Cold War Review

Cold War Review

12th Grade

10 Qs

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Cold War Review

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Assessment

Quiz

History

12th Grade

Hard

Created by

Chase Haywood

Used 4+ times

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

What name did Winston Churchill create for the political division represented by the black line in this image?

The Berlin Wall

The Soviet Curtain

The Iron Curtain

The Soviet Bloc

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the main reason the Soviet Union wanted a buffer zone in Eastern Europe?

The Soviet Union was attempting to drain European nation's resources.

The Soviet Union wanted to create an international organization that could rival the United Nations.

The Soviet Union was attempting to unify eastern Europe under their religion.

The Soviet Union wanted to prevent future invasions after suffering mass casualties during WWII.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"...Asia, after all, has already lost some 450 million of its peoples to the Communist dictatorship, and we simply can’t afford greater losses. But when we come to the possible sequence of events, the loss of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Indonesia following, now you begin to talk about areas that not only multiply the disadvantages that you would suffer through loss of materials, sources of materials, but now you are talking really about millions and millions and millions of people."

This quote from President Eisenhower best represents what popular Cold War theory?

Marshall Plan

Isolationism

Domino Theory

Doomsday Theory

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name given to George F. Kennan's strategy to prevent the spread of communism into other nations?

The Berlin Blockade

Détente

Containment

Total War

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following was not a source of competition for the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War?

Nuclear Weapons

Colonization of Africa for raw materials

The Space Race

The spread of communism/ capitalism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the US Secretary of State's proposal that granted $13 billion to European nations for reconstruction and economic recovery?

Marshall Plan

Truman Doctrine

Berlin Airlift

NATO

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the 1949 military alliance between the US, Canada, Iceland, and many western European nations?

The Warsaw Pact

NATO

United Nations

League of Nations

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