Cold War Review

Question 1

What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?

Accepted Answer

Soviet launching of a space satellite, Sputnik I

Question 2

What was the Soviet military alliance made up of the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations under the Soviet control?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 3

Which term describes the policy of lessening Cold War tensions?

Accepted Answer

Détente

Question 4

Which of the following worked together to produce similar goals?

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine and containment

Question 5

Willingness to go to the edge of war.

Accepted Answer

Brinksmanship

Question 6

This was the plan to increase the combat role of the South Vietnamese while gradually withdrawing US troops.

Accepted Answer

Vietnamization

Question 7

Who were most of the Vietcong?

Accepted Answer

pro-Communist North Vietnamese

Question 8

What was the primary goal for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan?

Accepted Answer

to reestablish the Communist regime in Afghanistan

Question 9

Which leader won China's civil war, and what name did he give to the country?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong; People's Republic of China

Question 10

This was the military alliance made up of the democratic nations of Western Europe as well as the US and Canada.

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 11

Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 12

Who was the Soviet leader who began destalinization?

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 13

What action did General MacArthur take during the Korean War that immediately led to his discharge?

Accepted Answer

attempted to use the press and Congress to go over the presidents head

Question 14

During the war in Korea, what did President Truman and Douglas MacArthur disagree strongly about?

Accepted Answer

the use of nuclear weapons

Question 15

What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

to support countries that rejected communism

Question 16

What economic system was used to reshape China's economy after the civil war?

Accepted Answer

communism

Question 17

Which term best describes the idea that the fall of one country to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors?

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 18

Which of the following contributed to the breakdown of the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Stalin's unfulfilled promise of free elections

Question 19

The division of Europe into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.

Accepted Answer

Iron curtain

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT a tactic used by the superpowers during the Cold War to influence Third World nations?

Accepted Answer

threatened them with nuclear attack

Question 21

What term defines the US foreign policy of blocking Soviet influence and stopping the spread of communism?

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 22

Which term best describes developing nations not aligned with either the US or Soviet Union during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

3rd World

Question 23

What was the name of Reagan's space based nuclear defense plan?

Accepted Answer

Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)

Question 24

Why did the United States shift from a policy of brinkmanship to détente?

Accepted Answer

The country needed to heal its internal conflicts over Vietnam.

Question 25

The struggle over political differences between the US and Soviet Union that stopped short of war

Accepted Answer

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