Unit 9 Review

What is the Domino theory?

• A communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism
• A communist victory in South Vietnam would cause North Vietnam to declare war on the United States
• A South Vietnamese victory would cause communist governments in Asia to declare war on the United States
• A communist victory in South Vietnam would cause the people of Vietnam to rebel against the communist government

What was the purpose of the Great Leap Forward?

• To spread Chinese communism throughout Asia
• To increase farm and industrial output in China
• To purge China of bourgeois tendencies
• To protect North Korea from South Korea

What was the strategy of Containment?

• To offer financial incentives to communist countries to adopt democracy
• To impose economic sanctions on communist countries until they adopted democracy
• To limit communism to the areas already under Soviet control
• To ensure that communism did not gain a foothold in the United States

How is the U.S. economy different from the former Soviet Union’s economy?

• There are fewer goods available
• The state makes all the decisions
• There is less economic freedom
• There is more economic freedom

What was the Marshall Plan designed to do?

• Promote free elections in Europe after World War II
• Help European countries rebuild after World War II
• Help Eastern European countries break away from the Soviet Union
• Convince European countries to join NATO

Who first used the term 'iron curtain' to describe what happened in Europe at the end of World War II?

• Joseph Stalin
• Winston Churchill
• Harry Truman
• Franklin Roosevelt

What was the main reason Mao Zedong was able to make China communist?

• The landlords supported him because he demanded obedience
• The business owners supported him because he wanted to industrialize China
• The peasants supported him because he promised them land
• The warlords supported him because he promised them tax revenues

Why did the United Nations intervene in North Korea?

• The Soviets backed the South Korean government
• South Koreans invaded North Korea
• North Koreans invaded South Korea
• Chinese invaded the Korean Peninsula

Why did Korea remain divided after the Korean War?

• North and South Korea negotiated a ceasefire but not a peace treaty
• South Korea remained communist
• China and the United States insisted on it
• The Soviet Union's influence decreased

Why did U.S. leaders withdraw troops from Vietnam?

• They believed the South Vietnamese could win it on their own
• The Viet Cong built supply trails in Cambodia
• The Soviet Union began bombing the south
• They realized that they could not win the war