5 Written Questions

1. the Soviet Union's plan to allow more political freedom during the 1980's
2. One thousand more times more powerful than the atomic bomb. Truman ordered the development of it to outpace the Soviets.
3. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
4. a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe in order to stop communism
5. 22 Nazi leaders were tried for war crime and found legally responsible for their actions during wartime

5 Matching Questions

1. Bay of Pigs
2. perestroika
3. Fidel Castro
4. Mikhail Gorbachev
5. ethnic cleansing

1. a Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of the Communist government in the Soviet Union
2. b Gorbachev's plan to open up the Soviet Union to a market economy
3. c genocide of a certain ethnic group
4. d Communist leader of Cuba
5. e Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. (1991) War in which the US drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
   1. Cold War
   2. Berlin Airlift
   3. Persian Gulf War
   4. Marshall Plan
2. Islamist terrorist organization that launched a series of attacks against U.S.
   1. Cold War
   2. Sputnik
   3. NATO
   4. al Qaeda
3. US demanded soviets remove their newly installed nuclear missles from Cuba
   1. Bay of Pigs
   2. Cuban Missle Crisis
   3. Nuremberg Trials
   4. Boris Yeltsin
4. An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
   1. Marshall Plan
   2. Containment
   3. Bay of Pigs
   4. Warsaw Pact
5. A conflict between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
   1. Sputnik
   2. al Qaeda
   3. NATO
   4. Cold War

5 True/False Questions

1. NATO → the Soviet Union's plan to allow more political freedom during the 1980's

   True        False

2. Sputnik → The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US.

   True        False

3. detente → relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China

   True        False

4. Boris Yeltsin → first elected president of Russia in 1991 after fall of the soviet union.

   True        False

5. Osama bin Laden → the policy designed to keep the Soviet Union from expanding its power

   True        False