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Where did the US fight it's "Hot Wars" during the Cold War?
Cuba and Berlin
Korea and Japan
Korea and Vietnam
Cuba and Vietnam
2
The term used by Churchill that defines the divide between Communist and non-Communist nations.
Berlin Wall
Iron Curtain
Steel Curtain
Great Wall
3
The closest the US and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war was over what island?
Cuba
Japan
Manhattan
Great Britain
4
At the Potsdam Conference
Stalin refused to allow free elections
Nazi war criminals were executed
Germany was divided into 4 parts
the United Nations was created
5
The Cold War began because of disagreements among the Big 3. Who was NOT a member of the Big 3?
Churchill
Hitler
Stalin
Roosevelt
6
The term for the restructuring of the Soviet government in the 1980s was
Detente
Cultural Revolution
Glasnost
Perestroika
7
The US changed its foreign policy from isolationism to __________ during the Cold War.
Parity
Neutrality
Containment
Vietnamization
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The Korean War was caused when
South Korea invaded the North
China attacked the country
Japan attempted to take the colony back
North Korea invaded the South
9
The plan that gave millions in aid to European countries after the war was named after
Eisenhower
Marshall
Roosevelt
Truman
10
The leader of Communist China is
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Jiang Jieshi
Ho Chi Minh
11
Countries under the influence of the Soviet Union were known as
Dominos
NATO nations
Satellites
Non-Aligned Nations
12
What term refers to the easing of tension in the 1970s?
Containment
Entente
Brinkmanship
Detente
13
Why did the Chinese Communists defeat the Nationalists?
They were supported by the US
They had the most money
They were supported by Stalin and Castro
They had support of the lower classes
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What city did Stalin surround which had to be supplied by air to fight communist control?
Potsdam
Munich
Yalta
Berlin
15
Besides Russia, what MAJOR country became communist during the Cold War?
China
Britain
South Korea
Japan
16
The Chinese plan to create communes where people farmed collectively is
Brinkmanship
The Cultural Revolution
The Five Year Plan
The Great Leap Forward
17
The theory that if one country falls to communism the rest will too is
Containment
MAD
Domino Theory
Iron Curtain
18
Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD means:
That you play chicken with the enemy
If you fight a war everyone loses
Peace is not a possibility
Everyone has nuclear weapons
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The Space Race
was won completely by the Soviets
brought the US and USSR to the brink of war
was to provide Space between the US and USSR
was to create better technology to launch bombs
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The agreements that limited the amount of weapons built in the 1970s was
Warsaw Pact
SALT I and II
NATO
START I