Cold War

Question 1

the ___________ supported countries that rejected Communism...sent aid to Turkey & Greece

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 2

gave LBJ authorization without a formal dec. of war, for the use of conventional military force

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 3

Ended 30 years of hostility between Israel & Egypt

Accepted Answer

Camp David Accords

Question 4

system of racial segregation in S Africa that banned all social contact between whites & blacks

Accepted Answer

apartheid

Question 5

Blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism is called ___________

Accepted Answer

containment

Question 6

5 year agreement that limited the # of intercont. ballistic missiles each country could have

Accepted Answer

SALT I

Question 7

Reagan proposed the _______ to protect against enemy missiles

Accepted Answer

Strategic Defense Initiative

Question 8

33 nations joined together in signing a commitment to detente and cooperation of SALT

Accepted Answer

Helsinki Accords

Question 9

idea that the fall of one country to Communism would lead to the fall of others

Accepted Answer

domino theory

Question 10

Who used the campaign platform of Vietnamization?

Accepted Answer

Nixon

Question 11

economic restructuring in the Soviet Union was known as ________

Accepted Answer

perestroika

Question 12

________ adopted the policy of _______ to reduce Cold War tensions

Accepted Answer

Nixon; detente

Question 13

first satellite launched into space by the U.S.

Accepted Answer

Explorer I

Question 14

Which of the following was not one of the 4 modernizations put in place by Deng Xiaoping?

Accepted Answer

education

Question 15

_________ was a policy intended to reduce Cold War tensions

Accepted Answer

detente

Question 16

believed that Soviet Union had the right to prevent satellite states from rejecting Communism

Accepted Answer

Brezhnev

Question 17

What was the Soviet's response to Western nations trying to reunify Germany?

Accepted Answer

blockade of Berlin

Question 18

Russia's first elected president

Accepted Answer

Yeltsin

Question 19

the _________ helped rebuild Western Europe providing them with food and other materials

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 20

response to the Berlin blockade in which U.S. & GB had to fly & drop food for 11 months

Accepted Answer

Berlin airlift

Question 21

10 Western European joined with U.S. & Canada to form a defensive alliance known as ___________

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 22

JFK tries and fails to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro in the ________.

Accepted Answer

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Question 23

Communist leader of China

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 24

Gorbachev is overthrown in the _______

Accepted Answer

August coup

Question 25

Division between North & South Korea is called _________

Accepted Answer

38th parallel

Question 26

_______ acted as internal security, intelligence, and secret police.

Accepted Answer

KGB

Question 27

President following JFK's assassination

Accepted Answer

LBJ

Question 28

first artificial Earth satellite sent into orbit by Soviets

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 29

Mao's economic plan that majorly failed due to poor planning and famine

Accepted Answer

Great Leap Forward

Question 30

Uprising led by Red Guards. Goal was to establish a society of peasants & workers

Accepted Answer

Cultural Revolution

Question 31

__________ purged the country of Stalin's memory.

Accepted Answer

destalinization

Question 32

__________ is the policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

Accepted Answer

Brinkmanship

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