What was the Great Leap Forward?

China's economic policy to jump ahead of the Soviet Union

What is the Domino Theory?

Fear of the spread of communism

What was the Bay of Pigs?

Failed CIA invasion to overthrow Castro

Who won the Korean War?

38th Parallel remained as divider

Who were the Red Guards?

Young Chinese citizens who helped spur the Cultural Rev

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Promise to provide money to stop the spread of communism

Restructuring of the Soviet economy

What led to the end of the Cold War?

A decrease in the competition in the arms race

What was the Berlin Blockade?

Soviet's attempt to control the entire city of Berlin

What is one of the reasons for the Cold War?

Economic rivalry of capitalism and communism

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1
What did Winston Churchill call the divide between Eastern and Western Europe?
The Great Divide
38th Parallel
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
2
Who were the two major communist powers during the Cold War?
US and USSR
Germany and USSR
USSR and China
Germany and Italy
3
What was the Great Leap Forward?
Part of Stalin's Five Year Plans
China's social revolution
Soviet policy of openness
China's economic policy to jump ahead of the Soviet Union
4
What is the Domino Theory?
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Soviet policy of containment
Fear of the spread of democracy
Fear of the spread of communism
5
What are two organizations created for the purpose of collective security?
NATO and United Nations
Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan
NATO and Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact and AGRSTE136
6
What was the Bay of Pigs?
The quarantine of those with the swine flu
Failed CIA invasion to overthrow Castro
U.S. naval base in Cuba
Preventing missiles from reaching Cuba
7
What organization succeeded the League of Nations?
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
United Nations
Nations League
League of Nations II
8
Who developed the ideas of glasnost and perestroika?
Boris Yeltsin
Nikita Khrushchev
Ho Chi Minh
Mikhail Gorbachev
9
Who won the Korean War?
North Korea
38th Parallel remained as divider
The US
The Chinese
10
What is Detente?
How to roast someone in French
Phase of relaxed tensions
Aiding third party conflicts
Soviet policy in East Berlin
11
Who was leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Ho Chi Minh
Kim il Sung
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
12
Who were the Red Guards?
Mao's group to push the economy forward
Protectors of China's northern borders
Young Chinese citizens who helped spur the Cultural Rev
Soviet Union military officers
13
What was the Soviet response to NATO?
Warsaw Pact
Great Leap Forward
No response
Cuban Missile Crisis
14
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Provide money to rebuild Japan
Stop the communists in China from winning their civil war
Provide money to rebuild Europe
Promise to provide money to stop the spread of communism
15
What was the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan?
Molotov Plan
Bay of Pigs
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
16
Who was the American president during the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Bill Clinton
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
17
What is Perestroika?
Development of Soviet industry
Restructuring of the Soviet economy
Similar to paprika in flavor, but not texture
First Soviet satellite
18
Who was president of the U.S. towards the end of the Cold War?
Ronald Reagan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
19
What happened to Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists after the Chinese Civil War?
Chiang Kai-Shek was executed
Executed Mao Zedong
Promoted Mao Zedong as president
Fled to Taiwan
20
What led to the end of the Cold War?
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The nuclear war left the Soviet Union in ruins
The development of space warfare
A decrease in the competition in the arms race
21
What was the Berlin Blockade?
The building of a wall to separate East and West Berlin
Soviet's attempt to control the entire city of Berlin
The failure of the NATO to keep West Berlin
Preventing nuclear missiles from reaching Berlin
22
Who controlled West Germany and West Berlin after WWII?
USSR
France, Great Britain, and USA
Japan and Italy
USA and USSR
23
What is Glasnost?
Universal suffrage
First Soviet satellite
Restructuring of Soviet economies
Openness for discussion
24
What is the best term that describes American and Soviet attempts to gain influence across the globe?
Detente
Informal Colonialism
Revolution
Humanitarianism
25
What is one of the reasons for the Cold War?
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
The freezing temperatures after WWII
Economic rivalry of capitalism and communism
Political rivalry of democratic and authoritarian values

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