| What did the Truman Doctrine promise the United States would do? | assist countries whose governments were in danger of being overthrown by communist forces work to eliminate the stockpiling of nuclear weapons contribute funds to help Europe rebuild following World War II destroy the Soviet Union |
| What best describes the primary goal of U.S. foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War? | prevent the Soviet Union from spreading communism outside Eastern Europe maintain an isolationist position and ignore what was happening in the rest of the world continue to work with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to maintain world peace assist European colonies in Asia and Africa to gain their independence |
| Where did the United States first find itself in conflict with the Soviet Union during the Cold War? | Berlin China North Korea Cuba |
| Why was NATO created? | to protect Western countries from Soviet aggression to protect the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe from Western aggression to rebuild Japan after World War II to limit the testing of nuclear weapons |
| When the Nationalists were defeated in the Chinese civil war, where did they go? | Taiwan Japan Korea Vietnam |
| How did the Korean War begin? | North Korea invaded South Korea. South Korea invaded North Korea. China invaded South Korea. The United States bombed China. |
| What caused the First Indochina War? | France tried to reclaim Vietnam as a colony. South Vietnam invaded North Vietnam. China encouraged North Vietnam to attack South Vietnam. The Soviet Union placed a communist government in power in North Vietnam. |
| All the following were causes of famine during China’s Great Leap Forward except | the destruction of crops during war the use of farm labor to produce steel and work on construction projects the requisitioning of grain to feed industrial workers and city dwellers natural disasters like floods |
| On whom did Mao Zedong rely to destroy “bourgeois” elements of Chinese society in the Cultural Revolution? | students trusted members of the Chinese Communist Party teachers the Chinese Secret Police |
| All of the following are reasons Yugoslavia did not become part of the Eastern Bloc except | Tito did not want Yugoslavia to be a communist country. Tito believed the Soviet Union should treat Yugoslavia as an equal. Tito supported the civil war in Greece, which Stalin did not. Tito wanted to incorporate other countries into Yugoslavia, which Stalin opposed. |
| Which of the following best describes the goal of members of the Non-Aligned Movement? | to avoid becoming satellites of either the Western or the Eastern Bloc to become the industrial equals of the United States and the Soviet Union to avoid becoming communist nations to establish Western-style forms of democratic government |
| Why did France, Israel, and the United Kingdom attack Egypt in 1956? | Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and closed it to Israel. Egypt launched an air attack on Israel. Egypt defaulted on loans it owed to France and the United Kingdom. Egypt was undergoing a communist revolution. |
| In which European satellite country did the Soviet Union stage an armed intervention in the 1950s? | Hungary Romania Bulgaria East Germany |
| What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion? | to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro to prevent a communist revolution in Cuba to remove nuclear missiles from Turkey to kill Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Why did President Kennedy begin a naval blockade of Cuba in 1962? | to prevent the Soviet Union from installing missiles aimed at the United States to force Fidel Castro from power to provide assistance to the government of Fulgencio Batista to prevent Cuba from using its submarines to mine U.S. harbors |
| Which country did the Mau Mau try to liberate? | Kenya Ethiopia Ghana Angola |
| The expense of fighting a war in Afghanistan contributed to | the collapse of the Soviet Union Ronald Reagan’s loss of the 1984 presidential election the overthrow of the Shah of Iran successful revolts in the central Asian Soviet republics |
| Which Serbian leader led an ethnic cleansing campaign against Albanians in Kosovo? | Slobodan Milošević Josip Broz Tito Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin |
| Who was responsible for transforming China’s economy by introducing elements of capitalism in the late 1970s? | Deng Xiaoping Liu Shaoqi Mao Zedong Jiang Qing |
