Cold War Era Review

Question 1

___ provides financial aid for millions of veterans to attend college.

Accepted Answer

G.I. Bill

Question 2

Soviet leader who proposed radical reforms like glasnost to solve the S.U.’s problems?

Accepted Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 3

What helped the American economy boom after WWII?

Accepted Answer

Consumer Spending

Question 4

_________ was a Soviet Reform under Gorbachev meaning a policy of “openness”?

Accepted Answer

Glasnost

Question 5

Young people who rebelled main stream American society through their actions, clothing, & music

Accepted Answer

Counterculture

Question 6

This event triggered the space race between the U.S. & the S.U?

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 7

___ became the defense strategy for both the United States & Soviet Union during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Deterrence

Question 8

This symbolic event helped bring about the end of the Cold War in 1989?

Accepted Answer

Destruction of the Berlin Wall

Question 9

The ___________ was formed by nations in Europe to eliminate trade barriers in 1957?

Accepted Answer

European Economic Community

Question 10

The Cold War took place between _______ & _______?

Accepted Answer

1945 & 1991

Question 11

______ were nations who refused to take sides in the rivalries of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Nonaligned Nations

Question 12

The ______ was a period of American fear of communists infiltrating American society.

Accepted Answer

The Red Scare

Question 13

What year did the Soviet Union officially collapse?

Accepted Answer

1991

Question 14

The Cold War was a competition between which two superpowers following WWII?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. & S.U.

Question 15

_____ is the name for a terrorist organization that was once led by Osama bin Laden.

Accepted Answer

Al Qaeda

Question 16

As a result of the Truman Doctrine, these two nations received millions in economic aid.

Accepted Answer

Turkey & Greece

Question 17

The ____ provided economic aid to help rebuild Western Europe after WWII & stop spread of Comm.

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 18

The defense organization consisting of the U.S., Canada, and many Western European Nations?

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 19

____ caused a severe economic slowdown in America during the 1970’s?

Accepted Answer

High Energy Costs

Question 20

Name for the generation that followed WWII where birth rates drastically increased?

Accepted Answer

Baby Boom

Question 21

What term best describes the conflict between Bosnian Serbs & Muslims in the post Cold War Era?

Accepted Answer

Ethnic Cleansing

Question 22

This event brought the U.S. & the S.U. to the brink of nuclear war & future Test Ban Treaty?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 23

Lech Walesa led this Polish anti-communist government movement?

Accepted Answer

Solidarity

Question 24

____ was a peaceful revolution that forced communist leaders out of power in Czechoslovakia.

Accepted Answer

Velvet Revolution

Question 25

In reference to the Cold War, what does MAD stand for?

Accepted Answer

Mutual Assured Destruction

Question 26

A military alliance consisting of mainly Eastern European nations formed in response to NATO.

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 27

Churchill used this image to describe the division of Europe in a famous 20th century speech?

Accepted Answer

The Iron Curtain

Question 28

What plan did the U.S. decide on during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

A Blockade of Cuba

Question 29

What caused the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990's?

Accepted Answer

Ethnic tensions & a weak government

Question 30

_____ established a communist government in Cuba.

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

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