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What was the Bay of Pigs?
Nikita Khrushchev's gift to a now communist Cuba
Failed assassination attempt of Fidel Castro
A Cuban festival
Fidel Castro's celebration after coming to power
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Russia and U.S.'s battle to the moon is known as the
Peristroika
Space Race
Arms Race
Manifest Destiny
3
The Soviet Union was interested in helping Cuba for all the reasons EXCEPT?
To get a launch base for inter-continental missiles.
To test strength of new U.S. president, JFK
To start a war with Great Britain
To help a new Communist state
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WAR BY PROXY regarding the U.S and USSR was what?
Country became Communist if all those around it did.
Smaller countries would be at war with either of the two countries or ally
Nazism spread due to war
One country became Democratic all those around it would also.
5
The U.S. president in office at the end of the Cold War
Jimmy Carter
George Herbert Bush
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
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New, softer concepts that would reshape USSR from Communism, by Gorbachov
Wataba and Kerilinko
Yin and Yang
Bay of Pigs and Liberdad
Glasnost and Perestroika
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East and West Germany
were divided by this
Truman Doctrine
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Hate
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What event ALMOST led to a Nuclear War during the Cold War?
Satellite States
McCarthyism
Cuban Missile Crisis
North Vietnam invading South Vietnam
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NATO stands for
North America Treaty Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North Allegiance Treaty Organization
North Allies Treaty Organization
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The 7 nations orbiting/controlled by the Soviet Union/Warsaw pact.
Allied states
Independent states
Satellite states
Altered states
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All were options for President Kennedy to defuse Cuban Missile Crisis EXCEPT
Do Nothing
Air attack on USSR
Nuclear War
Invasion of Cuba
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Why is the Cold War called a "cold" war?
The two Superpowers didn't have armies or weapons, but hot.
The world was falling into another Ice Age
The US and USSR were really friends all along
The US and USSR never fought directly, never hot
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What happened to end the Cold War?
US began trading with USSR
Soviet Union joined the United States
US agreed to accept Communism
USSR began restructuring their economy: goodbye Communism
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The name of the U.S. military base located in Cuba.
Guantanamo Bay
Pearl Harbor
Sien Chung Port
LaRocha Compound
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The leader of Communist Cuba
Batista
Gonzalez
Castro
Del Negro
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MAD stands for
Mutual Assured Destruction
Mass Atomic Deployment
Multiple Atomic Detonators
Made Atomic Destruction
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What continents did Communism spread to?
Latin America
All of the above
Africa
Asia
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What happened after the Soviet Union dissolved?
Russia elected their first president
All of the above
No more Communism in Europe
Many new countries emerged, with Russia being the largest
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The name of the Springfield Pizza restaurant that once was a funeral parlor
Bad-a-Bing!!!
Paddy's!!!
Cousin Vinnie!!!!
Cassano!!!!
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Last Communist leader of USSR
Mikhail Gorbochav
Fidel Castro
Nikita krushchev
Leonoid Brezhnev
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Agreement of countries to support USSR during Cold War
Warsaw Pact
SEATO
NATO
United Nations
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What did the Iron Curtain refer to?
Seperation between US and USSR aka the Atlantic Ocean
Name given to Communist hovering over democracy in Europe, by Churchill
Division between South and North Europe
A popular design in the early 1950s
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Term meaning "to stop Communism from spreading to other countries."
Red Scare
Containment
Diplomacy
Neutrality
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The president of the United States' trusted brother during Cuban Missile Crisis
Edward Kennedy
Paul Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
William Kennedy
