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Cold War Test Study Guide
1. Define the following and label which country (USSR, US, or Both) used which system:
Communism
Capitalism
Democracy
Theory of Deterrence
Dictatorship
Domino Theory
2. What were the two military alliances established during the Cold War? Could you tell by looking at a
map, which countries were part of which alliance? Look at the map on your note guide.
3. Put the events in the correct chronological order.
Creation of the Berlin Wall
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Yalta Conference
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
4. What was the goal of the Marshall Plan? What US president was its leading supporter?
5. What is the Theory of Deterrence? Name three characteristics.
Vietnam War
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6. What country came to aid (support) of North Korea, and who was their leader?
7.
What country came to aid (support) South Korea, and who lead the troops from this country?
8. What line of latitude (parallel) divided North and South Korea?
9. Why did the United States get involved in the Korean War? (explain both the direct and indirect reason)
10. How did the Korean War end?
11. Why was the Berlin Wall built?
12. Identify the major leaders of each country during the Cuban Missile Crisis:
USA
USSR
13. What did the Soviet Union do in Cuba to cause a “crisis”?
14. Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis considered a “crisis” in the USA?
15. How many miles is Cuba from the United States?
16. What was President Kennedy’s response to nuclear missiles in Cuba?
17. How did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?
Cuba
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18. Why did the United States get involved with the Vietnam War?
19. What leader rose to power in North Vietnam in 1950 and what other country supported North Vietnam?
20. What other country supported South Vietnam?
21. Describe both events.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
22. Which event of the Vietnam War was seen as the beginning of the end of the war?
23. What line of latitude (parallel) divided Vietnam?
24. What is Vietnamization?
25. What was the end results of the Vietnam War?
1973 1975 –
26. Describe the American attitude toward the Vietnam War.
27. What year did the Berlin Wall fall? What country did this reunite?
28. What happened to the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War?
29. When the Soviet Union collapsed, what country was left as the sole superpower?