World history/WHME103/Effects of Cold War/Review

Global Effects of the Cold War Multiple Choice Review Quiz

Complete the following quiz to review your knowledge from this learning pathway. This quiz will help students undertaking this course for credit to prepare for their test.

• The Soviet Union was greatly helped in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons after World War Two by:
  • spies inside the American nuclear program
    • Correct. Well done!
  • obtaining secret documents from the Nazi program to develop nuclear weapons
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the defection of a top US nuclear scientist to the Soviet Union
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • all of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• What sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis?
  • The confession of a captured Cuban soldier that the Soviet Union had nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at major US cities
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The confession of a Cuban defector that the Soviet Union had nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at major US cities
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The announcement by Soviet President Khrushchev of plans to locate nuclear missiles in Cuba
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The discovery by a US spy plane of nuclear missile sites in Cuba
    • Correct. Well done!
• 'Star Wars' was the nickname given to a project proposed by US President Reagan to:
  • create missiles that could be launched from space
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • create an anti-missile system based in space
    • Correct. Well done!
  • create space-based nuclear weapons
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • none of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• The year 1968 is often called 'the year of the barricades' due to:
  • the construction of the Berlin Wall
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on revolutionary politics in the West in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the famous John Lennon song
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on revolutionary politics in the West in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the many protests that occurred
    • Correct. Well done!
  • none of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on revolutionary politics in the West in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.

Global Effects of the Cold War True/False Review Quiz

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:

• Three Mile Island is best known for the discovery of nuclear missile sites there, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• MAD is an acronym for 'Mutually Assured Detonation'.
  • True
    • Incorrect. It is 'Mutually Assured Destruction'.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• Predecessors of the European Union include the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the European Union in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer. .
• The 'Great Leap Forward' occurred from 1968-72.
  • True
    • Incorrect. The Great Leap Forward occurred from 1958-62.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• During the Great Leap Forward, approximately one million Chinese died.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Unfortunately the death toll was much, much higher - at least 45 million died during this terrible event. Review the activities on China in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Unfortunately the death toll was much, much higher - at least 45 million died during this terrible event.