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Chapter 20: Cold War and Postwar Changes

Cold War and Postwar Changes

1
The Cold War began in a dispute over _____.
A)nuclear weapons
B)control of Berlin
C)control of Eastern Europe
D)communism in Greece
2
The possibility of Soviet expansion in _____ prompted President Truman to establish the Truman Doctrine.
A)Greece and Turkey
B)Portugal and Greece
C)Belgium and the Netherlands
D)the Netherlands and Belgium
3
As a response to a new Western military alliance, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states formed _____.
A)SEATO
B)CENTO
C)NATO
D)the Warsaw Pact
4
The Cuban missile crisis was resolved when _____.
A)Castro confronted Kennedy and Khrushchev
B)the United States threatened to invade Cuba
C)the Soviets threatened the United States with nuclear war
D)Kennedy and Khrushchev arrived at a compromise
5
Khrushchev was forced out of office closely following _____.
A)his attempts to increase agricultural output east of the Ural Mountains failed
B)the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
C)his decision place Soviet missiles in Cuba
D)de-Stalinization
6
In 1968 Soviet troops intervened in _____ after Alexander Dubček began to reform government policies.
A)Poland
B)Czechoslovakia
C)Hungary
D)Yugoslavia
7
The Rome Treaty created _____.
A)NATO
B)the Warsaw Pact
C)the European Economic Community
D)the Berlin Wall
8
Which U.S. president signed civil rights legislation to end segregation and discrimination in the workplace and all public places?
A)Lyndon B. Johnson
B)John F. Kennedy
C)Harry S. Truman
D)Franklin D. Roosevelt
9
A consumer society emerged in the West largely because _____.
A)the middle class grew
B)real wages increased
C)the economy had more heavy industry
D)the number of industrial workers grew
10
In which of the following countries in Europe did women gain the right to vote in the 1940s?
A)Germany and France
B)Italy and Germany
C)France and Canada
D)France and Italy
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