Question 23

What was the American motivation for entering both the Korean and Vietnamese wars?

Answer 23

Containment

Question 24

What was the domino theory?

Answer 24

The idea that when one country fell, the rest would fall too.

Question 25

In 1954 France lost control of Vietnam what happened to the nation as a result of the peace treaty that followed.

Answer 25

They split.

Question 26

When was the Vietnamese conflict?

Answer 26

1960-1970s

Question 27

Who was the leader of the Communist North Vietnam

Answer 27

Ho chi men

Question 28

Why did the South Vietnamese government lose popularity in the years leading up to the Vietnam War?

Answer 28

Because they had a dictator.

Question 29

Who was the corrupt nationalist leader in South Vietnam?

Answer 29

Ngo Dinh diem

Question 30

Why did the Americans get involved in Vietnam conflict?

Answer 30

Containment

Question 31

What was the gulf of Tonkin resolution?

Answer 31

Sent American troops to Vietnam

Question 32

What was Vietnamization?

Answer 32

Giving control to the south.

Question 33

What president was responsible for withdrawing US troops from vietnam?

Answer 33

Richard Nixon

Question 34

After the US took its troops out of Vietnam what happened to the country?

Answer 34

They collapsed/ fell to communist

Question 35

What is Vietnam like today?

Answer 35

They are reunited but still under communist.

Question 36

Who became the leader of Cuba in 1959?

Answer 36

Fidel Castro.

Question 37

Who was the president of the US during the bay of pigs invasion?

Answer 37

John F Kennedy

Question 38

What nations began building missile sites on Cuba?

Answer 38

Russia and Soviet Union

Question 39

Why did the East Germans build a wall in Berlin in 1961?

Answer 39

To separate themselves from west Germany

Question 40

How did the Cold War end?

Answer 40

When the Berlin Wall fell.

Question 41

What American and Soviet leaders are given the credit for ending the Cold War?

Answer 41

Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan

Question 42

Glasnost and perestroika mean what?

Answer 42

Restructuring and openness

Question 43

Who was the leader of the USSR during the collapse of the union?

Answer 43

Gorbachev.

Question 44

How did nationalism in the Warsaw Pact countries play a role in the collapse of the USSR?

Answer 44

Started breaking away from the Soviet Union.

Question 45

Why was the Berlin Wall torn down?

Answer 45

East Germans wanted their freedom.

Question 46

What happened to the former soviet satellites?

Answer 46

They became independent.

Question 47

When the Cold War ended what expanded its membership?

Answer 47

NATO

Question 48

What new nations joined NATO?

Answer 48

West Germany

Question 49

Who was Margaret thatcher?

Answer 49

First women prime minister of England.

Question 50

Who is Indira ghandi?

Answer 50

The First Lady prime minister of India

Question 51

Who is deng xiaoping?

Answer 51

Politician