Unit 15 world history questions and
answers 100% pass
Which of the following nations did NOT occupy a sector of Berlin after World War II?
✔✔Belgium.
Which of the following nations was NOT an original member of NATO?
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Unit 15 world history questions and
answers 100% pass
Which of the following nations did NOT occupy a sector of Berlin after World War II?
✔✔Belgium.
Which of the following nations was NOT an original member of NATO? ✔✔Poland.
An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving is best described
as ✔✔A blockade.
A person who has left a country in order to settle in another, usually for political reasons, is best
described as ✔✔An émigré.
The following statement best reflects the effects of the Berlin Airlift ✔✔By 1949 it was delivering
considerably more cargo than previously transported into the city by rail.
Radio Free Europe was primarily funded by ✔✔The United States
An area over which aircraft may not fly without risk of interception is known as ✔✔no-fly zone
The 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état put the following group into power ✔✔The Communists.
The name of the first president of Indonesia was ✔✔Sukarno.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion can best be described as ✔✔An attempt to topple a government led by
US-trained exiles
Suharto's political views could best be described as follows: ✔✔Strongly anti-communist.
As prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was extremely critical of ✔✔Agreements with British
oil companies
A war where a small group uses unconventional tactics to fight a larger traditional military is
known as ✔✔A guerilla war.
The last name of the dictator overthrown in the Cuban Revolution was ✔✔Batista.
The following term best describes withdrawal from a colony by a colonial power
✔✔Decolonization
The country that invaded East Timor in 1975 was: ✔✔Indonesia.
A vote by the electorate on a single political question referred to them for a direct decision is
known as: ✔✔A referendum
The following statement best reflects the religious affiliation of Ngo Dinh Diem ✔✔He was a
Roman Catholic
A state of being deprived of the right to vote is known as ✔✔Disenfranchisement.
The politics of Syngman Rhee can best be described as ✔✔Strongly anti-communist.
The Korean War started when ✔✔North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel.
The practice by a person in power of favoring relatives or friends, such as by giving them jobs, is
known as ✔✔Nepotism.
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a period of time is known as
✔✔An armistice.
A drop in the price of the following commodity especially weakened the Soviet economy in the
1980s ✔✔Oil.
The country where Pope John Paul II was born is ✔✔Poland.
The last name of the next Soviet general secretary after the death of Stalin was ✔✔Khrushchev.
For most of the 1980s the Soviet Union was bogged down in a war in the following country
✔✔Afghanistan.
The policy of restructuring the Soviet economic and political systems launched by Mikhail
Gorbachev was known as ✔✔Perestroika
The following statement best reflects the economy during the Brezhnev era of Soviet history
✔✔This was a period of economic stagnation
The Soviet policy of more open government and wider access to information launched by Mikhail
Gorbachev was known as ✔✔Glasnost
The last name of the Soviet general secretary most closely associated with the period of détente
was ✔✔Brezhnev
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