____ said, “They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won,” after ___.

Nikita Khrushchev; the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Percentages Agreement was signed with the purpose of ___.

Determining the geographical future of Eastern Europe

The New Outer Ring Allied Democracy was formed with the intention of ___.

Facilitating US interception of Soviet missiles over Canada

The inspiration for the signing of Charter 77 is most commonly credited as ___.

The arrest of members of a popular culture band

The “Iron Curtain” speech was given by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at ___.

The Palace of Westminster in London, England

The Truman Doctrine was an example of ___.

US economic aggression toward the USSR

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The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries

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Review of IB History Topic 12

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1
The series of liberal reforms that occurred in Czechoslovakia during 1968 is known as ___.
The Prague Spring
The Velvet Revolution
The Gulag Veterans Movement
Glastnost
2
____ said, “They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won,” after ___.
Nikita Khrushchev; the Cuban Missile Crisis
Harry S. Truman; the fall of Germany in World War II
Harry S. Truman; the success of the Berlin Airlift
ulie Phipps; receiving a B on a Ryan Chem test
3
Which country received the most aid from the Marshall Plan?
France
The United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
4
The X Article advocated the strategy of ___.
Guerrilla Warfare
Rollback Communism
Brinkmanship
Containment
5
An example of the political tactic known as brinkmanship is ___.
The role of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala
Nixon’s secret visits with Mao Zedong in the PRC
Preston Brooks’ caning of Charles Sumner
Massive retaliation
6
Members of the non-aligned movement included: ___.
Cuba, Northern Vietnam, and Denmark
Germany, Romania, and Yugoslavia
Egypt, Barbados, and Jordan
France, the United Kingdom and the United States
7
The Percentages Agreement was signed with the purpose of ___.
Dividing the Western section of Germany proportionally
Giving greater value to minor assessments in IB History
Limiting the manufacture of strategic nuclear arms
Determining the geographical future of Eastern Europe
8
The New Outer Ring Allied Democracy was formed with the intention of ___.
Tracking Santa, as JFK wished to share his Catholicism
Forming the Federal Republic of Germany.
Facilitating US interception of Soviet missiles over Canada
Reinvigorating NATO after France’s withdrawal in 1966
9
The United States Government spent close to ___ on the Bay of Pigs operation.
$50
$8 million
$5 million
$2 million
10
The inspiration for the signing of Charter 77 is most commonly credited as ___.
The arrest of members of a popular culture band
The increase in deaths by consumption of non-potable water
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The Soviet invasion
11
The “Iron Curtain” speech was given by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at ___.
Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri
The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia
The Palace of Westminster in London, England
The 1945 United Nations San Francisco Conference
12
The rollback strategy advocated direct intervention. Which was the Soviet equivalent?
De-Stalinization
Formation of satellite states
The Brezhnev Doctrine
Nuclear arms buildup
13
The number of African American war deaths in the Second Indochina War is ___ of the total.
24.9%
52.7%
12.5%
0.0%
14
The Chernobyl disaster contributed to each of the following EXCEPT ___.
The conclusion of the Cold War
The continued weakening of the Communist system
Nuclear pollution by radiation in Sweden
The deaths of a reported 31 civilians
15
The Truman Doctrine was an example of ___.
A threat of nuclear warfare
A document recovered from Truman’s early days as a preacher
An assertion against European colonization of the Americas
US economic aggression toward the USSR

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