Cold War Proxy Wars & Competition Quiz

How did the USSR respond to the creation of NATO?

• Created the Warsaw Pact with European satellite countries

• Formed an alliance with China

• Tried to join NATO

• Supported the creation of a communist government in Afghanistan

What was considered the first major proxy war of the Cold War?

• Soviet-Afghanistan War

• Berlin airlift

• Korean War

• The Space Race

Which two countries were the main supporters of North Korea during the Korean War?

• China and the Soviet Union

• Japan and China

• The United States and Japan

• The Soviet Union and Japan

What was the outcome of the Korean War?

• Reoccupation of Korea by Japan

• Victory for South Korea and reunification of the Korean peninsula

• An armistice and the establishment of the Demilitarized Zone near the 38th parallel

• Victory for North Korea and their development of atomic bombs

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did the Soviet Union agree to do in exchange for the United States not invading Cuba?

• Withdraw its missiles from Cuba

• Provide financial aid to Cuba

• Withdraw its troops from Afghanistan

• Sign a peace treaty with the United States

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis impact the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union?

• It led to a significant improvement in relations

• It resulted in the signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

• It brought the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war

• It had no significant impact on their relationship

What was the main goal of the United States in the Korean War?

• To spread democracy in Asia

• To contain the spread of communism

• To acquire new territories

• To support the reunification of Korea

What did the USSR do to prevent people from leaving East Berlin to go to West Berlin?

• Paid people to stay in the East

• Built a wall in 1989

• Created a free market economy with the same freedoms as the West

• Built a wall in 1961

What concept did policymakers academics think was responsible for the superpowers NOT using their nuclear arsenals on each other?

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Mutually assured destruction (MAD)

• Lowest common denominator (LCD)

How did the U.S. and 64 other countries protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

• They boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics

• They boycotted the 1980 Winter Olympics

• They bombed Afghanistan

• They quarantined Cuba