Cold War

Ho Chi Minh was a significant figure in the history of Southeast Asia because

• supported by the United States, he led the non-communist South Vietnamese government.

• he led local guerrillas against the Japanese who overran Indochina during World War I.

• he led his people against French control and later against the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government.

• supported by the French, he led the North Vietnamese in their fight against South Vietnam.

What were the main reasons for the failure of Mao's Great Leap Forward?

• Counterrevolutionaries seized control of China's farmland.

• Too many Chinese belonged to the middle class, or bourgeoisie.

• The Cultural Revolution proved to be a more effective way to move China forward.

• Industries turned out useless goods and communes removed incentives.

What was the significance of the formation in 1955 of the Southeast-Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)?

• Its formation was part of the Soviet Union's strategy to contain Western power by forming alliances.

• Its formation was part of the both the American and Soviet pursuit of detente.

• Its formation was part of the United States strategy to contain Soviet power by forming alliances.

• Its formation was part of the United States plan to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

What does this image from the 1950s show?

• preparation for a possible nuclear attack, called "duck and cover"

• fear of American communists in schools

• fear of an invasion by Cuban communists sneaking into Florida by boat

• preparation for a room-to-room search of contraband materials in U.S. schools.

What is the best description of the context for this statement by Harry Truman?

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

• Churchill and Stalin were behaving aggressively toward Eastern Europe.

• Soviet aggression toward Europe was mounting.

• The United States was ready to execute the Marshall Plan.

• Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany.

Which country is being referred to and compared to Germany in this statement?

As in Germany, the capitalist portion of the country had an economic boom and rising standards of living, while the communist zone went through economic stagnation and decline.

• Korea

• Thailand

• Philippines

• Cambodia

This statement refers to what initiative following World War II?

"The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products - principally from America - are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character."

• Tet Offensive

• Warsaw Pact

• Solidarity Movement

• Marshall Plan

To what American policy does this excerpt refer?

"Wherever it is considered timely and promising, efforts will be made to advance official limits of Soviet power."

• containment

• suburbanization

• collectivization

• glasnost

Which pair of letters accurately matches a leader with a role played by that leader in the chart?

• b-f

• a-e

• c-g

• d-h

Which country represents "X" in the chart?

• Portugal

• West Germany

• Czechoslovakia

• Cuba