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China's communist leader lured Chinese peasants to the Communist Red Army
Long Duck Dong
Sirhan Sirhan
Musa Musa
Mao Zedong
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Truman fired General MacArthur because of MacArthur's insistence that the US should bomb ____
China
Japan
South Korea
North Korea
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This event led Khrushev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold
U-2 incident
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Airlift
McCarthyism
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This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union
U-2 Incident
Berlin Airlift
Hu Hot Restoration
Berlin Blockade
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The Soviet blockade of West Berlin was a response to
efforts by Western nations to reunify Germany
the Marshall Plan
formation of NATO
efforts by Western nations to divide Germany
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The satellite nations were members of this military alliance
Warsaw Pact
Sayler's talkabouts
NATO
NAFTA
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Between 1944 and 1947 Chinese Nationalists
Attracted overwhelming support from the nations peasants
Relied heavily on financial aid from the Soviet Union
were led by Mao Zedong
Ruled in the southern and eastern regions of China
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This aid program was directed against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Coopers Cash
Marshall Plan
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Satellite nations of the Soviet Union joined the military alliance known as
NAFTA
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Drago Pact
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American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb increase when
Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb
policy of containment failed in China
Soviet Union launched a space satellite
Soviet Union exploded a hydrogen bomb
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Was the leader of the Communists in China
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
Kim II Sung
Chiang Kai-shek
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General Douglas MacArthur argued that the Korean War
was not a vital American interest
should be limited to Korea
should be extended into a war against the Soviet Union
should be extended into a war against China
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The 38th parallel became an important dividing line between
North and South Korea
North and South China
Korea and China
China and Taiwan (Formosa)
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The Soviet Union set up the _ in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany
German Democratic Republic
iron curtain
Berlin Airlift
Berlin blockade
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He led the nation developed the first hydrogen bomb
Nikita Khrushchev
Francis Gary Powers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sylvester Stallone
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This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the US and the USSR after WW2
Cold War
Korean War
Truman Doctrine
Vietnam War
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Private citizens control economic activity in a
communist system
socialist system
capitalist system
totalitarian government
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Eastern European nations served as a buffer in btwn other countries and USSR
satellite nations
Warsaw countries
Berlin Wall
containment
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The US responded to fear of Soviet military action in the Middle East by issuing the
Marshall Plan
Eisenhower Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
Truman Doctrine
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The main goal of the _ was to stop the spread of communism
iron curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Warsaw Pact
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Appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict
Nationalists
South Koreans
Communists
North Koreans
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He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
I.P Freeley
Franklin. D. Roosevelt
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Involved the use of airplanes to bring food and supplies to the people of West Berlin
Berlin Wall
Eisenhower Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
U-2 Incident
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This groups cover actions helped to topple governments in Iran and Guatemala
CIA
HUAC
U-2 incident
Warsaw Pact
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The policy of _ threatened retaliation to the edge of all out war against acts of aggression
diplomacy
militarism
rectify
brinkmanship
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General Douglas MacArthur commanded US forces in
Middle East
Hungary
Guatemala
Korea
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Billions of dollars in economic aid was provided to many foreign nations as part of the
Marshall Plan
Dornacker Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
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The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to
forced Germany to pay war reparations
restrict the spread of communism
maintain international peace through the UN
promote free elections in Europe
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Defensive military alliance was the first that the United States ever entered during peacetime
NATO
RATO
NAFTA
NEATO
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Of the following participants in the Korean War, which fought on the side of the Communists
United Nations
South Korea
Gina
China
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When da Soviet Union exploded an atom bomb the US responded by intensifying efforts to develop
NATO
an atomic bomb
space satellite
a hydrogen bomb
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Plan to keep Communism from spreading to other countries
containment
ellianment
machiavellian
mendelian