Cold War Final Quiz (open note)

Which of the following best describes the idea of communism?

• an economic system with free markets

• an economic system with no social classes

• an economic system based on supply and demand

• an economic system based on capitalism

Who was the founder of the idea of communism?

• VI Lenin

• Josef Stalin

• Karl Marx

• Mao ZeDong

• Otto Von Bismarck

Which of the following terms was used for government run farms that led to starvation in the Soviet Union and China?

• Collectivization

• The Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolutions

• Gulags

• 5 Year Plans

Which of the following were policies of Mao ZeDong?

• Gulags, 5-Year Plans

• Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution

• Cultural Revolution, 5-Year Plans

• Great Leap Forward, 5-Year Plans

Name the two countries where wars were fought to stop the spread of communism?

• China and Japan

• Korea and Vietnam

• India and Thailand

• Cambodia and Myanmar

What is the name of the two alliances of the Cold War divided by the 'iron curtain'?

• NATO / Warsaw Pact

• Triple Alliance / Central Powers

• The Allies / The Axis

• The UN / League of Nations

Which of the following events brought us closest to nuclear destruction? (a)  

• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Vietnam War
• The Berlin Airlift
• The Chinese civil war

The ​ (a)   in 1989 marked the symbolic end of the Cold War

• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Building of the Berlin Wall
• Berlin Airlift
• Tiananmen Square Protests
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Detente
• Afghan War

Following the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, and continuing today, China's political system continues to be a ​ (a)   but their economy is mostly ​ (b)   .

• Communist Dictatorship
• capitalist
• democratic
• Communist democracy
• Democratic socialism
• Communist economy
• command economy

Reorder the following

• Winston Churchill 'iron curtain' speech

• Nuclear bombing of Japan ends WWII

• Detente

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• The Cuban Missile Crisis