Complete the following quiz to review your knowledge from this learning pathway. This quiz will help students undertaking this course for credit to prepare for their test.

• The Soviet Union was greatly helped in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons after World War Two by:
  • spies inside the American nuclear program
    • Correct. Well done!
  • obtaining secret documents from the Nazi program to develop nuclear weapons
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the defection of a top US nuclear scientist to the Soviet Union
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • all of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• What sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis?
  • The confession of a captured Cuban soldier that the Soviet Union had nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at major US cities
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The confession of a Cuban defector that the Soviet Union had nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at major US cities
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The announcement by Soviet President Khrushchev of plans to locate nuclear missiles in Cuba
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The discovery by a US spy plane of nuclear missile sites in Cuba
    • Correct. Well done!
• ‘Star Wars’ was the nickname given to a project proposed by US President Reagan to:
  • create missiles that could be launched from space
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • create an anti-missile system based in space
    • Correct. Well done!
  • create space-based nuclear weapons
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • none of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• The year 1968 is often called ‘the year of the barricades’ due to:
  • the construction of the Berlin Wall
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on revolutionary politics in the West in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the famous John Lennon song
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on revolutionary politics in the West in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • the many protests that occurred
    • Correct. Well done!
  • none of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on revolutionary politics in the West in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:

• Three Mile Island is best known for the discovery of nuclear missile sites there, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the atomic arms race in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• MAD is an acronym for ‘Mutually Assured Detonation’.
  • True
    • Incorrect. It is ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• Predecessors of the European Union include the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the European Union in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer. .
• The ‘Great Leap Forward’ occurred from 1968-72.
  • True
    • Incorrect. The Great Leap Forward occurred from 1958-62.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• During the Great Leap Forward, approximately one million Chinese died.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Unfortunately the death toll was much, much higher – at least 45 million died during this terrible event. Review the activities on China in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Unfortunately the death toll was much, much higher – at least 45 million died during this terrible event.