Monday, May 7, 2012

Goal: Review for the unit test by participating in a class review game

In-class: Cold War Review

Warm-up: What does NATO stand for?

Homework: Study for Cold War Test tomorrow. Notes due tomorrow. Research outline/rough draft due Friday!!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Goal: Demonstrate your knowledge of the Cold War on the unit test

In-class: Cold War Unit Test

Warm-up: What was your favorite part of this unit and why?

Homework: Research paper outline/rough draft due Friday!

17.1 Cold War Superpowers Face Off

17.2 Communists Take Power in China

17.3 Wars in Korea and Vietnam

17.4 The Cold War Divides the World

17.5 The Cold War Thaws

18 Gallery Walk Notes

19.1 Democracy Case Study: Latin American Countries 19.2 The Challenge of Democracy in Africa

19.4 Changes in Central and Eastern Europe

19.4 China Reaction and Reform

Cold War Test Review!!!

Ms. Bielefeld

Spring 2012

The first unmanned satellite that was

launched by the USSR was called…A. Thor

B. Halo

C. Sputnik

D. Explorer I

Who was the South African president

that freed Mandela & ended apartheid?

A. Mobutu Sese Seko

B. F. W. de Klerk

C. Jawaharlal Nehru

D. Jomo Kenyatta

President Nixon visited the USSR and

signed this treaty to limit nuclear

weapons.A. Prague Spring

B. Warsaw Pact

C. Strategic Defense

D. SALT I

Which U.S. President proposed a space-

based missile defense program called STAR

WARS?A. John F. Kennedy

B. Richard Nixon

C. Ronald Reagan

D. Jimmy Carter

Who was the leader during the Cuban

Revolution?

A. Fidel Castro

B. Hugo Chavez

C. Manuel Noriega

D. Daniel Orega

Which religious leader encouraged

Muslims to overthrow the secular gov’t in

Iran?A. Shah Pahlavi

B. Nikita Khrushchev

C. Anastasio Zomoza

D. Ayatollah Khomeini

Who was the president of Mexico that

ended 71 years of PRI rule?

A. Juan Peron

B. Miguel de la Madrid

C. Ernesto Zedillo

D. Vicente Fox

What does NATO stand for?

A. North American Trade Organization

B. Nuclear Awareness Treaty Organization

C. Native American Trade Organization

D. North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Which was NOT one of the struggles Nigeria

faced while trying to develop a democracy?

A. Policies separating whites and blacks were embedded in the government.

B. The military overthrew the civilian government.

C. The country of Biafra was created for a brief time.

D. There was a civil war between the various ethnic groups.

Who was the leader of the Polish labor

union, national hero, and president?

A. Leonid Brezhnev

B. Vladimir Putin

C. Lech Walesa

D. Slobodan Milosevic

Yeltsin’s plan to reform Russia, which

resulted in high unemployment & inflation

was called…A. Demokratizatsia

B. Perestroika

C. Shock therapy

D. Glasnost

What was the southern Russia region that was in a

long conflict with the Russian Gov’t over

independence?A. Mordovia

B. Chechnya

C. Kosovo

D. Volgograd

What was the major uprising in China who

wanted to rid of intellectual and artistic activity?

A. Cultural Revolution

B. Great Leap Forward

C. Four Modernizations

D. Societal Reunification

Who led the anti-Communist gov’t in

South Vietnam?

A. Deng Xiaping

B. Ho Chi Minh

C. Douglas MacArthur

D. Ngo Dinh Diem

Who was the Communist group that took

over Cambodia and killed 2 million

people?A. Vietminh

B. Vietcong

C. Khmer Rouge

D. Red Army

Deng’s set of goals for china to improve

agriculture, industry, defense, and science was

called…A. Cultural Revolution

B. Four Modernizations

C. Great Leap Forward

D. Societal Revolution

What was the Serbian province of ethnic Albanians

that was involved in major conflict in the late

1990s?A. Volgograd

B. Kosovo

C. Chechnya

D. Mordovia

Who was the Serbian leader that was charged with crimes

against humanity for the killing in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo?

A. Vladimir Putin

B. Lech Walesa

C. Leonid Brezhnev

D. Slobodan Milosevic

The Serbian attempt to rid Bosnia of its Muslim

population was called...

A. Apartheid

B. Partition

C. Ethnic cleansing

D. Martial law

The term given to the division of India into

separate Hindu and Muslim nations is

A. Partition

B. Martial Law

C. Intifada

D. Apartheid

The statement from the British to Jewish leaders to

create a Jewish homeland in Palestine was called the

A. Camp David Accords

B. Yom Kippur Agreement

C. Balfour Declaration

D. Oslo Peace Accords

Mobutu Sese Seko changed the name of the

Congo to

A. Zaire

B. Rwanda

C. Algeria

D. Ghana

The movement to celebrate African heritage

and develop self-pride was called the

A. Zionist Movement

B. Mobutu Movement

C. Bantu Movement

D. Negritude Movement

The incident in Aug. 1964 when the N.

Vietnamese torpedoed U.S. ships took place in

the…A. Mekong Delta

B. South China Sea

C. Gulf of Tonkin

D. Gulf of Thailand

The Communist leader that defeated the

French in Vietnam and led the North in the war

was…A. Ngo Dinh Diem

B. Ho Chi Minh

C. Douglas MacArthur

D. Deng Xiaoping

Which of the following did NOT happen at the

end of the Vietnam War?

A. All Vietnamese were reeducated in Communist thought

B. About 1.5 million people fled Vietnam and settled in other countries.

C. Saigon was captured by Communist forces and renamed Ho Chi Minh city.

D. Vietnam remained divided into Communist north and democratic south

Where was the location of the pro-democracy

student protest that ended in a massacre in

1989?A. Red Square

B. The Winter Palace

C. The Imperial Palace

D. Tiananmen Square

Gorbachev’s economic “restructuring” of the

USSR to lessen gov’t control was called

A. Glasnost

B. Perestroika

C. Demokratizatsia

D. Shock therapy

Which of the following is NOT true

about the Cuban Missile Crisis?

A. It was the closest the world got to nuclear war.

B. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the U.S. president during the crisis.

C. Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles if the U.S. didn’t invade Cuba.

D. The Soviets had secretly placed 42 missiles in Cuba.

What is the business center that was a former

British colony and now controlled by China?

A. Taipei

B. Shanghai

C. Hong Kong

D. Nanking

Which is NOT true about the Great Leap

Forward?

A. It created large collective farms or communes.

B. Peasants were required to live and work on communes, owning nothing.

C. It was considered a success because it boosted the output of crops.

D. It was considered a failure after crop famines killed 20 million people.

What did Truman ask Stalin to do at the

Potsdam Conference in July of 1945?

A. Remove troops from Eastern Europe and grant free elections.

B. Build a wall separating East and West Germany

C. Sign a trade agreement with the U.S.

D. Donate money to help rebuild Western Europe.