Cold War and Communist Expansion Quiz

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Cold War and Communist Expansion

The Marshall Plan was a US policy to rebuild war-torn Europe, while the Truman Doctrine promised to support countries fighting communism.
The Soviet Union and Eastern European states formed a military alliance called the Warsaw Pact, and countries under Soviet influence were called satellite states.
Mao Zedong led the Communists to victory in China's civil war, and his Great Leap Forward program aimed to increase industrial output at the expense of agriculture.
The Red Guards were a group of Chinese citizens who enforced Mao's ideas and eliminated old ones, but their actions horrified the Chinese people.
The United States sent troops to Vietnam to stop the spread of communism, and the Paris Peace Accords allowed the US to withdraw from Vietnam.
Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba and became a threat to the US due to his ties with the Soviet Union.
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by exiled Cuban fighters to overthrow Castro's government.
The Cuban missile crisis occurred when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, leading to a standoff with the US that was resolved when the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles if the US removed missiles from Turkey and promised not to invade Cuba.
The US and the Soviet Union engaged in proxy wars, using substitutes to fight each other without direct conflict.
The Berlin Wall was erected to stop the flow of refugees from East Germany and prevent the spread of communism.
The US feared the spread of communism because they believed the Communists wanted to dominate the world, and the US and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II due to their distrust of each other.
If the US lost South Vietnam to communism, they believed other Asian countries would also fall to communism, and North Vietnam would become communist too.

Description

Test your knowledge of the Cold War and Communist Expansion with this quiz. From the Marshall Plan to the Cuban missile crisis, this quiz covers key events and concepts of the era, including the Truman Doctrine, the Warsaw Pact, the Red Guards, and the Bay of Pigs invasion. See how much you know about the proxy wars, the Berlin Wall, and the fear of communism's spread. Come and take this quiz to see how well you understand this pivotal period in world history.