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Founder of Solidarity & Poland's 1st President
Nikita Khrushchev
Richard Nixon
Lech Walesa
David Eisenhower
2
Mao's plan of collective farms & infrastructure improvements was a disaster
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Containment Policy
Great Leap Forward
3
After WWII, Germany & Berlin were divided into military zones, each zone controlled by
USA, Great Britain, France & USSR
Scotland, Spain, USSR, USA
Poland, Japan, Great Britain, France
USA, China & USSR
4
"I fear that an Iron Curtain has descended upon Europe" was quoted by
Winston Churchill
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Ronald Reagan
5
What is the outcome of the Korean War?
China controls North Korea & the USSR controls South Korea
Cease fire; borders did not change
Korea is one country
South Korea controls all of the Korean Peninsula
6
US's political response to its Containment Policy is
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
7
Which event is
NOT
part of the Cold War Era?
Battle of Stalingrad & the Battle of the Bulge
Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean & Vietnam Wars
Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift
8
Gorbechev instituted an economic policy that included private ownership of businesses.
Laissez-faire
Shock Therapy
Glasnost
Perestroika
9
Which leader won the Chinese Civil War?
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong - Communist
Jiang Jeishi
Kim Il Sung
10
Nixon improved relations between the US & USSR. This was known as
Flexible Response
containment
Detente
Solidarity
11
Which group did the US support in Nicaragua & El Salvador?
Chinese Nationalist
Vietcong
Contras
Sandinistas
12
Korea is divided at the ____ parallel. To the north, it is _________& to the south, it is _____
38th; democratic; communist
38th; communist; democratic
17th; republic; democratic
25th; totalitarian; fascist
13
Who were the US & USSR leaders during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Winston Churchill & Mao Zedong
Harry S. Truman & Joseph Stalin
Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev
John F. Kennedy & Nikita Khrushchev
14
The Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan are all about the USA Foreign Policy of
Enlightenment
Espionage
Containment
Reformation
15
1st satellite launched into space in 1957 by the USSR
Discovery
Skylab
Sputnik
Great Explorer
16
1st Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, instituted a process to quickly make Russia capitalistic
Shock Therapy
Glasnost
Perestroika
Laissez-faire
17
What was the USA's economic policy to enforce its foreign policy of Containment Policy?
Truman Doctrine
Yalta Conference
Marshall Plan
Potsdam Conference
18
7 countries, Poland, Czech, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania, have are a buffer to the USSR
Imperialistic Nations
Independent Nations
Satellite Nations
Capitalist Nations
19
Stalin wanted the Western countries, particularly the USA, out of Berlin. What action was done?
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Blockade
Flexible Response
20
Who was the 1st woman Prime Minister of Israel & served during the war with Egypt & Syria?
Margaret Thatcher
Golda Meir
Benazir Bhutto
Indira Gandhi
21
What occurred after Mao Zedong won the Chinese Civil War?
Mao formed a new China called the Peoples Republic of China
Ho Chi Minh became Mao's Prime Minister
The USA gave Mao $15 million to industrialize China
Chiang Kai-Shek was publicly tried and executed
22
This nuclear bomb is at least 10 times more powerful than the atomic bomb.
Hydrogen Bomb
Chlorine Bomb
Sulfur Bomb
Silver Bomb
23
What does NATO stand for?
North Asian Traffic Operations
North American Trade Organization
North Australian Transportation Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
24
What was Truman's response to Stalin's order to blockade Berlin?
Dropped a hydrogen on the Kremlin
Nothing. All of Berlin will come under communist control
Started a limited war with the East Germans
Berlin Airlift supplies (medicine, food & fuel to Berliners
25
The meeting of the "Big 3" in Feb. 1945 to determine the future of Europe is called the
Yalta Conference
Congress of Vienna
Berlin Conference
Potsdam Conference