The Cold War

The big three present at the Yalta Conference were Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ?

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Harry Truman

• Nikita Khrushchev

Who received a larger portion of German territory after the Yalta Conference?

• The United States

• France

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

What did the Soviet Union do to physically keep out the West from Eastern Europe?

• They built a canal separating the land

• They bombed Western Europe

• They built the Berlin Wall

• They created a larger military force to intimidate the West

The beginning of the Cold War comes with the forming of alliances. The U.S., England and France led NATO. What alliance did the Soviets form in Eastern Europe?

• Warsaw Pact

• Russian Pact

• Stalin Alliance

• Axis Pact

An individual nation that falls under the sphere of influence of a larger nation is consider a ________ nation?

• Bonus

• Imperial

• Satellite

• Communist

The idea of two nations using nuclear weapons against one another and thereby destroying themselves is considered?

• Mutually assured destruction

• Mutually denied existence

• Considerable death factor

• Collateral damage

Who led the communist party in China?

• Chiang Kai Shek

• Kim Il Sung

• Ho Chi Mihn

• Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong greatly admired Joseph Stalin so he imitated his plan to restructure a nation completely under communism called?

• The Great Purge

• 5 Year Plan

• The Communist Design

• Soviet Progress Plan

Korea was divided along the ?

• Border with China

• Equator

• 38th parallel

• Prime Meridian

True or False: The U.S. was successful in Vietnam and saved the country from falling to communism.

• True

• False