Cold War

Question 1

The Soviets completed their first test of an atomic bomb in

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1949

Question 2

In return for America removing nuclear weapons from Turkey, the USSR agreed to

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not invade Turkey and remove nuclear missiles from Cuba

Question 3

The Berlin Wall

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was built to keep East Germans out of West Berlin.

Question 4

How did the USSR respond when their satellites flirted with democratic reforms in the 50s & 60s

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brutally crushed them

Question 5

A six day nuclear crisis occurred in the early 1960s when the Soviets put nuclear missiles in

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Cuba

Question 6

What separated the democratic western Europe from the communist eastern Europe?

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Iron Curtain

Question 7

Instead of simply using atomic weapons to stop the spread of communism, America preferred

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containment

Question 8

Who coined the phrase "iron curtain?"

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Winston Churchill

Question 9

How did the US and Britain respond when the Soviets blockaded Berlin?

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they flew in supplies around the clock

Question 10

Who did the Americans support both financially & militarily when the USSR invaded Afghanistan?

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Bid Laden and the mujahideen

Question 11

The United States bested the Soviets in which of the following events during the "space race?"

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first man on the moon

Question 12

What initiated the Korean War?

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Communist North Korea invaded South Korea.

Question 13

Why could pilots in Vietnam not shoot SAM missiles while they were being constructed?

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Soviet engineers might be working on them

Question 14

How many occupation zones was both Berlin and Germany as a whole divided into?

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four

Question 15

The defensive military alliance between the Soviet Union and her satellite countries was called

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the Warsaw Pact

Question 16

How were military goods transported from North Vietnam into South Vietnam?

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along the Ho Chi Minh trail

Question 17

The Truman doctrine allocated money for which countries to keep them from becoming communist?

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Greece, Turkey

Question 18

A defensive military alliance between Western Europe, Canada & the United States

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NATO

Question 19

Eastern European nations that were controlled politically and economically by the Soviet Union

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satellite nations

Question 20

Which would be seen as a victory of communism over democratic capitalism?

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The Vietnam War

Question 21

Countries that were not aligned with either the US or the USSR during the Cold War were called

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Third World

Question 22

Who were the South Vietnamese communists who fought using guerilla tactics?

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Vietcong

Question 23

The Soviet policy allowing more freedom of expression and voicing frustrations with the govt.

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glasnost

Question 24

Countries aligned with the United States during the Cold War were known as

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First World

Question 25

All of the following were problems in the communism economic system EXCEPT

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a diverse selection of options for soviet consumers to buy.

Question 26

Which American President did not participate in the Cold War?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 27

Who were the two main superpowers during the Cold War?

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the United States and the Soviet Union

Question 28

When you see a flash brighter than anything you have ever seen before, brighter than the sun...

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you should "duck and cover."

Question 29

The belief that if one nation fell to communism, all of the neighboring countries would as well

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domino theory

Question 30

During the Cold War, the US and the USSR didn't fight each other directly, instead fighting

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proxy wars

Question 31

Countries aligned with the Soviet Union during the Cold War were known as

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Second World

Question 32

The Marshall Plan gave money to European countries to rebuild their economies. The catch was

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they had to spend the money on American goods.

Question 33

Financial aid packages given to eastern European nations by the Soviet Union was part of the

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Molotov Plan.

Question 34

Who was known for the reform policies Glasnost and Perestroika?

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 35

Who followed Josef Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union?

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Nikita Khrushchev

Question 36

Economic reforms that were brought to the Soviet Union in the late 1980s were known as

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perestroika

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