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Mod. 3B


Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

 

 1. 
"a plan for political pressure with the help of dollars...for interference in the affairs of other countries."
-A Soviet newspaper

The reference is to:
A.
Marshall Aid.
B.
the United Nations.
C.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization.)
D.
COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance).
 

 2. 
According to Khrushchev, which development during the Stalinist era had led to serious abuses of power?
A.
the cult of personality
B.
increased trade with the West
C.
formation of the Warsaw Pact
D.
an ideological split with China
 

 3. 
The Second World War had a similar impact on Germany and Korea in that both nations:
A.
became politically divided.
B.
fought wars of re-unification.
C.
were liberated from Communism.
D.
became members of either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.
 

 4. 
Of the following, the most deliberate example of the policy of 'brinkmanship' during the Cold War occurred in the:
A.
Suez Crisis.
B.
Six-Day War.
C.
Hungarian Uprising.
D.
Cuban Missile Crisis.
 

 5. 
The policy used to justify American involvement in Cuba's affairs was the:
A.
Monroe Doctrine.
B.
Open Door Policy.
C.
Eisenhower Doctrine.
D.
Non-alignment Policy.
 

 6. 
The main reason for U.S. hostility toward Castro’s Cuba in 1960 was the
A.
overthrow of a corrupt dictatorship.
B.
introduction of democratic reforms.
C.
nationalizing of U.S. companies in Cuba.
D.
expulsion of U.S. forces from Guantanamo Bay.
 

 7. 
The main similarity between Mao Tse-Tung and Deng Xiao Ping was their mutual
A.
hostility to private enterprise.
B.
desire to embrace western culture.
C.
dislike of multi-party democracy.
D.
isolation from western leaders.
 

 8. 
We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws.
-Martin Luther King

During the 1950s in the southern United States, the “evil laws” included
A.
segregated schools.
B.
training blacks for menial jobs.
C.
segregation in the armed forces.
D.
separate but equal voter registrations for blacks.
 

 9. 
After 1948, the only European communist state outside the Soviet bloc was
A.
A.
Poland.
B.
Hungary.
C.
Yugoslavia.
D.
Czechoslovakia.
 

 10. 
The American response to the Berlin Blockade of 1948 - 49 demonstrates the policy of:
A.
detente.
B.
co-existence.
C.
containment.
D.
isolationism.
 

 11. 
At the Yalta Conference, it was agreed that
A.
the Western Powers would strip Germany of all industrial plants.
B.
Germany would be permanently divided into two separate countries.
C.
the U.S.S.R. would establish communist governments in Eastern Europe.
D.
the U.S.S.R. would declare war on Japan three months after victory in Europe.
 

 12. 
The U.S.S.R. invaded Hungary in 1956 because the Hungarian government:
A.
held free elections.
B.
refused to join COMECON.
C.
included non-communists in the government.
D.
threatened to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact.
 

 13. 
Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign gained momentum as a result of the
A.
success of the Berlin Airlift.
B.
 communist victory in China.
C.
formation of the Warsaw Pact.
D.
Soviet boycott of the Paris Summit meeting.
 

 14. 
In the 1960s, mass protest movements occurred in the U.S.A. concerning all of the following
issues EXCEPT the:
A.
universal draft system.
B.
 American commitment to Israel.
C.
civil rights movement for blacks.
D.
American involvement in Vietnam.
 

 15. 
The scale of U.S. troop participation in the war in Vietnam was most sharply escalated by President:
A.
Ford.
B.
Nixon.
C.
Johnson.
D.
Kennedy.
 

 16. 
All of the following were causes of the Sino-Soviet split except
A.
border disputes in the Far East.
B.
differences over Marxist ideology.
C.
rivalry for leadership of the third world.
D.
opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
 

 17. 
Stalin created a buffer zone between the U.S.S.R. and Western Europe at the end of the Second World War in order to:
A.
promote Pan-Slavism.
B.
increase Soviet security.
C.
develop the economies of Eastern Europe.
D.
create an Eastern European Economic
Union.
 

 18. 
The history of which three countries has been used to support the 'domino theory'?
A.
China, Japan, Vietnam 
B.
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
C.
Thailand, Burma, Cambodia
D.
Singapore, South Korea, Laos
 

 19. 
All of the following events increased fear of communism in the U.S.A. except the
A.
victory of the communists in China.
B.
involvement of China in the Korean war.
C.
testing of an atomic bomb by the U.S.S.R.
D.
re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power.
 

 20. 
Stalin believed that the U.S.S.R. had a special claim to West Berlin because it
A.
had cultural ties to the Soviet Union.
B.
had rejected Western style democracy.
C.
was not important to the Western allies.
D.
lay within the Soviet zone of Germany.
 

 21. 
The U.S.S.R.'s boycott of the Security Council enabled the United Nations to intervene militarily in:
A.
 Cuba.
B.
Egypt.
C.
South Korea.
D.
South Vietnam.
 

 22. 
The 1954 Geneva Agreement between France and the Vietminh nationalists

A.
partitioned Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
B.
unified Vietnam under the rule of Ho Chi Minh.
C.
called on the U.S.A. to provide aid to both sides.
D.
asked that the United Nations peacekeeping troops be sent to Vietnam.
 

 23. 
An immediate outcome of the Berlin Blockade was the creation of:
A.
NATO.
B.
the EEC.
C.
Cominform.
D.
the Warsaw Pact.
 

 24. 
All of the following resulted from the Cuban Missile Crisis except:
A.
a partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
B.
increased Cuban dependence on the U.S.S.R.
C.
a "hot line" between Washington and Moscow.
D.
improved relations between the U.S.A. and Cuba
 

 25. 
The act by the West which finally provoked the U.S.S.R. into blockading West Berlin was
A.
the introduction of a new currency into West Berlin.
B.
the uniting of the British, American and French zones.
C.
the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany.
D.
the inclusion of West Germany in the Organization for European Economic Cooperation.
 



 
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