- Due Mar 21 at 11:59pm
- Points 5
- Questions 22
- Time Limit None
- Allowed Attempts 2
Score for this attempt: 3.86 out of 5
Submitted Mar 21 at 10:26pm
This attempt took 8 minutes.
Question 1
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What organization was formed after World War II to replace the League of Nations formed after World War I?
Correct!
United Nations (UN)
Warsaw Pact
NATO
SEATO
Baghdad Pact (Central Treaty Organization, or CTO)
Question 2
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What eastern bloc alliance was formed in 1955 to buffer NATO?
Containment
SEATO
Sputnik
NATO
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Warsaw Pact
Question 3
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To achieve nuclear and military parity with the west, all of the following were achieved by the Soviet Union between 1949 and 1957 EXCEPT
testing of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb.
launching of the first satellite Sputnik I.
testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb.
development of ICBMs, or Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
Correct!
alliance with France, which became a nuclear club member in 1950.
Question 4
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What country and its divisions became the first contested center of the Cold War?
Korea
You Answered
Poland
Argentina
Spain
Correct Answer
Germany
Question 5
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All of the following countries were members of the NATO alliance EXCEPT
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East Germany.
France.
Canada.
Portugal.
Turkey.
Question 6
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What process led to colonial independence but continued dependence on either the communist or democratic camps in the Cold War?
Nuclear club membership
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Decolonization
Tribalism
Third worlding
“Friendship treaties”
Question 7
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What western bloc alliance was formed in 1949 to contain the U.S.S.R.?
Containment
Sputnik
SEATO
Correct!
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Question 8
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All of the following were characteristics of Africa, decolonization, and the Cold War EXCEPT
independent states included Kongo, Ghana, and Kenya.
You Answered
African independence leaders, like those in Asia, often had Western educations.
African leaders pushed for Pan-African identities.
Europeans were slow to let go of African colonies.
Correct Answer
France peacefully moved Algeria toward independence.
Question 9
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What Soviet leader emerged as the successor to Stalin and expanded Soviet influence around the globe?
Leon Trotsky
Leonid Brezhnev
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bukharin
Yuri Andopov
Question 10
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What city became the focal point of a blockade by the Soviets until 1949?
Seoul
Hiroshima
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Berlin
Istanbul
Warsaw
Question 11
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What term did Winston Churchill use to describe the division of eastern and western Europe?
Warsaw Pact
Cold War
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Iron Curtain
anti-Christian
Blocs
Question 12
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Eastern bloc uprisings and resistance to Soviet incursions were controlled in all of the following areas EXCEPT
Correct Answer
Yugoslavia.
Prague.
Berlin.
Budapest.
You Answered
East Germany.
Question 13
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The European Economic Community-the Common Market-was established in ________
1968.
1948.
1978.
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1957.
1953.
Question 14
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The chief mechanism for administering the Marshall Plan was
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the Office of European Economic Cooperation.
the Hoot-Smalley tariff.
the Office of International Aid.
NATO.
the Warsaw Pact.
Question 15
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Whose economic theories were widely applied in postwar Europe?
Ayn Rand
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John Maynard Keynes
Adam Smith
Branislaw Malinowski Yamoto
Milton Friedman
Question 16
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After the death of Stalin in 1953, what leader denounced Stalin’s rule and claimed socialist production was superior to capitalist production?
Ho Chi Minh
Brezhnev
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Khrushchev
Tito
Fidel Castro
Question 17
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Which of the following was NOT included in the Marshall Plan (European Recovery Act)?
The Marshall Plan generally supported the Truman Doctrine of “support for free people.”
It required recipient states to break down trade barriers.
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It was closed at first to the U.S.S.R. and its allies.
It required cooperation from the recipient states.
It was open to European nations that wanted to participate.
Question 18
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Eastern European nations didn’t participate in the Marshall Plan because
they were prohibited by the United States from taking part.
communist economies had no markets, production, or consumption.
they did not need economic reconstruction.
they individually voted not to take part.
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the Soviets opposed the plan.
Question 19
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Lacking the capital to finance recovery, the Soviet Union
abandoned its centrally planned economy in favor of a free market.
sought aid from the Marshall Plan and trade with emerging Japan and China.
Correct Answer
extracted economic resources from from eastern and central Europe.
wanted massive aid from western Europe.
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sought to divest itself of territories seized during the war and its aftermath.
Question 20
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Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet devised the plan
to provide for a common market in food stuffs.
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to pool all French and German coal and steel resources.
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to remove all tariff barriers to French and German wines.
to establish an international sports federation.
to monopolize EEC production between France and Germany.
Question 21
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American economic aid to Europe after World War II was accompanied by
an end to cooperation with western Europe.
free use of leftover military equipment from World War II.
diminished public services.
the absence of nationalization.
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increased European regulation and state planning.
Quiz Score: 3.86 out of 5