Question 1

Communist China sent Chinese troops to assist Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong in the Second Indochina War.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The program of ​perestroika ​ was intended to allow more transparency into how the Soviet government worked.  ​

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Tito's argument about Yugoslavia being part of the buffer zone between East and West was ​

Accepted Answer

A) that he retained Yugoslavian nationalism at all costs 
B) he rejected Communism entirely and moved towards democracy 
C) the Communist Party in Yugoslavia rejected Stalinism, not Communism. 
D) "Socialism in one Nation" was a working mantra. 
E) Yugoslavia was dependent on western political ideas as part of their inclusion in NATO. 
A) that he retained Yugoslavian nationalism at all costs 
B) he rejected Communism entirely and moved towards democracy 
C) the Communist Party in Yugoslavia rejected Stalinism, not Communism. 
D) "Socialism in one Nation" was a working mantra. 
E) Yugoslavia was dependent on western political ideas as part of their inclusion in NATO.

Question 4

Which events made Stalin uneasy about the United States' intentions between 1945 and 1950?

Accepted Answer

A) The provision of American economic and military aid to the Ukraine. 
B) The stationing of United States ground forces in Finland and Iraq. 
C) Plans to merge the American, British and French occupation zones in Germany into a West German republic. 
D) The ban on Soviet participation in the European Recovery Program. 
E) The American threat to use atomic weapons the Middle East. 
A) The provision of American economic and military aid to the Ukraine. 
B) The stationing of United States ground forces in Finland and Iraq. 
C) Plans to merge the American, British and French occupation zones in Germany into a West German republic. 
D) The ban on Soviet participation in the European Recovery Program. 
E) The American threat to use atomic weapons the Middle East.

Question 5

By aiding the Afghanistan resistance to the Soviet Union, the United States helped maintain a Vietnam-like war that kept the Soviets bogged down in its own quagmire.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh Front

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese revolutiona

Question 7

The concept or policy of "equivalence" referred to

Accepted Answer

A) maintaining world caloric intake, per adult, at an average of 1700 calories per day. 
B) maintaining a rough military parity on the part of the superpowers to avoid a catastrophic nuclear confrontation. 
C) establishing tonnage targets to reduce the size of the United States and Soviet navies. 
D) equivalent national representation in the United Nations. 
E) the American policy of balance between the Soviet Union and Communist China. 
A) maintaining world caloric intake, per adult, at an average of 1700 calories per day. 
B) maintaining a rough military parity on the part of the superpowers to avoid a catastrophic nuclear confrontation. 
C) establishing tonnage targets to reduce the size of the United States and Soviet navies. 
D) equivalent national representation in the United Nations. 
E) the American policy of balance between the Soviet Union and Communist China.

Question 8

The Brezhnev Doctrine

Accepted Answer

A) promised Soviet support for the "Prague Spring" reformers. 
B) demanded that the Berlin Wall be dismantled. 
C) threatened the People's Republic of China with nuclear war. 
D) was a warning to other Communist states to follow the path of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy. 
E) promised to respect human rights in exchange for the recognition of the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. 
A) promised Soviet support for the "Prague Spring" reformers. 
B) demanded that the Berlin Wall be dismantled. 
C) threatened the People's Republic of China with nuclear war. 
D) was a warning to other Communist states to follow the path of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy. 
E) promised to respect human rights in exchange for the recognition of the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.

Question 9

The 1975 accord that recognized all central and eastern European borders that had been established since the end of World War II, and committed the signers to the human rights of its citizens, was the

Accepted Answer

A) Stuttgart Memorandum. 
B) Geneva Agreement. 
C) Helsinki Accords. 
D) Vienna Agreement. 
E) Tashkent Agreement. 
A) Stuttgart Memorandum. 
B) Geneva Agreement. 
C) Helsinki Accords. 
D) Vienna Agreement. 
E) Tashkent Agreement.

Question 10

Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included

Accepted Answer

A) middle class indifference toward his regime because of its refusal to provide them with lucrative government jobs. 
B) peasant enthusiasm to Mao's promises to give land to the peasants. 
C) the refusal of the United States to give even limited military support to the Nationalist armies. 
D) the fact that 85,000 former Japanese occupation troops were fighting in his army and elite Japanese units formed his bodyguard. 
E) Chiang's alliance with Japan during World War II. 
A) middle class indifference toward his regime because of its refusal to provide them with lucrative government jobs. 
B) peasant enthusiasm to Mao's promises to give land to the peasants. 
C) the refusal of the United States to give even limited military support to the Nationalist armies. 
D) the fact that 85,000 former Japanese occupation troops were fighting in his army and elite Japanese units formed his bodyguard. 
E) Chiang's alliance with Japan during World War II.

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
1956 uprisings in Poland and Hungary

Accepted Answer

The 1956 uprisings in Poland and Hungary

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Korean War

Accepted Answer

The Korean War was a conflict that took

Question 13

Which of the following countries became Communist in February of 1948 under Klement Gottwald?

