Cold War Test Review
1. Who were the two superpowers that emerged after WWII?
2. What was the conflict called between the Soviets and the U.S.?
3. How was Europe divided after WWII?
4. What was the iron curtain?
5. Describe communism.
6. Describe capitalism.
7. What does NATO stand for and who was in it?
8. What was the Communist organization formed in response to NATO?
9. During the Cultural Revolution, who did Mao turn to to create a new army?
10. What does it mean to be a non-aligned country?
11. Identify the characteristics of a communist economy.
12. After WWII, which are was the most influenced by the Soviet Union?
13. Describe the direction taken by Eastern European nations after WWII.
14. Why were communist governments established in Eastern Europe after WWII?
15. Why were the U.S. and USSR unwilling to directly go to war during the Cold War?
16. How was the Cold War harmful to the Soviet Union?
17. Why were the Soviets successfully able to dominate Eastern Europe after WWII?
18. What was the Berlin Wall a symbol of?
19. Why did many Asian and African countries follow the policy of nonalignment?
20. Which leader won China’s civil war and what did he name the country?
21. Who were the majority of the Vietcong?
22. What was Sputnik?
23. Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
24. Put the leaders of the Soviet Union in order from Lenin to Gorbachev.
25. How was the city of Berlin divided in postwar Germany?
26. What policy was put in place to stop the spread of Communism? Describe the domino theory.
27. Explain détente.
28. What was the Marshall Plan and what was its purpose?
29. Who are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council? What powers do they have and when did they use them during the Cold War?
30. Why did the U.S. get involved in Korea and Vietnam?
31. How are the Hungarian Revolt and Prague Spring similar (what were their goals)?
32. Describe perestroika and explain its goal.
33. What was the Gulf of Tonkin incident and how was it used by LBJ?
34. Where was the major nuclear disaster of Eastern Europe?
35. Identify the views of Fidel Castro.
36. Describe the purpose of the Vietnam War from the eyes of a North Vietnamese.
37. Describe the political situation in Eastern Europe during the 1980’s.
38. What were the effects of the Blockade of Berlin, the Berlin Airlift, the Warsaw Pact, and the building of the Berlin Wall?
Open Response
The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II as the world’s two superpowers. No other countries were equal to them in military power or political influence. Differences in political beliefs and policies soon pulled the two superpowers apart and led to a struggle between them known as the Cold War.
List three political or social ideologies in which the United States and the Soviet Union had differing opinions and then explain the different views that each country had regarding those ideologies.