Cold War practice test VT31

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The Cold War

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The Cold War was primarily

1. an ideological conflict between the West (USA etc.) and the USSR.
2. a lot of talk, but no real danger.
3. an exchange of threats and challenges made by political and military leaders
4. an exchange of nuclear bombs, delivered by planes and missiles

Even before WW2 was really over, Allied leaders met in Yalta to discuss the future of Europe after the war.
Which Allied country did not take part in the Yalta Conference?

1. Britain
2. France
3. The USA
4. The USSR

Which statement is true?
Statement I: At the Yalta Conference, it was decided that post-war Germany would be divided into four occupation zones.
Statement II: After the Second World War, Stalin allowed the Eastern European countries to have free elections.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

What were “hot spots” in the Cold War?

1. The places from which nuclear missiles were launched during the Cold War
2. Locations in the Iron Curtain that were issued with electric wire, roasting people who wanted to flee to the other side
3. A nickname for secret meetings between American and Soviet leaders
4. Events where USA and USSR supporting regional conflicts between communism and capitalism without going to war against each other

What did the word “Iron” in "Iron Curtain" refer to?

1. The military presence along the borders between communist and capitalist countries in Europe
2. The presence of lots of iron in the construction of the Berlin Wall
3. The difficulty in diplomatic relationships between de USA and the USSR
4. all other answers are correct

Which of the following countries did NOT belong
to the “East” in Europe?

1. Poland
2. Hungary
3. Austria
4. Albania

The USSR wanted a “buffer zone”. What does this mean?

1. A number of friendly countries between the USSR and the West
2. A group of satellite states west of the Iron Curtain
3. The American promise that the USA would not intervene in conflicts between the USSR and western Europe
4. A piece of no-man’s land between the east- and west side of the Berlin Wall.

Read the two statements. Which statement is correct?

I. The fact that Stalin’s armies were in Eastern Europe made the relationship
between the leaders of the Allied forces better that before.
II. During the Yalta Conference both USA and USSR agreed that
Germany should be crippled.

1. Only statement I is correct
2. Only statement II is correct
3. Both statements are incorrect.
4. Both statements are correct.

The USA policy to stop the Soviet expansion is known as:

1. The Berlin Blockade.
2. The Cold War.
3. The Truman Doctrine.
4. The Marshall Plan.

This logo illustrates:

1. the Truman Doctrine.
2. NATO
3. the Marshall Plan.
4. the Berlin Blockade.

Which statement is false?

1. Neither of the superpowers would win a nuclear war.
2. Nuclear war would be suicide for both the USA and the Soviet Union.
3. During the cold war, a nuclear attack was thought to be the best defence.
4. Nuclear war would lead to mutual destruction.

What does NATO stand for?

1. North American Treaty Office
2. Northern Alliance Treaty Organisation
3. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
4. New American Trust Organisation

Which map shows
Europe in 1949

use the source

1. kaart 1
2. kaart 2
3. kaart 3
4. kaart 4

Who said an iron curtain had descended across the continent of Europe?

1. Joseph Stalin
2. Harry S. Truman
3. Sir Winston Churchill.
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Berlin Blockade

1. Was Stalin’s plan to cut off West Berlin from western help
2. Was Stalin’s plan to prevent people from East Berlin to escape to the west
3. Was the start of the building of the Berlin Wall
4. Was Kennedy’s attempt to keep the Soviets out of West Berlin.

What was the most important goal of the Berlin airlift?

1. To make sure the people of West Berlin would not starve
2. To make sure the checkpoints between East and West Berlin stayed open.
3. To bring people who had escaped from East Berlin to safety in Western Germany.
4. To make sure West Berlin remained in western hands

What does MAD stand for?

1. Mobile Army Device
2. Mutually Accepted Deception
3. Mortal Assault Deterrent
4. Mutually Assured Destruction

What was the reaction of the Soviet Union towards the founding of the NATO?

1. They did nothing
2. They founded the Warsaw Pact
3. They founded the Stalin Pact
4. They tried to sabotage the NATO

Why did the East Germans build the Berlin Wall?

Three reasons are correct.
Which reason is INCORRECT?

1. The East German government could not afford to lose highly skilled workers
2. People fleeing from East Germany to the west was bad propaganda for communism
3. Families living in both East and West Berlin needed to be separated to avoid East Berlin people to watch West German television and be affected by it.
4. It helped the Soviet Union to keep a firm control of its East European satellites

What were the consequences of the Berlin Wall for the East Berlin people?

Three consequenses are correct.
Which one is INCORRECT?

1. East Berlin people could no longer be affected by west Berlin propaganda
2. Families were divided
3. Many people trying to escape were killed
4. East Berliners who had a job in West Berlin were no longer able to go to work.

This speech was given by
John F. Kennedy, who was he?

Why does he say people should come to Berlin?

Why was Berlin a good place to see the difference
between communism and capitalism?

Not a member of the Warsaw Pact was:

1. West Germany.
2. East Germany.
3. Poland.
4. The Soviet Union.

What was NOT accomplished during the space race?

1. The first satellite was sent to Mars
2. The first satellite was sent to orbit the earth
3. The first man was sent into orbit around the earth
4. The first animal ever was sent into space

What was the political policy of Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union?

1. Glasnost
2. De-Stalinisation
3. Gradually introducing a free market
4. Perestroika

Look at the photo.
a. What does it show?
b. Who took the picture?
c. To what crisis did this photo lead?
d. What did Kennedy do in reaction to this picture?

Not involved in the Cuban Missile crisis was:

1. Fidel Castro
2. John F. Kennedy
3. Nikita Krushchev
4. Joseph Stalin

Until 1954, Vietnam was a colony of:

1. France
2. Britain
3. China
4. The Soviet Union

The USA intervened in South Vietnam:

1. to prevent South Vietnam from becoming a communist nation.
2. to help the French get their colony back.
3. to establish an American capitalist colony.
4. to invade communist North Vietnam.

Who were the Vietcong?

1. North Vietnamese peasants supporting the communist north
2. South Vietnamese peasants supporting the communist north
3. North Vietnamese peasants supporting the capitalist south
4. South Vietnamese peasants supporting the capitalist south

Which statement is true?

Statement I: From 1954 onwards, the US army was fully engaged in the Vietnam War.
Statement II: The Viet Cong were allies of the USA.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

Why were the Americans, who were better equipped
than the north Vietnamese,
not able to win the war in Vietnam?

1. The North Vietnamese fought a guerilla war. US troops were not trained for this.
2. The North Vietnamese knew the jungle much better than the Americans
3. The North Vietnamese army got support from the local peasants
4. all other answers are correct

Which key-word does the image (background) represent? Explain the key-word

How did the media play a part in the hippie protests against the Vietnam War?

Gorbachev planned to change the Soviet Union.
Explain the terms "glasnost" and "perestroika".

Which of the given situations is an example of the policy of “glasnost”?

1. Restructuring the army.
2. Wider international political view
3. Open debate on government.
4. Put a ban on alcoholism.

Which of the given situations is an example of the policy of “perestroika”?

1. Restructuring the army.
2. Wider international political view
3. Open debate on government.
4. Put a ban on alcoholism.

Which option shows the Soviet leaders
in the correct order?

1. Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev, Lenin
2. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev
3. Stalin, Lenin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev,
4. Khrushchev, Stalin, Gorbachev, Lenin

What was the main reason for Gorbachev's reforms?

1. The USSR could no longer afford the arms race
2. Gorbachev was an American spy and wanted to sabotage the USSR
3. The USSR no longer wanted to control the Eastern Block countries
4. Gorbachev wanted better relations with the USA

Why could many Eastern European countries easily form new non-communist governments after Gorbachev rose to power? Choose your answer.

1. Because of the end of the Truman Doctrine.
2. Because Gorbachev was afraid of NATO interference.
3. Because the Soviet army no longer interfered in Eastern Bloc countries
4. Because Gorbachev had to focus on internal politics.

Which statement is false?

1. Gorbachev granted the Russians greater freedom of speech.
2. Gorbachev’s goal was to end the Soviet Union.
3. Gorbachev wanted to turn the Soviet economy into a free market economy.
4. Gorbachev wanted a better relationship with the USA.

The Berlin Wall fell after:

1. 20 years
2. 28 years
3. 36 years
4. 37 years

Which statement is true?

Statement I: German reunification and the Fall of the Wall took place in the same year.
Statement II: Gorbachev’s economic reforms were very successful.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

Look at this cartoon from 1991.

Drag 4 of the 6 names to the correct person in the picture. 

Lenin

Gorbachev

Khrushchev

Reagan

Stalin

Marx

Who / what is being buried?

use the source

1. Stalin
2. Gorbachev
3. Communism, so the USSR
4. Communism, so East Germany

What is the artist’s message?

use the source

1. Stalin was the strong man, without him the Soviet Union is doomed
2. In 1991 George Bush was elected president and this is to show that he will defeat the USSR and win the Cold War
3. Gorbachev has abandoned the old ways of the Soviet Union and now it is over because of him, so he failed or betrayed the men in the clouds.
4. Communism is ill, if we are not careful it may die

Drag the events to the correct decades.

Building the Berlin Wall

Operation Rolling Thunder

Start Korean War

Berlin Blockade

reunification of Germany

Paris Peace Accords

end of the Soviet Union

Fall Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Yalta Conference

Drag the names, flags and hotspots to the correct portrait. 

Three items should remain unused.

Winston Churchill

Ronald Reagan

Fidel Castro

Michael Gorbachev

Erich Honecker

Glasnost & Perestroika

"One small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind"

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"an Iron Curtain has decended across Europe"

 Missile Crisis

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