A great movie made the year Mrs. Baumann was born, Reagan's plan to create a lazer shield above the US (SDI)

The governing bodies of the UN are:

Security Council and the General Assembly

What was the primary goal for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

to re-establish the Communist regime in Afghanistan

A Sandinista leader in Nicaragua

Why did the Soviets create the Berlin Blockade?

To break West Berlin from the Western powers

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1
The US and her allies were known as
Awesome
COMECON
NATO
Warsaw Pact
2
In Poland the union ______________ led a revolution under _________________
Workers Party, Leonid Breznev
Solidarity, Lech Walesa
Popular Front, Antonin Novotny
Polish Nationalist Party, Alexander Dubcek
3
This Communist nation was NOT part of the Warsaw Pact
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Romania
Hungary
4
Who came up with the metaphor of the "Iron Curtain" dividing east and west?
Josef Stalin
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
5
What idea was the major justification for US foreign policy during the Cold War era?
Khmer Rouge
Domino Theory
Vietnamization
non-aligned nations
6
What exiled religion leader led the religious opposition to Western influence in Iran?
Ayatollah Khomeini
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Muhammad Ali (of Egypt)
Hassan Rouhani
7
This was the American policy of giving aid to those resisting takeover by Communist nations
Kenan Policy
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Containment
8
Slobadan Milosevic used ethnic cleansing against which group of people?
Slovenes
Croatia's Serbian minority
Bosnian Serbs
Bosnian Muslims
9
The policy of détente was mainly intended to
call world attention to human rights violations
Reduce Cold War tensions
solidify US relations with its economic allies
Restrict the spread of Communism
10
What was the origin of a divided Germany?
Stalin took the East
The Yalta Conference
Germany's loss of WWII
The SALT treaty
11
What event increased US spending on education and technology?
Soviet launching of Sputnik
establishment of the Warsaw Pact
Chinese-Soviet treaty of friendship
Cuban Missile Crisis
12
The Truman Doctine was aimed at which countries?
The Former WWII Allies
The Soviet Satellites
Yugoslavia (the Balkans)
Greece and Turkey
13
What was Star Wars
The largest nuclear missile ever made by the US
A great movie made the year Mrs. Baumann was born
Reagan's plan to create a lazer shield above the US (SDI)
The period where the Soviets shot down a U2 spy plane
14
The governing bodies of the UN are:
Alliance and Strategic Command
Security Council and the General Assembly
Trusteeship Council and General Council
Assembly and the Permanent Secratariat
15
What was the primary goal for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
To gain control of Middle east oil supplies
to cause the US to boycott the 1980 olympics
to fight an indirect war with the US
to re-establish the Communist regime in Afghanistan
16
Daniel Ortega was
The man receiving money from the Iran-Contra scandal
A Sandinista leader in Nicaragua
The leader of the Contras
A US supported Nicaraguan dictator
17
Which countries were on the Security Council of the UN?
The winners of WWII
The founding members of the UN
Representatives from each continent
The most powerful nations in the world
18
What event marks the end of the Cold War according to most historians?
Détente
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Helsinki Accords
The Fall of the Soviet Union
19
The anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan supported by the US
Al Quaeda
Hezbollah
Mujahadeen
Talilban
20
Why did the Soviets create the Berlin Blockade?
To stop an east/west war in Germany
To break West Berlin from the Western powers
To showcase Soviet power
To punish the people for escaping to the west

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