Origins of the Cold War is one of 9 topics in the Grade 12 History CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. Which economic and political system is based on private ownership of property, free markets, and multi-party democracy?
Capitalism
Communism
Feudalism
Fascism
Answer: Capitalism — Capitalism, championed by the United States during the Cold War, is based on private ownership, free markets, and representative multi-party democracy.
Easy
2. The Soviet Union's political and economic system was based on the theories of which thinker, calling for state or collective ownership of the means of production?
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Answer: Karl Marx — Communism as practised in the Soviet Union was based on Marxist theory, calling for the abolition of private property and state or collective ownership of industry and land.
Medium
3. In which year did the Bolshevik Revolution bring a communist government to power in Russia?
Answer: 1917 — The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the world's first communist state, later becoming the Soviet Union.
