Quiz  /  Glossary and Terms

  • 1. 
    What is an economic system based on a free market system and private ownership?

  • Capitalism
  • Communism
  • Socialism
  • Anarchism

  • 2. 
    Which of these countries was NOT a member of the Eastern Bloc?

  • East Germany
  • Poland
  • Soviet Union
  • France

  • 3. 
    Which of these terms is closely associated with communism?

  • Capitalism
  • Marxism
  • Freedom of Speech
  • Free market

  • 4. 
    Which description below best describes glasnost?

  • A thawing between the Soviet Union and the United States
  • An agreement on the reduction of nuclear arms
  • A race to get the first man on the Moon
  • An increase of openness in the Soviet government

  • 5. 
    What does NATO stand for?

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • National Archives and Treaty Office
  • Nations Against Transportation Occupations
  • National Association and Transitional Organization

  • 6. 
    What were the two world superpowers during the Cold War?

  • Japan and China
  • Denmark and Sweden
  • France and Germany
  • United States and the Soviet Union

  • 7. 
    What is the term for a war where the two sides fight through another country, like the Vietnam War or the Korean War?

  • McCarthy
  • Proxy
  • Red Scare
  • Solidarity

  • 8. 
    What word best defines the term perestroika as implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev?

  • Crackdown
  • Transparency
  • Openness
  • Reconstruction

  • 9. 
    Which country in the Space Race was the first to put a man on the Moon?

  • United Kingdom
  • Japan
  • China
  • United States

  • 10. 
    What was the Warsaw Pact?

  • An agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States to stop building nuclear weapons
  • An alliance between the Soviet Union and other countries in Eastern Europe
  • It was a non-communist trade union in Poland
  • A type of communism first tried out in Warsaw
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