World History: Review Test #3

Fear of the Soviet Union's expansion into Eastern Europe led to Truman's participation in creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1945. The United States and Western European nations pledged to defend each other in case of an invasion by the Soviet Union and its satellites.

1. What is the name for this international policy?

2. Which part of a book would explain why the book was written?

Read the following passage and then answer the following questions.

At first glance, the beach at Bikini Atoll, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, looks like a tropical paradise. But in truth the land and water share a poisoned past, from the era when 23 atomic tests were conducted at Bikini Atoll. In 1946, all 167 Bikini residents were relocated. Then 42,000 people and 90 vessels used the island for target practice. This was to be the first peace-time testing of nuclear weapons.

Testing continued until November, 1958. The most damaging explosion came on March 1, 1954, when a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb, code-named Bravo, was exploded on the island. This bomb was the most powerful ever exploded by the United States. It was a thousand more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Not only did it open a mile-wide crater on Bikini Atoll, but it also vaporized one small island and part of another.

To this day, the soil on Bikini contains too much radioactive cesium to permit the natives, now numbering 2,025, to return from their exile.

3. Why was an atomic bomb exploded on Bikini Island in 1954?

4. Which of the following groups of citizens would have most strongly objected to this testing in 1954?

5. Who was President when the original Bikini tests took place?

6. What war had taken place just before the test of the hydrogen bomb, from 1950-1953?

7. What are the 2 main parts of the United Nations?

8. The U.N. was designed with the idea of “collective security” in mind. What is collective security?

9. Why didn’t the U.N. function very well during the Cold War?

10. Where is the U.N. located?

11. Why did the U.N. function as it was designed to during the first Persian Gulf War (1991)?

12. President Kennedy faced a number of world crisis during his 3 years as President. Some of them included:

13. Who is the communist dictator of Cuba?

14. After World War II, the Koran peninsula was divided in half for occupation. Where was the dividing line?

15. Germany was also divided for occupation. What countries occupied Germany at the close of WWII?

16. Whose zone was Berlin located in?

17. How did the U.S. respond when the Soviets cut off all access to Berlin?

18. The leader of the communist movement in China during WWII also became its first communist dictator. What was his name?

19. After WWII, the French attempted to retake their colonies, including Vietnam. Where were they defeated, leading to their withdrawal from that country?

20. Who was the leader of the communist movement in Vietnam?

21. Communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam were know as

22. Some of the reasons that the U.S. originally went to war in Vietnam included

23. The Presidents that were in some way involved in the Vietnam problem included

24. What Congressional Resolution allowed the President to send ground troops into Vietnam in 1965?

25. Who won the Cold War?