Cold War Review

Which term best describes developing nations not aligned with either the US or Soviet Union during the Cold War?

What economic system was used to reshape China's economy after the civil war?

Who was the Soviet leader who began destalinization?

What was the primary goal for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan?

What term defines the US foreign policy of blocking Soviet influence and stopping the spread of communism?

This was the plan to increase the combat role of the South Vietnamese while gradually withdrawing US troops.

Which of the following worked together to produce similar goals?

Which of the following contributed to the breakdown of the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Who were most of the Vietcong?

What was the Soviet military alliance made up of the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations under the Soviet control?

What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?

What action did General MacArthur take during the Korean War that immediately led to his discharge?

What was the name of Reagan's space based nuclear defense plan?

Which of the following was NOT a tactic used by the superpowers during the Cold War to influence Third World nations?

This was the military alliance made up of the democratic nations of Western Europe as well as the US and Canada.

During the war in Korea, what did President Truman and Douglas MacArthur disagree strongly about?

Which term describes the policy of lessening Cold War tensions?

The struggle over political differences between the US and Soviet Union that stopped short of war

Which leader won China's civil war, and what name did he give to the country?

The division of Europe into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.

Why did the United States shift from a policy of brinkmanship to détente?

What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?

Willingness to go to the edge of war.

Which term best describes the idea that the fall of one country to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors?

Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?