Accepted Answer

A) Romania 
B) Czechoslovakia 
C) Yugoslavia 
D) Hungary 
E) East Germany 
A) Romania 
B) Czechoslovakia 
C) Yugoslavia 
D) Hungary 
E) East Germany

Question 14

In the 1950s and 1960s, the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China

Accepted Answer

A) remained unchanged. 
B) was altered by the Soviet Union's increased interest in increasing world tensions, especially with the militarily dangerous United Nations. 
C) was weakened by Mao Zedong's belief that, after Stalin's death, Mao's status as the most experienced Marxist ruler should make him the leading socialist. 
D) was destroyed by Mao's threat to occupy southeastern Siberia if the Soviet government continued to make, test, and store nuclear weapons there. 
E) improved because of a joint fear of the United States' ambitions in South Asia. 
A) remained unchanged. 
B) was altered by the Soviet Union's increased interest in increasing world tensions, especially with the militarily dangerous United Nations. 
C) was weakened by Mao Zedong's belief that, after Stalin's death, Mao's status as the most experienced Marxist ruler should make him the leading socialist. 
D) was destroyed by Mao's threat to occupy southeastern Siberia if the Soviet government continued to make, test, and store nuclear weapons there. 
E) improved because of a joint fear of the United States' ambitions in South Asia.

Question 15

Nikita Khrushchev promoted a policy of "peaceful coexistence" in 1955. ​

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The first threat of a U. S.-Soviet confrontation took place in

Accepted Answer

A) Estonia 
B) Cuba 
C) Yugoslavia 
D) Czechoslovakia 
E) Iran 
A) Estonia 
B) Cuba 
C) Yugoslavia 
D) Czechoslovakia 
E) Iran

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program

Accepted Answer

The Marshall Plan, also known as the Eur

Question 18

One of the US responses to Communist victory in China was ​

Accepted Answer

A) blaming Roosevelt for promises made at Yalta. 
B) blaming Chiang for the weakness of his regime. 
C) arguing that Soviet forces spread throughout China providing the PLA with weapons. 
D) beginning a rabid anti-Communist hysteria in the US with Sen. McCarthy arguing that there were red agents in the US government. 
E) All of these. 
A) blaming Roosevelt for promises made at Yalta. 
B) blaming Chiang for the weakness of his regime. 
C) arguing that Soviet forces spread throughout China providing the PLA with weapons. 
D) beginning a rabid anti-Communist hysteria in the US with Sen. McCarthy arguing that there were red agents in the US government. 
E) All of these.

Question 19

What were the factors which led to the success of the Marshall Plan? Could such massive economic aid work equally well in other places and other times? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

The success of the Marshall Plan can be

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Nikita Khrushchev and "peaceful coexistence"

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev was a prominent Soviet

Communist China sent Chinese troops to assist Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong in the Second Indochina War.

The program of perestroika was intended to allow more transparency into how the Soviet government worked.

Tito's argument about Yugoslavia being part of the buffer zone between East and West was

Which events made Stalin uneasy about the United States' intentions between 1945 and 1950?

By aiding the Afghanistan resistance to the Soviet Union, the United States helped maintain a Vietnam-like war that kept the Soviets bogged down in its own quagmire.

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh Front

The concept or policy of "equivalence" referred to

The Brezhnev Doctrine

The 1975 accord that recognized all central and eastern European borders that had been established since the end of World War II, and committed the signers to the human rights of its citizens, was the

Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 1956 uprisings in Poland and Hungary

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Korean War

Which of the following countries became Communist in February of 1948 under Klement Gottwald?

In the 1950s and 1960s, the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China

Nikita Khrushchev promoted a policy of "peaceful coexistence" in 1955.

The first threat of a U. S.-Soviet confrontation took place in

Instructions: Identify the following terms. the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program

One of the US responses to Communist victory in China was

What were the factors which led to the success of the Marshall Plan? Could such massive economic aid work equally well in other places and other times? Why or why not?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Nikita Khrushchev and "peaceful coexistence"

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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Exam 13: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Communist China sent Chinese troops to assist Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong in the Second Indochina War.

The program of ​perestroika ​ was intended to allow more transparency into how the Soviet government worked. ​

Tito's argument about Yugoslavia being part of the buffer zone between East and West was ​

Which events made Stalin uneasy about the United States' intentions between 1945 and 1950?

By aiding the Afghanistan resistance to the Soviet Union, the United States helped maintain a Vietnam-like war that kept the Soviets bogged down in its own quagmire.

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh Front

The concept or policy of "equivalence" referred to

The Brezhnev Doctrine

The 1975 accord that recognized all central and eastern European borders that had been established since the end of World War II, and committed the signers to the human rights of its citizens, was the

Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 1956 uprisings in Poland and Hungary

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Korean War

Which of the following countries became Communist in February of 1948 under Klement Gottwald?

In the 1950s and 1960s, the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China

Nikita Khrushchev promoted a policy of "peaceful coexistence" in 1955. ​

The first threat of a U. S.-Soviet confrontation took place in

Instructions: Identify the following terms. the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program

One of the US responses to Communist victory in China was ​

What were the factors which led to the success of the Marshall Plan? Could such massive economic aid work equally well in other places and other times? Why or why not?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Nikita Khrushchev and "peaceful coexistence"

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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The program of perestroika was intended to allow more transparency into how the Soviet government worked.

Tito's argument about Yugoslavia being part of the buffer zone between East and West was

Nikita Khrushchev promoted a policy of "peaceful coexistence" in 1955.

One of the US responses to Communist victory in China was