Checking For Understanding - Cold War - Reading 1-3

What is the United Nations?

• World organization formed to prevent war

• A private company for global trade

• A sports federation

• A historical monument

What is the iron curtain?

• Division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War

• A famous European painting from the Renaissance period

• A type of medieval armor used by knights

• A natural barrier of mountains in Asia

What is NATO?

• Military alliance including the United States, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe

• International economic organization focused on trade agreements

• Environmental group dedicated to climate change initiatives

• Global health organization combating pandemics

U.S. goals and Soviet goals differed after World War II in the following way:

• The U.S. wanted to promote democracy and free markets, while the Soviet Union sought to expand communism and control Eastern Europe.

• Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union wanted to expand communism across Europe.

• The U.S. and the Soviet Union both aimed to establish monarchies in Europe.

• The U.S. wanted to isolate itself from world affairs, while the Soviet Union promoted global democracy.

What countries were separated from the West by the iron curtain?

• Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia.

• France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal.

• Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.

• Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and Malta.

What is a 'commune' in the context of China?

• A) A type of government

• B) Large farm setup in which many families work the land and live together

• C) A military group

• D) A student organization

Who were the Red Guards?

• Communist leaders

• Young Chinese students who carried out the Cultural Revolution

• Nationalist soldiers

• Farmers

Who fought the civil war in China during the 1930s and 1940s?

• The Nationalists and the Communists fought the civil war in China.

• The British and the French fought the civil war in China.

• The Japanese and the Americans fought the civil war in China.

• The Russians and the Germans fought the civil war in China.

Who led the Nationalists in the Chinese civil war?

• Jiang Jieshi

• Mao Zedong

• Sun Yat-sen

• Deng Xiaoping

Who was Ho Chi Minh?

• Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam

• Leader of United Nations forces during the Korean War

• Leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam

• Nixon’s plan for gradually withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam