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Grade 9 Cold War
What was not a cause of the Cold War?
  1. All lesser powers were greatly weakened by the war
  2. The U.S. and USSR have very different political systems
  3. The U.S. and USSR have opposite Ideologies
  4. Britain was not weakened by the War
Grade 10 Cold War
The Cold War originated directly after which war?
  1. The Cold War
  2. World War II
  3. World War I
  4. Korean War
Grade 11 Cold War
What is the purpose of NATO?
  1. Resist the spread of communism
  2. Protect Western Europe from Soviet aggression
  3. Give foreign aid to European countries
  4. Both a and b
Grade 6 Cold War
The loan program to help rebuild Europe after World War II was called the                                   
  1. Truman Doctrine.
  2. Marshall Plan.
  3. Warsaw Pact.
  4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Grade 9 Cold War
The U.S. policy to contain Communism was called
  1. Marshall Plan
  2. Truman Doctrine
  3. Berlin Airlift
  4. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Grade 11 Cold War
In 1962 what was later called the "Cuban Missile Crisis" aerial photographs taken by the U.S. showed two actions taking place that alarmed the U.S. What were they?
  1. Cubans building missile sites in forests
  2. Soviet ships carrying missiles to Cuba
  3. Soviets building Nuclear Weapons
  4. Both a and b
  5. Both a and c
Grade 6 Cold War
The Soviet leader who introduced reforms that loosened government control was                   
  1. Mikhail Gorbachev.
  2. Nicholas II.
  3. Joseph Stalin.
  4. Boris Yeltsin.
Grade 10 Cold War
He was president of the United States during the Vietnam War.
  1. Dick Cheney
  2. Bob Dole
  3. Lyndon B. Johnson
Grade 11 Cold War
The single most important reason the U.S. became engaged in the Cold War was to                                               
  1. prevent the communist takeover of East Berlin
  2. stop the spread of terrorism
  3. limit the development of nuclear weapons
  4. stop the spread of communism
Grade 9 Cold War
When the Soviet Union put missiles on Cuba it nearly started a nuclear war, this was called
  1. The U.S. missile Crisis
  2. The Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. The Soviet Missile Crisis
  4. The Nuclear Missile Crisis
Grade 10 Cold War
What event was the closest the world had ever came to nuclear warfare?
  1. Cuban Missile Crisis
  2. Hungarian Uprising
  3. Vietnam War
  4. Korean War
Grade 10 Cold War
A Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues.
  1. glasnost
  2. globalization
  3. guarantee
  4. getting together
Grade 6 Cold War
The Soviet leader who introduced reforms that loosened government control was .
  1. Mikhail Gorbachev.
  2. Nicholas II.
  3. Joseph Stalin.
  4. Boris Yeltsin.
Grade 10 Cold War
Who was president of the United States during the Vietnam War?
  1. Barack Obama
  2. Lyndon B. Johnson
  3. James Buchanan
  4. Theodore Roosevelt
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