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.

• Major contributors to Europe’s rapid economic recovery after World War Two include all of the below factors, except:
  • foreign aid
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on European economic recovery in this learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • income from European colonies less affected by the war
    • Correct. Well done!
  • scientific and technological advances
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on European economic recovery in this learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • growth in world trade
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on European economic recovery in this learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
• The Marshall Plan:
  • cost about $12 billion
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better choice. Review the activity on European economic recovery in this learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • was very successful
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better choice. Review the activity on European economic recovery in this learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • was condemned by the Soviet Union as an imperialist tactic
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better choice. Review the activity on European economic recovery in this learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • all of the above answers are correct
    • Correct. Well done!
• The Allied occupation of Japan instituted all of the below major changes except:
  • censorship
    • Correct. Censorship was imposed by both Japanese leaders during the war and the Allied forces afterwards, although exactly what was censored changed rather dramatically!
  • the right to vote for women
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the Allied occupation of Japan in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • constitutional democracy
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the Allied occupation of Japan in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • a prohibition on military forces
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on the Allied occupation of Japan in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• NATO was created with the primary purpose of:
  • promoting economic cooperation between developed, democratic countries in Europe
    • Incorrect. Review the activities on the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • being a defensive alliance against communist aggression
    • Correct. Well done!
  • providing an alternative to the ineffectiveness of the UN during the Cold War
    • Incorrect. Review the activities on the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • all of the above answers are correct
    • Incorrect. Review the activities on the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• Perestroika:
  • was largely unsuccessful.
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better option. Review the learning activity on post-war Europe in the learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • was implemented by Gorbachev, along with glasnost
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better option. Review the learning activity on post-war Europe in the learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • decentralized the Soviet economy
    • Incorrect. This is part of the answer, but there is a better option. Review the learning activity on post-war Europe in the learning pathway to help you find the correct response.
  • all of the above answers are correct
    • Correct. Well done!

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:

• The Warsaw Pact was a direct response to the creation of NATO.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activities on the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• Between 1954-1960, tensions were at their peak in the Cold War.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Review the activities on the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• When the Soviet Union exploded their first atomic bomb in 1949, American military planners were shocked.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activities on the Cold War in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• After World War Two, most Nazis were prosecuted as war criminals.
  • True
    • Incorrect. There were large-scale amnesties and only a very small percentage of Nazis were held to account for their crimes.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• There were three occupation zones in Germany after the war – the British, American and Russian.
  • True
    • Incorrect. There was also a French zone.
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!