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The Cold War
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The build-up of nuclear arsenals by each superpower was called the...
domino theory
flexible response
Manhattan Project
arms race
2
The threat of nuclear weapons by each side to prevent action was called...
attrition
deterrence
domino theory
proxy war
3
This U.S. president advanced this policy during the Cold War...
containment
deterrence
appeasement
mutual assured destruction
4
The Cold War began here, in 1945 BEFORE the end of World War II...
Paris
Yalta
Berlin
Hiroshima
5
In 1962, JFK used this strategy to help bring an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis...
air raids
blockade
invasion
nuclear assault
6
At the end of the Chinese Civil War, nationalist forces were forced here...
Taiwan
Japan
Thailand
Mongolia
7
Indira Gandhi built a cooperative relationship with ______ during the Cold War.
United States
Cuba
India
USSR
8
After the Cold War ended, what happened to NATO?
it added more countries
it punished the Soviet Union
it ended
it dissolved
9
During her time as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher went to war with...
Argentina
Austria
Afghanistan
India
10
The Soviet Union controlled and directed this alliance group during the Cold War.
SEATO
NATO
Axis Powers
Warsaw Pact
11
What did Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev have in common?
industrial buildup
new economic reform
military expansion
Strict gov't. control
12
Who was most responsible for the communist revolution in China?
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
Ho Chi Minh
Deng Xiaopeng
13
In the 1980s, ____ spread across Eastern Europe toward the USSR, helping end the Cold War.
nationalism
capitalism
fascism
containment
14
The Soviet Union controlled nations, called _______ in Eastern Europe.
territories
Central Powers
colonies
satellites
15
Ho Chi Minh led Vietnam against these imperial powers...
England & France
Laos & Cambodia
Soviet Union & China
France & U.S.
16
During the Cold War, the U.S. was characterized by democracy and...
mercantilism
free enterprise
socialism
command economy
17
Eastern and Western Europe was divided by the...
Berlin Wall
Maginot Line
Western Front
Iron Curtain
18
He was the last president of the Soviet Union...
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Ivan Drago
Nikita Khrushchev
19
Gorbachev's attempts to reform the economic and political system of the USSR was...
detente
glasnost
Marxism
perestroika
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A major difference between the Korean & Vietnam War was...
unification
appeasement
aggression
North v. South
