Cold War - Multiple Choice Test

Before 1959, Cuba
1. was a free country
2. was a Communist country
3. had a pro-Soviet government
4. was an American ally
The Warsaw Pact
1. was a NATO partner
2. was a pact between the Soviet Union and Poland
3. was a military organisation in eastern Europe
4. was the border between free and Communist Europe
Before the United States entered the Vietnam War
1. the Soviet Union occupied the country
2. France was the colonial power
3. China controlled most of North Vietnam
4. South Vietnam was controlled by the Communists
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union
1. fought against each other
2. were involved in an arms race
3. fought with Germany
4. were allies
In the space race
1. the two superpowers built rockets together
2. both superpowers wanted to show that they were superior
3. the US and the Soviet Union worked together in space
4. the Soviets were the first to land a man on the moon
At the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet Union
1. tried to cut off supplies to West Berlin
2. constructed the Berlin Wall
3. took over the Allied part of Berlin
4. started airlifting food and medicine to East Berlin
East Germany and the Soviet Union built a wall in Berlin
1. to stop West Germans from buying cheaper products in the East
2. to stop Communism from spreading across Europe
3. to stop East Berliners from escaping to the West
4. to stop products from getting into East Berlin
The Cold War ended
1. when Americans won the space race
2. when the number of nuclear weapons was limited
3. when the Berlin Wall was torn down
4. when the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan
The Cold War started
1. at the end of World War II
2. before World War II
3. when the Soviet Union was founded
4. during the Cuba crisis
In the 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev
1. freed Communist states in Eastern Europe
2. installed a Soviet-friendly government in Cuba
3. wanted to open up the Soviet Union to the west
4. ended the Berlin conflict
After World War II, the Soviet Union
1. made sure that Eastern European countries stayed free
2. set up Communist governments in Eastern Europe
3. and the USA founded NATO
4. helped the United States send supplies to Berlin
Mao Zedong
1. was a military leader in the Korean war
2. fought in a war against the Soviet Union
3. was a nationalist who founded Taiwan
4. was the first Communist leader of China

Cold War - Multiple Choice Test

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