Test Bite

1. Who became the leader of the USSR after the death of Stalin?

Krushchev
Khrushchov
Khrushchev

2. What did he say was the only way to avoid "the most destructive war in history"?

"destalinisation"
"peaceful co-existence"
"different roads to communism"

3. What was "destalinisation"?

Open criticism of Stalin.
Open criticism of communism.
Open criticism of the Iron Curtain.

4. What was an example of the arms-race?

ICBMs
NATO
Sputnik

5. What was the Warsaw Pact?

A Treaty of Human Rights.
A military alliance of communist-bloc countries.
A plan to end world hunger.

6. Where did the US deploy more NATO troops?

Korea
Germany
Cuba

7. What is a "clash of ideologies"?

Confrontation between two sides that each believe their way of life is right.
A propaganda war involving competition in arms, space and sport.
Fighting "at arms length" - supporting different sides in other people's wars.

8. Who was the first man to be sent into orbit?

Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shepard

9. How did Senator McCarthy's witch-hunts attack communism in America?

TV propaganda
public trials
political donations

10. What is a U2?

A US government plan to roll back communism.
A 1960s pop group.
A spy plane.

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