AP Euro Unit 11--The Cold War

Question 1

Why did the Soviet Union establish control over the Eastern Bloc?

Accepted Answer

To create buffer states for protection

Question 2

Rival political/military alliances during the Cold War

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact vs. NATO

Question 3

The Warsaw Pact was used against

Accepted Answer

Hungary and Czechoslovakia., other members of the alliance.

Question 4

What ended the good relations between 1953-1960?

Accepted Answer

the U-2 incident

Question 5

Weapons used against enemy nations during the Cold War were

Accepted Answer

military aid to other countries, economic aid to other countries, propaganda

Question 6

Term used to describe the division of Europe into democratic and communist regions

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 7

What ended the detente in 1979?

Accepted Answer

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Question 8

Why was the rise of Castro alarming to the USA?

Accepted Answer

Because it fueled fears that communism was spreading close to the USA

Question 9

The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 was due to

Accepted Answer

the Brezhnev doctrine.

Question 10

The Big Three made what decision about Germany after WWII?

Accepted Answer

It would be divided into four occupation zones

Question 11

The first American satellite was

Accepted Answer

Explorer

Question 12

Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 13

What was the 1968 Uprising in Czechoslovakia called?

Accepted Answer

the Prague Spring

Question 14

Which of the following was NOT part of the Truman Doctrine and US policy of containment?

Accepted Answer

overthrow existing communist nations

Question 15

How did the Soviet invasions into eastern Europe during the Cold War differ from invasions in WWII?

Accepted Answer

The Soviets were aggressors, not heroes who freed them from the Nazis.

Question 16

As the leader of the USSR, Khrushchev did all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

eliminate the Five Year Plans and collective farms.

Question 17

What happened if people tried to climb over the Berlin Wall?

Accepted Answer

They were arrested or shot immediately

Question 18

The western Allies reacted to the Berlin Blockade by

Accepted Answer

launching the Berlin Airlift., creating a political alliance.

Question 19

What was the goal of Alexander Dubcek's reforms that led to the Prague Spring of 1968?

Accepted Answer

To put a human face to socialism

Question 20

How did the US and Britain rescue West Berliners when Stalin blocked access to the city?

Accepted Answer

Airlifted thousands of tons of supplies

Question 21

US Plan to provide aid for economic recovery in the post-WWII world

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 22

Most dangerous conflict of the Cold War, when the world came close to nuclear war

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 23

What regions were considered "behind the iron curtain"?

Accepted Answer

the Soviet Union and its satellite nations

Question 24

What did the SALT treaties do?

Accepted Answer

started the detente, slowed down the nuclear arms race

Question 25

Why did Khrushchev invade Hungary in 1956?

Accepted Answer

Because its communist leader attempted to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact

Question 26

Communist dictator of Cuba in 1959

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 27

What development caused the Cold War nuclear arms race to evolve into a race for space?

Accepted Answer

ICBMs

Question 28

In what year did Europe experience uprisings in both the east and the west?

Accepted Answer

1968

Question 29

Why did President Truman emphasize helping European nations?

Accepted Answer

Because WWII affected Europe the worst, Because unstable govts were more likely to experience communist uprisings

Question 30

Why did Stalin block Berlin in 1948?

Accepted Answer

To prevent the western Allies from reunifying Germany

Question 31

How did the Bay of Pigs lead to the most dangerous conflict of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

It made the US look weak, unable to oppose Soviet expansion

Question 32

A second time of relaxed tensions of the Cold War took place in the 1970s, called the

Accepted Answer

detente

Question 33

As a result of Khrushchev agreeing to remove the nuclear weapons from Cuba,

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro ended the alliance between Cuba and the USSR., Khrushchev was forced to resign.

Question 34

Structure that symbolizes the political and ideological differences of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Berlin Wall

Question 35

Goal of the Bay of Pigs was to

Accepted Answer

train Cuban refugees, start a rebellion, overthrow communism

Question 36

The Truman Doctrine was first applied to aid

Accepted Answer

Greece., Turkey.

Question 37

Basic principle of the Truman Doctrine was that the US

Accepted Answer

had a responsibility to aid and protect other countries

Question 38

Rival economic alliances during the Cold War

Accepted Answer

COMECON vs. Marshall Plan

Question 39

The first Soviet satellite was

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 40

Stalin's death ushered in a time of relaxed tensions called

Accepted Answer

the Cold War Thaw

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