The United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II because
The Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons.
The Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe.
Communists and Western capitalists distrusted each other.
The United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states
The Truman Doctrine promised to
Restore control of satellite states to the Soviet Union.
End the civil war in Greece and rid the country of communism.
Give economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Use military force to fight Communist expansion in Asia.
The Marshall Plan was based on the idea that
North and South Korea should be unified.
Military force was the best way to contain communism.
Nations should maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons.
Communism succeeded only in countries with economic problems.
The Berlin Wall was erected in order to
Protect Soviet military supplies.
Retaliate against U.S. aggression.
Prevent the spread of communism.
Stop the flow of refugees from East Germany.
The Warsaw Pact was a
development of trade agreements amongst the Western European states.
A military agreement between the United States, France, and Great Britain.
U.S. policy to rebuild war torn Europe.
military alliance of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European states.
NATO was formed to provide
Mutual help to the Soviet Union and its allies around the Atlantic ocean.
Economic relief to East Germany.
Military support for Brazil.
Mutual help to the United States and its allies around the Atlantic ocean.
Which war sparked an expansion of United States' military alliances around the world?
The Korean War.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The War in Vietnam
Russia's war with Ukraine
The United States policy of containment was designed to
Keep communism within its existing boundaries and prevent Soviet aggression.
Limit political discussion in the United States.
Limit the loss of American troops around the world.
Stop biological warfare from damaging the United States.
What was the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States?
The United States nationalized their economy to better beat the Soviets.
Both countries built up their armies and increased their weapons arsenals.
A reduction of traditional armed forces in favor of nuclear weapons.
The Soviets started a free market economy to better beat the United States.
What was the policy of deterrence?
The United States needed to become allies with every country in the world to prevent Soviet aggression
A policy that led to a reduction of nuclear weapons.
The Soviets believed they could stop U.S. aggression by expanding their industrial capacity.
The policy held that huge arsenals of nuclear weapons on both sides prevented war.
After Mao's forces claimed victory in the civil war...
The Chinese people voted overwhelmingly to follow Chiang Kai-Shek
The communists overturned Mao and took away his leadership.
Mao gave up the presidency and invited the south to join his forces.
Chiang Kai-Shek and his 2 million followers fled to Taiwan.
The purpose of Mao's Great Leap Forward program was to
Allow more people to work in industry.
Encourage workers to start new businesses.
Increase the governments aid to individuals.
Force more people to farm private plots of land.
The Red Guards consisted of people who were
Eager to help others.
Traditional.
Future capitalists.
Unhappy and discontented.
Why did the people of China ultimately reject the Cultural Revolution?
The Red Guards' actions horrified them.
Its ideas were rooted in old culture.
It stood for change.
Mao did not believe in it.
Why did the United States fear the spread of communism to China?
The United States worried that communists would dominate the world.
The United States believed China was poised to launch a military attack on the U.S.
The United States feared China's growing industrial power.
It interrupted United States' plans to invade China.
The primary purpose of the Red Guards was to
Encourage western thought and tradition in China.
Protect members of the intellectual class in China.
Force the Chinese people to obey the new ideas and eliminate the old ones.
Preserve Chinese tradition.
Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party when they won the civil war following World War II
Premier Nikita Krushchev
People's Republic Leader Sun Tzu
Chairman Mao Zedong
President Chiang Kai-Shek
Why did the huge communes in China fail?
The peasants were unwilling to work on farms.
Russia invaded China interrupting the switch to communes.
Bad weather and the peasants hatred of the new system.
The huge communes in China did not fail, they were successful.
What was Mao's idea of a permanent revolution?
An ongoing violent conflict between the government and its people.
An atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor enabling China to achieve the final stage of communism.
A state of freedom in which every member of society was able to vote on every decision the government made.
A cultural shift from devotion to the government to devotion to the family and tradition.
What was the Little Red Book?
A pamphlet instructing Communist Party members in urban combat.
A journal recording Western thoughts on the Chinese Civil War.
A collection of Mao's thoughts and an important source for Chinese communists.
A collection of famous Chinese artworks for preservation.
The United States sent troops to Vietnam to
Drive the French out of Vietnam.
Stop the North from controlling the South.
Gain the support of the American public.
Stop the South from controlling the North.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba if the United States would
Not invade Cuba.
Send aid to Cuba
Stop the blockade of Cuba
Remove missiles from Florida.
The United States considered Cuba a threat because
Cuba, which is 90 miles from Florida, had ties with the Soviets.
The Cuban government had been overthrown and was unstable.
Cuban exiles had informed the United States about missiles in Cuba.
Castro and Kennedy did not trust each other.
The United States government believed that if they lost South Vietnam to communism.
United States citizens would turn against the war
North Vietnam would become communist too.
Other Asian countries would come to the aid of South Vietnam.
Other Asian countries would also fall to communism.
Which government allied with North Korea in its attempt to take over South Korea?
United States
France
Vietnam
Soviet Union
At the end of World War II, which country refused to end its colonial rule of Vietnam?
Japan
Britain
China
What military action began the Korean War?
China attempted to conquer the Korean peninsula.
With the approval of Stalin, North Korean troops invaded South Korea.
Japan deployed gunships to rebuild their imperial empire.
Vietnam started sending troops to other communist countries in Asia.
What political theory was used to justify United States military involvement in Vietnam.
