Cold War and Vietnam “Pre-Final Exam”
Directions: Read each question carefully and write your answers on a separate piece of
paper. DO NOT WRITE ON THIS EXAM!!!
______ 1. Joseph Stalin broke a promise to let Eastern Europe become a democracy at
__________________ conference.
A. Yalta
B. Potsdam
C. Versailles
D. Paris
______ 2. The ____________________ lasted from 1945 to 1989.
A. World War I
B. World War II
C. Cold War
D. Vietnam War.
______ 3. The line that separated communism and democracy is known as the
________________.
A. Iron Curtain
B. Berlin Wall
C. Great Wall
D. No Man’s Land
_____ 4. The ________________________ provided money and military assistance to
countries who were threatened by the Soviet Union.
A. Marshall Plan
B. Patton Preamble
C. Truman Doctrine
D. Berlin Airlift
______ 5. The United States provided $13 billion dollars to Eastern European countries
in the ________________________.
A. Marshall Plan
B. Patton Preamble
C. Truman Doctrine
D. Berlin Airlift
_______ 6. The Soviet Union launched their first ______________ in 1949.
A. Missile
B. Submarine
C. Aircraft Carrier
D. Atomic Bomb
______ 7. The ______________________ is very similar to the League of Nations.
A. United Nations
B. NAFTA
C. Satellite Nations
D. NATO
_____ 8. ____________________ was the idea to stop the spread of communism.
A. Berlin Blockade
B. Quarantine
C. Blockade
D. Containment
_____ 9. The Soviet Union began the _____________________ to stop supplies from
arriving into certain areas of Germany.
A. Quarantine
B. Berlin Blockade
C. British Blockade
D. Berlin Airlift
_____ 10. The United States helped get supplies to parts of Germany by implementing
the ______________________.
A. Quarantine
B. Berlin Blockade
C. British Blockade
D. Berlin Airlift
______ 11. When France left Vietnam, _____________________ began to fight the
communist Vietnamese.
A. England
B. United States
C. France
D. China
_______ 12. The United States fear of communism spreading from one side of the world
to the other was known as ___________________.
A. Tic-Tac-Toe Theory
B. Checkers Theory
C. Domino Theory
D. Monopoly Theory
______ 13. Vietnam was split into North and South at the ___________________.
A. 5th Parallel
B. 17th Parallel
C. 23rd Parallel
D. 30th Parallel
______ 14. The North Vietnamese fired on America in the _________________.
A. Gulf of Tonkin
B. Caspian Sea
C. Gulf of Mexico
D. Black Sea
______ 15. As a result of the attack in the previous question the United States responded
with the ____________________ which allowed the President to protect
America against further attacks and possibly began a war with Vietnam.
A. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
B. Caspian Sea Resolution
C. Mexico Gulf Resolution D. Black Sea Resolution
_______ 16. Missiles were being put in _________________ which made the United
States very nervous.
A. México
B. Cuba
C. Canada
D. Dominican Republic
_______ 17. ___________________ is the name given to the situation where weapons
were being put on this Island (from number 17).
A. Rolling Thunder
B. Cuban Missile Crisis
C. Cuban Crisis
D. Cold War
_______ 18. ____________ was the name given to the process to stop weapons from
arriving so close to the United States.
A. Blockade
B. Quarantine
C. Stoppage
D. Bombardment
_______ 19. The Crisis lasted for ___________ days.
A. 6
B. 11
C. 13
D. 16
______ 20. The Soviet Union promised to remove missiles from Cuba if the U.S would
_________________.
A. Not invade Cuba
B. Stop the blockade
C. Remove weapons from China
D. Leave Europe
_______ 21. The harder you work the more money you will make in a
_______________ system.
A. Capitalist
B. Communist
C. Socialist
D. Dictatorship
______ 22. Germany was originally split into ___________ zones after World War II.
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
______ 23. The eight week bombing mission in North Vietnam was known as
__________________.
A. Tonkin Attack
B. Quarantine
C. Bombardment
D. Rolling Thunder
______24. _____________________was a 3 day music festival which protested the
Vietnam War.
A. Amherst
B. Lollapalooza
C. Woodstock
D. Oz Fest
______ 25. National Guard was criticized when they opened fire on a group of student’s
protesting the war in Vietnam, which killed 4 at ___________________.
A. Kent State
B. Syracuse
C. Ball State
D. Cal State