World History

Chapter 17
Restructuring the Postwar World

A.

Name: ______________________________

Match the following people with the appropriate description.

1. ______ Ho Chi Minh

2. ______ General Douglas MacArthur
3. ______ Mujahedeen
war with China.
4. ______ Khmer Rouge
5. ______ Ngo Dinh Diem
6. ______ Mossadeq
7. ______ Fidel Castro
8. ______ Imre Nagy
9. ______ Nehru
10. _____ General Westmoreland

a. Afghanistans holy warriors

b. Corrupt, anti-communist president of South
Vietnam
c. American commander fired by President Truman
for wanting to start a nuclear
d. Leader of the Cuban Revolution
e. American commander in South Vietnam
f. Leader of the Vietnamese communist
g. Hungarian communist leader
h. Indias first Prime Minister
i. Iranian prime minister who nationalized
oil
j. Communist rebels who took Cambodia and killed
two million people

B. Fill in the blank with the best possible answer.

11. The __________ ____________ stated that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to communism,
its neighbor would also fall.
12. Richard Nixons chose the policy of ________________ with the purpose of moving away
from brinkmanship and lessening the Cold War tension.
13. President Truman adopted _____________ as the US foreign policy in hopes of stopping the
spread communism.
14. Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev used the ___________ ___________ to justify the USSR
invading Czechoslovakia in 1968.
15. The _________ __________ was the new international organization intended to protect its
members against aggression.

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C. Identify the correct answer for the following questions.

______ All are aims of the Truman Doctrine except:
Halt the spread of communism
Send aid to any democratic government who ask
Provide nuclear assistance to democracies threatened by communism
The US will not intervene where communism already exist.
______ Where was Korea divided?
17th parallel
Prime Meridian
38th parallel
Mason Dixon Line
______ Who was the first president to visit Communist China?
Obama
Nixon
Clinton
Lincoln
______ Which act did congress pass that prevented the US president from committing troops in
foreign conflict without its approval?
War Powers Act
The Paris Peace Accords
NATO
Non-aggression Treaty
______ What was the USs attempt in 1961 to invade Cuba?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Operation Rolling Thunder
Great Leap Forward
______ What was the surprise attack on South Vietnam cities during a 7 day ceasefire by the
Vietcong?
Dtente
Great Leap Forward
Dien Bien Phu
Tet Offensive
______ Who did the Democratic Convention nominate as their presidential candidate after
Johnson announced he would not seek re-election?
Hubert Humphrey
Barry Goldwater
Eugene McCarthy
Bill Clinton
______National Guard troops fired into a crowd of demonstrators and killed four students at
which college?
Columbia State
Blue Mountain State
Wayne State
Kent State

9. ______ In 1950 North Korea invades which country?

a. China
b. South Vietnam
c. South Korea
d. India
10. ______ How did the US and Britain sent aid to Berlin?
a. The Berlin Wall
b. The War Powers Act
c. The Berlin Accords
d. The Berlin Airlift
11. ______ Who were the opposing forces during the Cold War?
a. USSR/Germany
b. USSR/North Vietnam
c. US/USSR
d. US/South Vietnam
12. ______ In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, began secrete construction of what in Cuba?
a. Nuclear missile sites
b. Naval port
c. Contras
d. Nuclear power plant
13. ______ Policy in the Soviet Union to purge the country of Stalins memory?
a. Demilitarization
b. Destalinization
c. Great Leap Forward
d. Containment
14. ______ Which act granted broad military powers to the US president?
a. War Powers Act
b. Pair Accords
c. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
d. NATO
15. ______ Who were the South Vietnamese communist guerillas?
a. Vietcong
b. Contras
c. Khmer Rouge
d. The Red Guard
16. ______ The event in 1979 were 60 Americans were held hostage for 444 days by orders of
Khomeini?
a. Espionage
b. Iran Hostage Crisis
c. Iraq Hostage Crisis
d. Bay of Pigs

17. ______ What group used unconventional weapons like booby traps and mines during the
Vietnam War?
a. South Vietnamese
b. Vietcong
c. Khmer Rouge
d. Mujuhedeen
18. ______ What group carried out the Cultural Revolution that was led by Mao Zedong in China?
a. The Red Guard
b. Bolsheviks
c. Khmer Rouge
d. The Red Shirts
19. ______ In 1965, in response to a Vietcong attack, Johnson launch a 3 year bombing attack on
North Vietnam called ___________________
a. Operation Barbarossa
b. Operation Sea Lion
c. Operation Rolling Thunder
d. Operation Overlord
20. ______ What was the name of the ceasefire agreement that ended the Vietnam War?
a. Geneva Accords
b. Berlin Accord
c. Ho Chi Minh Accords
d. Paris Peace Accords
21. ______ What was the plan presented by the US Secretary of State to send aid to needy European
countries?
a. Truman Doctrine
b. Brezhnev Doctrine
c. Marshall Plan
d. Marshall Law
22. ______ What is the Korean War is also referred to?
a. Pointless War
b. Forgotten War
c. Short War
d. Popular War
23. ______ The countries of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam made up what French colony?
a. Vietnam
b. French Indochina
c. French Guinea
d. Cambodia
24. ______ Who did Cambodia and Laos gain their independence from in the early 1950s?
a. Britain
b. US
c. China
d. France
25. ______ What was the defense military alliance created between the US, Canada, and 10 other
nations to protect against communist aggression?

a. NATO
b. Warsaw Pact
c. Marshall Plan
d. NETO
26. ______ What was Mao Zedongs second 5 year plan, that resulted in a famine that killed 20
million people?
a. Great Leap Forward
b. Great Step Backwards
c. Cultural Revolution
d. None of the above
27. ______ What was the peace agreement that arranged the temporary split of Vietnam at the 17th
parallel?
a. Paris Accords
b. Geneva Accords
c. Ho Chi Minh Accords
d. Berlin Accords
28. ______ What was the policy of a nation who chose not to ally with either superpower?
a. Non-aggression
b. Non-alignment
c. Neutrality
d. Containment
29. ______ How long did the Vietnam War last?
a. 10 years
b. 15 years
c. 20 years
d. 30 years
30. ______ What was Nixons strategy that gradually removed US troops from South Vietnam?
a. Demilitarization
b. Destalinization
c. Vietnamization
d. Devietnamization

Answer key:

Matching:
1. f
2. c
3. a
4. j
5. b
6. i
7. d
8. g
9. h
10. e
Fill in the blank:
11. Domino Theory
12. Dtente
13. containment
14. Brezhnev Doctrine
15. United Nations.
Multiple Choice:
1.c
2.c
3.b
4.a
5.b
6.d
7.a
8.d
9.c
10.d
11.c
12.a
13.b
14.c
15.a
16.b
17.b
18.a
19.c
20.d
21.c
22.b
23.b
24.d
25.a

26.a
27.b
28.b
30.c
31.c