GED Social Studies : Cold War
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Example Question #21 : Cold War
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was meant to overthrow the government of __________
Fidel Castro.
Saddam Hussein.
Ayatollah Khomeini.
Nikita Khrushchev.
General Tito.
Fidel Castro.
The Bay of Pigs invasion took place in 1961. The CIA trained exiled Cuban troops that then touched down on Cuban soil with the intention of overthrowing the Cuban government and assassinating Fidel Castro. It did not succeed.
Example Question #22 : Cold War
Yuri Gagarin __________
defected to the United States and sold Soviet secrets.
was assassinated on the commands of Josef Stalin for attempting to sell state secrets.
crashed a spy plane on United States’ soil.
was the first human in outer space.
assassinated Josef Stalin.
was the first human in outer space.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human in outer space. He was a citizen of the Soviet Union and was the first man to orbit the earth in 1961. His achievement was part of the early years of the Space Race when the Soviet Union was the first nation to put a satellite into orbit and the first to put a man into space.
Example Question #23 : Cold War
The Warsaw Pact emerged __________
into prominence following the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
during the Second World War between Germany and the Soviet Union.
after the fall of the Soviet Union, in order to promote democracy in the former European states of the U.S.S.R.
in opposition to NATO.
immediately following the Russian Revolution.
in opposition to NATO.
The Warsaw Pact is the name given to the treaty and alliance formed between the various communist states of Europe and the Soviet Union in response to the signing of NATO between the capitalist states of Western Europe and America.
Example Question #83 : United States History
The fall of the Soviet Union occurred in the __________
1990s.
1980s.
1960s.
2000s.
1950s.
1990s.
The fall of the Soviet Union, and therefore the end of the Cold War, occurred in 1991. This represents the end of the great competition between capitalism and communism that had raged for forty-five years since the end of World War Two. Although it is worth noting that there are still communist nations in the world—China and North Korea are two prominent examples.
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