1.

In response to the Marshall Plan, Stalin

 a. forbade Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to ask for aide. 

 b. engineered fledgling communist governments in Eastern Europe and the
Balkans. 
 c. formalized the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON). 
 d. All of these 

2. The victors in the Chinese Civil War were the ___________________.

 a. Nationalists 
 b. supporters of Chiang Kai-shek 
 c. supporters of Mao Zedong 
 d. supports of Ho Chi Minh 

3. ____________ was the person who proposed the policy of containment.

 a. Joseph Stalin 

 b. Harry Truman 
 c. George F. Kennan 
 d. George C. Marshall 

4. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold
War, which could be best described as

 a. direct military engagement. 

 b. peaceful co-existence 
 c. socialism in one country 
 d. engagement through proxy states and ideological struggle. 

5. “Free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by

outside pressures,” is a quote from which of the following?

 a. United Nations 

 b. Containment 
 c. Truman Doctrine 
 d. Stalin’s insistence on communist block unity 

6. Which of the following Latin American leaders best represents populist movements?

 a. Fidel Castro 

 b. Juan Perón 
 c. Evo Morales 
 d. None of these 
7. Political policies or principles that seek to represent the interests of ordinary people
can best be described as ______________.

 a. Fascism 
 b. Nazism 
 c. Democracy 
 d. Populism 

8. The Cold War turned “hot” in which region of the globe?

 a. Europe 
 b. North America 
 c. the Korean Peninsula 
 d. China 

9. The “Berlin Airlift” was undertaken by

 a. the Soviet Union in response to the Marshall Plan. 

 b. the western powers to disrupt Eastern European recovery. 
 c. the United States + Britain to deliver food to Berlin for over a year. 
 d. remaining Nazi to escape war crime trials. 

10. Which of the following conferences did Franklin Roosevelt attend?

 a. Yalta 
 b. Potsdam 
 c. Fulton 
 d. Manhattan 

11. In which year did the Soviet Union detonate its first atomic weapon

 a. 1945 
 b. 1949 
 c. 1951 
 d. 1955 

12. Which statement best describes the immediate turn of events after China’s
involvement in the Korean War?

 a. U.N. forces were pushed back deep into South Korea. 
 b. The Chinese lost Russian support. 
 c. The Chinese lost territory to the Americans. 
 d. Taiwan was captured by the Chinese. 

13.    _______ is the line at which the two Koreas established an armistice in 1953.

 a. The Chinese boarder 

 b. The 58th parallel 
 c. The 83rd parallel 
 d. The 38th parallel 
13. After setbacks on both sides, the Cold War reached its highest climax during the
_____.

 a. Space race 

 b. ICBM 
 c. Bay of Pigs invasion 
 d. Cuban Missile Crisis 

14. The conflict in the Koreas helped to produce what kind of reaction in America?

 a. A more tolerant understanding of communism. 

 b. A fervent anti-communism led by Senator McCarthy 
 c. A fervent anti-communism led by President Eisenhower 
 d. Unprecedented economic catastrophe 

15. Which American policy maker had NO involvement with the failed “Bay of Pigs”
invasion?

 a. George F. Kennan 

 b. John F. Kennedy 
 c. Dwight D. Eisenhower 
 d. Allen Dulles 

16. The Soviet equivalent to NATO was________________.

 a. the United Nations 

 b. nuclear weapons 
 c. a blockade of Berlin 
 d. the Warsaw Pact 

17. George Kennan's policy of containment was based on________________.

 a. a belief that the communists would win the Chinese civil war
 b. an understanding with Britain regarding post-WWII German government
 c. a belief that the Soviet Union would try to expand the reach of communism
 d. a desire to keep the Republicans from regaining the White House in the
1948 election

18. Why did the U.S. and the Soviet Union not want to get into  "hot war" during the Cold
War Era?

 a. The potential for global nuclear annihilation.

 b. They lost too many soldiers in WW2
 c. UN forbade them to fight
 d. Pressure from UK to keep peaceful relations
19. Which of these was a cause of the Korean War?

 a. NATO air and naval forces blocked ships sailing to North Korea.
 b. United Nations inattention allowed guerrillas to infiltrate South Korea
 c. Widespread anti-colonial riots forced Korean government to begin war.
 d. North Korean forces, with Soviet approval, invaded South Korea

20. After WW2, Korea was __________________________.

 a. divided into a republic in the south and communism in the north.
 b. divided into a republic in the north and communism in the south.
 c. governed by an alliance of western European nations. 
d. unified for the first time in many years.

21. Who led UN forces in the Korean war?

 a. Douglas MacArthur.

 b. Dwight Eisenhower.
 c. Hulme
d. Teddy Roosevelt

22. The Iron Curtain cut off___________________________.

 a. Eastern Europe to the rest of the world

 b. The United States to the rest of the world.
 c. Russia to the rest of the world.
d. Western Europe to the rest of the world.

23. What did MAD stand for?

 a. Missiles Are Dangerous

 b. Mutual Assured Destruction
 c. More Action Destroyed
d. Mega Announced Disaster

24. When did the fighting during the Korean war end?

 a. November 1954

 b. July 1953
 c. December 1954
d. October 1953

25. Which is NOT a reason Korea was important to the USSR and USA?

 a. The USSR needed an Asian country to establish its communist influence.
 b. Korea was a military threat to both the USSR and the USA.
 c. China had become communist, so the USA wanted to prevent communism
from spreading further
d. US government believed USSR backed the invasion and followed through
on containment policy
Short answer section:

1) Who was the leader of South Korea during the cold war? (1)

2) Who was the leader of North Korea during the cold war? (1)

3) Who was the military dictator who was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution? (1)

4) Who was the leader of Cuba post revolution? (1)

5) What was the USA’s ideologies? (1)

6) What was the USSR’s ideology? (1)

Written Section

1) How did the decisions made at the Yalta conference contribute to the start of the cold
war? (3)

2) What effect did the revelation of USA’s atom bombs have? (3)

3) How did the decisions made at the Potsdam conference contribute to the start of the cold
war? (3)

4)What was the Cuban Missile Crisis, which were the major events that led to it? (4)
4) What did the Cuban Missile Crisis lead to? (4)

5) What was the Long telegram? (2)

6) What was the Novikov telegrams? (2)

7) What was the Marshall Plan? (2)

8) What was the Truman Doctrine? (2)

9) What was the Warsaw pact and when was it set up and why? (2)
10) What was NATO, and when was it set up and why? (2)

11) What was Cominform, and when was it set up and why? (2)

12) What was Comecon, and when was it set up and why? (2)

13) Explain post WW2 Germany’s division, why it led to the Berlin Blockade and what
resulted from the blockade? (5)