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The Era of the Cold War and the Collapse of Empires
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Multiple Choice Quiz



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1. The first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was:

A)

a. Apollo XI

B)

b. Soyuz III

C)

c. Sputnik I

D)

d. Gemini

2

2. This invention, in 1947, revolutionized global radio communications:

A)

a. Microchip

B)

b. Transistor

C)

c. Capacitor

D)

d. Stereo

3

3. The worse nuclear power plant accident occurred here in 1986:

A)

a. Three Mile Island

B)

b. Bhopal

C)

c. Alaska

D)

d. Chernobyl

4

4. This was created in the aftermath of the Second World War specifically to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers:

A)

a. GATT

B)

b. IMF

C)

c. World Bank

D)

d. OPEC

5

5. This development was of particular importance to the advancement of women's position in western society after the Second World War:

A)

a. The Equal Rights Amendment

B)

b. The contraceptive pill

C)

c. The right to vote

D)

d. The automatic dishwasher

6

6. Postwar politics in Western Europe during the Cold War era were largely:

A)

a. Violent and unpredictable

B)

b. Characterized by rapid swings from right to left

C)

c. Stable and pragmatic

D)

d. Unchanged from the interwar years

7

7. The movement created to resist superpower imperialism was the:

A)

a. Feminist movement

B)

b. Civil Rights movement

C)

c. Libertarian movement

D)

d. Nonaligned movement

8

8. By 1987 military spending of all of the world's nations combined totaled $1.8 million every:

A)

a. Hour

B)

b. Minute

C)

c. Day

D)

d. Week

9

9. Traditional religious beliefs were expressed in the writings of:

A)

a. Simone de Beauvoir

B)

b. Viktor Erofeyev

C)

c. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

D)

d. Jean Paul Sartre

10

10. The Truman Doctrine was designed initially to prevent the spread of communism to:

A)

a. Turkey and Greece

B)

b. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

C)

c. France and Britain

D)

d. Rumania and Bulgaria

11

11. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance among Eastern bloc nations designed to offset the power of:

A)

a. The IMF

B)

b. The United Nations

C)

c. COMECON

D)

d. NATO

12

12. This court decision gave a major boost to the movement against racial segregation:

A)

a. Roe v. Wade

B)

b. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

C)

c. "One man, one vote"

D)

d. Plessy v. Ferguson

13

13. The campaign to export Fidel Castro's revolution throughout Latin America was spearheaded by:

A)

a. Juan Peron

B)

b. Jacobo Arbenz

C)

c. Ernesto "Che" Guevara

D)

d. Anastasio Somoza

14

14. "Backyard Furnaces" were the centerpiece of this modernization plan by Mao Zedong:

A)

a. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

B)

b. The First Five-Year Pan

C)

c. The Hundred Flowers Campaign

D)

d. The Great Leap Forward

15

15. As the prime minister of postindependence India he fought a constant battle against high population growth:

A)

a. Mohandas Gandhi

B)

b. Jawaharlal Nehru

C)

c. Mohammed Ali Jinnah

D)

d. Liaquat Ali Khan

16

16. The Biafran War in this African nation was symbolic of the ethnic, religious, and linguistic differences that challenged many newly independent African nations:

A)

a. Ghana

B)

b. Zaire

C)

c. Nigeria

D)

d. South Africa

17

17. Violence against apartheid intensified after this 1960 incident in South Africa:

A)

a. Creation of Bantustans

B)

b. Sharpeville

C)

c. Assassination of Henrik Verwoerd

D)

d. Population Registration Act

18

18. This grass roots movement symbolizes Palestinian hostility to Israeli military control in the Occupied Territories:

A)

a. "Iron Fist Policy"

B)

b. Camp David Accords

C)

c. PLO

D)

d. Intifada

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19. The "spirit of détente" led to greatly improved relations between the U.S. and this Communist nation in the 1970s:

A)

a. Czechoslovakia

B)

b. Hungary

C)

c. Cuba

D)

d. China

20

20. Declining world prices for copper and a CIA campaign to "destabilize" the government led to a military takeover of the Chilean government of:

A)

a. Salvador Allende

B)

b. Augusto Pinochet

C)

c. Daniel Ortega

D)

d. Manuel Noriega

21

21. This Indian leader was assassinated by disgruntled Sikh bodyguards:

A)

a. Rajiv Gandhi

B)

b. Mohandas Gandhi

C)

c. Indira Gandhi

D)

d. Jawaharlal Nehru

22

22. This organization was created to coordinate economic policies and encourage cooperation among Southeast Asian nations:

A)

a. SEATO

B)

b. ASEAN

C)

c. ANZUS

D)

d. CENTO

23

23. He opened negotiations with the African National Congress in the 1990s:

A)

a. Nelson Mandela

B)

b. P. W. Botha

C)

c. Gatsha Buthelezi

D)

d. F. W. de Klerk

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24. "A president without a country," this man resigned on December 25, 1991:

A)

a. Boris Yeltsin

B)

b. Vladimir Putin

C)

c. Mikhail Gorbachev

D)

d. Andrei Rhyzkov





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