Study Guide—Cold War Test
World History
Mr. Kremer
Name ___________________________
1. The Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis was ________________________.
2. The U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism was ________________________.
3. The ________________ Doctrine, part of the plan to stop communism, provided aid to
Turkey and Greece, and support for countries that rejected communism.
4. The ___________________________ provided aid to Western European countries after
WWII, and was part of the containment policy.
5. The _____________________, separating free Western Europe from communist East Europe,
was not a physical structure.
6. The Korean War began in the year ___________________.
7. ___________________ held U.S. hostages for 444 days.
8. The United Nations supported and fought with ____________ Korea in the Korean War.
9. The _________________ theory held that if one nation fell to communism, others would
quickly follow.
10. __________________ was the policy of reducing Cold War tensions.
11. President Nixon’s plan for withdrawal from Vietnam, in which South Vietnamese troops
would take over combat, was called _____________________________.
12. The U.S. fought with ________________ Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
13. The treaty organization that included/was led by the Soviet Union was the
______________________________.
14. The treaty organization that included/was led by the U.S. was ________________.
15. U.S. options for ending the Cuban Missile Crisis included resolving diplomatically, forming
a _________________________________ and airstrikes and invasion of
________________________.
16. Much of the fighting in Korea went back and forth over the _______ parallel, the eventual
dividing line.
17. ____________________________ were communist guerrilla fighters in the Vietnam War.
18. _____________________________ was the policy of willingness to go to the edge of war,
including nuclear war.
19. The ____________________________ invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
20. The __________________________ came to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s, and
allowed Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists to train in Afghanistan.
21. The ________________ treaties provided for limits on nuclear weapons.
22. The Cuban Missile Crisis pitted the U.S. against the _________________________.
23. ______________________________ led the communists to victory over the
________________________________ in China’s civil war.
24. The _____________________ were supported by the U.S. in China’s civil war and after it
ended, when that group moved to the island of ___________________________.
25. The ____________________________ led the Cultural Revolution in China.
26. The government in communist China created large farms called ________________ as part
of the Great Leap Forward.
27. The term for purging the USSR of Stalin’s memory was ______________________.
28. The _______________________ was the U.S. led response to the Soviet blockade of the
city of ____________________________.
29. This country was the first in space and the first to send a man into space
______________________________.
30. ____________ World nations were areas of competition for the superpowers.
31. The _________________________ invasion was a failed, U.S. backed, attempted invasion
of Cuba by Cuban exiles.
32. The U.S. aided dictators around the world as long as they were anti-___________________.
33. ___________________________ led the Vietnamese nationalist group, and the communists
preceding and during the Vietnam war.
34. Put the following Cold War events in order (number them from 1-6, 1 being first):
_______ Cuban Missile Crisis
_______ Korean War
_______ Détente
_______ Vietnam War (U.S. involvement date)
_______ Iran hostage crisis
_______ Marshall Plan