The policy of deterrence, a belief that possessing huge arsenals of nuclear weapons?
Mutually Assured Destruction, a military doctrine that guaranteed absolute destruction to all sides if nuclear weapons were used.
The cultural revolution, the idea that only through radically transforming a country's culture could communism be stopped.
The domino theory, an idea that if one country fails to communism neighboring countries will also fall.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was the result of a CIA plan
To liberate North Korea from communist rule.
To win the Vietnam War.
The use exiled Cuban fighters to invade Cuba.
To launch a surprise attack on the Soviet Union.
When the United States and the Soviet Union used substitutes to fight each other, they became involved in
the construction of massive public works projects
Economic sabotage
Proxy wars.
a naval arms race
British India was divided along religious lines into which two countries in 1947?
Punjab and Bangladesh
Bangladesh and Pakistan
India and Punjab
India and Pakistan
Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated as a consequence of
Violence following the creation of Bangladesh.
The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Violence following the independence of Pakistan from India.
Conflict surrounding Punjab independence.
Jawaharlal Nehru modeled the new Congress Party in charge of the independent Indian government after
The socialists ideals of the British Labor Party.
The communist ideas of the Chinese Communist Party.
Traditional Indian monarchies
The Russian oligarchies.
How did Indira Gandhi's government react to militant Sikhs demand for independence of the Punjab region?
The government cut off all financial aid to the region.
The government used military force to crush the rebellion, killing more than 450 Sikhs.
The government granted independence to the Punjab region.
There was an increase in the number of Sikh representatives in the national government of India.
What is the significance of Kashmir in India's history?
Its independence brought about peace between India and Pakistan
For decades, India and Britain fought over who would control it.
The United States and the Soviet Union used it as a political pawn in the Cold War.
Religious differences contributed to India and Pakistan fighting for its control.
How did the principle of nonalignment influence India's foreign policy?
India overthrew the governments of Bangladesh and Pakistan.
India refused to take sides in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The United States placed an embargo on Indian goods.
Nonalignment led to a war with the Soviet Union.
Why did the United States pressure the Netherlands to grant independence to Indonesia?
The Netherlands wanted to colonize all of Southeast Asia.
The United States supported Achmed Sukarno's non-Communist National Party.
The Indonesian Communist Party was close to collapse.
The United States wanted to trade with the Netherlands.
After the Vietnam War the country of Vietnam was unified under what syle of government?
Khmer Rouge
Communism
Democracy
Monarchy
Which European country refused to grant independence to it colonial possessions in Southeast Asia?
Spain
Great Britiain
The United States
Who has controlled Myanmar since the 1960s?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ferdinand Marcos
Pol Pot
The military
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser promoted Pan-Arabism, the idea that
Arabic culture needed to be preserved in museums.
Syria should be the leaders of the Arabic people
Arab countries needed to develop independently from each other.
Arabic people around the world should unify
Which of the following was one result of the 1947 UN resolution that sought to divide the Palestine Mandate?
The issue of a Palestinian homeland was finally settled.
Many Palestinians fled to refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries.
All Israeli's came under Palestinian rule.
All Palestinians came under Israel rule.
The basic religious difference between Iran and Iraq is
Iraqis are mostly Hindu and Iranians are mostly Sunni Muslim.
Iranians are mostly Shia Muslims, while Iraqi leaders under Saddam Hussein were mostly Sunni Muslims
Iranians are mostly Sunni Muslims, while Iraqi leaders under Saddam Hussein were mostly Shia Muslims
Iraqis are mostly Hindu and Iranians are mostly Shia Muslim.
One result of the Six Day War that caused the Arab-Israeli conflict to continue for years to come was
A million Israelis now lived in Arab-occupied territory.
Arabs now occupied the Sinai Peninsula.
A million Palestinians now lived in areas under Israeli control
Arab states doubled the size of territory under their control.
During the 1980s, some militant Palestinian Arabs
Signed a cease-fire agreement with Egypt.
Created an organization called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Overthrew the shah in Iran.
Led an intifada, or "üprising," in the territories occupied by Israel.
How did Israel respond to Arab armies assembling in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt?
Israel surrendered territory to Egypt and Jordan.
Israel asked the United Nations for help.
Israel launched air strikes against Egypt and Jordan.
Israel attacked Saudi Arabia.
The meeting at Camp David hosted by President Carter between Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat resulted in an Israeli Egyptian peace treaty and
Renewed bombing of Jordan by Israel.
A new alliance between Egypt and the United States.
A complete withdrawal of Israel from the Sinai peninsula.
Additional attacks Israel by the Egyptian Air Force.
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Which groups fought back against the Soviets?
The Taliban supported by the European Union.
The PLO supported by Israel.
The Khmer Rouge supported by the France and Spain.
The Mujahideen supported by the United States and Pakistan.
Why did many Iranians under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini oppose the Shah of Iran?
They wanted to become allies with Iraq.
They believed the new Iranian culture was influenced by the United States and was based on greed and materialism.
They believed that a new communist government would provide more opportunity for the people to access the oil wealth of Iran.
The Iranians believed that they needed to expand their military and become closer allies with the United States.
What event began the Persian Gulf War?
Israel bombed the Egyptian air force.
The United States invaded Afghanistan
Saddam Hussein sent troops into Kuwait to seize oil fields.
Iran invaded Saudi Arabia
