Honors World History Unit 7 Review

NOT true about the Berlin Airlift

The Soviet Union cracked down on these two countries in the 1950s/1960s when they introduced democratic reforms.

Duo who "opened" China to the West in the early 1970s

This communist country avoided becoming a "satellite" of the Soviet Union

Cold War sphere including the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China

Introduced capitalist market reforms which has turned China into an economic powerhouse.

Mao's Great Leap Forward resulted in the deaths of perhaps 15 million people because of starvation.

Leader for the independence of Kenya and its first president

His belief that he was the true heir to Stalin and should lead the Marxist revolution hurt the China/Soviet relationship

The European Recovery Program (ERP) is also known as

Cold War school that blamed BOTH the US and USSR for the Cold War

This conflict was fought by a United Nations force led by the US

Mao defeated his Nationalist Kumintang forces who were forced to flee to Taiwan

"Proxy Wars" during the Cold War

This policy kept the arms race from going "nuclear"

South African who fought the system of apartheid (segregation)

Perestroika was intended to allow more transparency into how the Soviet government worked.

Soviet premier in the 1960s/1970s (the period of "detente")

In what year was NATO formed?

The "contest" between the US and USSR for the biggest nuclear arsenal

How did the Soviets react to the Marshall Plan?

Gorbachev's glasnost allowed