Question 02 - FUVEST 2003 - Transference – Identify the historically INCORRECT alternative regarding the process called Cold War:a) in 1947, the US president enunciated the Truman Doctrine, through which communist expansion should be contained; b) with the Monroe Plan, to help the countries in reconstruction, England aimed at the independence of Europe in relation to the USA; c) the USSR and the so-called “people's democracies” created COMECON as a response to the Marshall Plan; d) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization brought Western countries together in a military alliance; e) Germany was divided into two states:the German Federal Republic, under the influence of the capitalist bloc, and the German Democratic Republic, communist.
Question 03 - UTFPR 2018-1 - CM and PB - Summer - In the 1950s, in the United States, books, pamphlets, information in the cinema, lectures in schools, interviews with scientists in the mass media were common, with the aim of teaching the population how to protect themselves from an atomic attack coming from the Soviet Union. The fear of nuclear war has plagued the world for 45 years. Mark the alternative that presents the term as the tensions in international relations between the two political and military powers became known. A) Vietnam War. B) War of the Two Roses. C) Cold War. D) Korean War. E) War of the Two Worlds.
Question 04 - FUVEST 2019 - 1st Phase - The peculiarity of the Cold War was that, in objective terms, there was no imminent danger of world war. More than that:despite the apocalyptic rhetoric on both sides, but especially on the American side, the governments of the two superpowers accepted the global distribution of forces at the end of the Second World War, which amounted to an unequal but uncontested balance of power in its essence. Eric Hobsbawm. Era of extremes:the brief 20th century. São Paulo:Companhia das Letras, 1995, p.224. In this passage, the author states thata) the Cold War was characterized by a balance between two great powers which, in practice, implied that both would not be truly interested in an open war. b) despite the official speeches conveyed by governments at the time, there was never, in fact, a Cold War, since the 20th century was not conducive to the emergence of world conflicts.c) because the Cold War took place before the Second World War World War II, and due to the fact that both involved conflicts on a global scale, it can be said that one prepared the other.d) the end of the Second World War showed the powers of the time the inadequacy of a new global conflict, which made the environment e) the Cold War was the first truly world war, since it involved not only military conflicts, but also a “war” of governmental interests and discourses.
Question 05 - FUVEST 2004 - Transfer – During the Cold War, the superpowers defined their partners according to aa) location, which should allow them to keep an eye on the enemy, resulting in a policy of containment. b) offering tax incentives and permission to send profits to hegemonic nations, generating a fiscal war between peripheral countries.c) presence of skilled labor for excellent tasks, resulting in technical cooperation agreements between countries.d) occurrence of strategic natural resources, such as uranium, resulting in disarmament agreements at the end of the 20th century.e) presence of islands, used for testing nuclear weapons, generating a pact of mutual non-aggression between allies.
Question 06 - UNIFOR 2002.2 - The end of the 1980s was marked by the crisis of real socialism and the end of the Cold War. (A) The relationship between these two historical facts is associated with the program of economic and political reforms carried out in the Soviet Union, known as perestroika and glasnost. . (B) the economic aid measures, voted by the United States Congress, to the countries of Eastern Europe. (C) the opening of the European Community to immigrants from the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. (D) the economic growth of the socialist countries that needed foreign market for its products.(And) the Cultural Revolution unleashed in Communist China that caused disorganization in the socialist economy.
Question 07 - UNEC 2015 - Contemporary diplomacy develops in unprecedented circumstances. Rarely has there been a lesser basis of understanding between the great powers, but the use of force has never been so restrained either. (KISSINGER, Henry. American foreign policy Rio de Janeiro, Expressão e Cultura, 1969.) The world political bipolarity that followed the Second World War is clearly observed when Russia and the United States discuss their interests outside their national territories. Such discussions, almost always violent, became known by the expression:a) Cold War. b) Guerrilla wars.c) Struggle for world misunderstanding.d) Conference for nuclear disarmament.
Question 08 - UFPR 2005 - “A shadow descended on the scene until recently lit up by the Allied victories. No one knows what Soviet Russia and its communist international organization intend to do in the immediate future and what the limits, if any, are to its expansionist and proselytizing tendencies.” (Excerpt from a speech given by Winston Churchill, Prime Minister from England, on a visit to the United States”, in 1946.)
“The basic and crucial fact, which cannot be repeated too often, is that the Cold War system proves to be highly functional for the superpowers. And so this system persists, despite the probability of mutual annihilation, in the event of an accidental failure.” (Noam Chomsky, American political scientist, in 1992.) These two statements present positions on the Cold War, which is defined as the division of the world, after the Second World War, in two blocks:the capitalist block, led by the United States, and the communist block, led by the Soviet Union. spreading the concept of the Cold War in the name of defending democracy, the fact is that both blocs used it to justify armamentism. b) Churchill's speech, given after the defeat of Nazi Germany, is a response to the Russian invasion of European countries weakened by the effects of the Second World War. c) Chomsky's words reaffirm, decades later, Churchill's fear in the face of of the Soviet threat and reveal that, in English-speaking countries, there was consensus on the need for a defensive attitude towards the communist bloc.d) Although one of the main developments of the Cold War was the arms race, no military conflict was experienced in that period.e) Brazil, from 1946 to 1964, adopted a position of neutrality in relation to the two superpowers, aligning itself with the United States only with the advent of civil-military dictatorships.
Question 09 - (Adapted) - Instituto Machado de Assis - 2018 - City Hall of Luís Correia - PI - Professor of History -
“The expression was used to describe the state of strong political-military tension between the Western bloc led by the United States and the Eastern bloc led by the former Soviet Union (USSR) that lasted for almost the entire second half of the 20th century.” In the context of History, the above fragment conceptualizes:
(A) Congo War.
(B) Vietnam War.
(C) Cold War.
(D) War from Paraguay.
Question 10 - EAD / UFPR 2012/2 - The strips of Mafalda, a character created by Argentine cartoonist Quino, were published from 1964 to 1973. In the following strip, Mafalda makes reference to the process of the arms race that took place during the Cold War.
(QUINO. Toda a Mafalda. São Paulo:Martins Fontes, 1993, p. 133. )
About this historical period, it is correct to say:
a) During this period, the world was ideologically divided between capitalist countries, led by the USA, and socialist countries, led by China.
b) The end of this period was marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the World Trade Center in 1989.
c) At the military level, this period was marked by the actions of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the UN (United Nations).
d) Brazil, ideologically, aligned itself with the ideas of the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
e) For more than forty years, world power was divided into two blocs:the capitalist bloc, led by the USA, and the socialist bloc, led by the USSR.
Question 11 - FGV-SP 2004 - 1st phase - 1st day - During the Cold War period, the international scenario was marked:
a) By the expansion of communist regimes in the interior of Latin America and by Western Europe.
b) By the bipolarization of world power involving the two superpowers , Soviet Union and United States of America.
c) For the militarization of Germany, despite the decisions of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences.
d) For the polarization of the world in two blocks composed by USSR, England , USA and France, against Germany, Italy and Japan.
e) For the balance of forces between developed countries and so-called Third World countries.
Question 12 - IBADE - 2019 - SEE-AC - The end of the Second World War, in the mid-40s of the 20th century, reconfigured world ageopolitics and inaugurated the period known as the Cold War. Among the characteristics of the Cold War, the following can be highlighted:
A) alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan based on authoritarian governments.
B) political-military influence of the United States in Eastern Europe and China.
>C) implementation by the Soviet Union of the Marshall Plan in Central America.
D) expansion of European colonization in Africa with the Berlin Conference.
E) arms race between the powers of the time:USA and USSR.
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