WHII_13 Review

Question 1

She was known as "The Iron Lady" and pushed for less business regulation in Great Britain:

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Thatcher

Question 2

He liberalized the Chinese economy and introduced the "Four Modernizations"

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Deng Xiao Ping

Question 3

President who first introduced containment doctrine:

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Truman

Question 4

Leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War:

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Ho Chi Minh

Question 5

MAD stands for

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Mutually Assured Destruction

Question 6

Leader who spend too much on the military and started the soviet invasion of Afghanistan:

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Brezhnev

Question 7

Turning point that turned the US public against the war in Vietnam:

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Tet Offensive

Question 8

Which of the following represents attempted containment:

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more US involvement in Vietnam

Question 9

Indira Ghandi is most remembered for:

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Testing India's first nuclear weapon

Question 10

Which of the following was Gorbachev's attempts to create more openess in Soviet society?

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glasnost

Question 11

JFK forced the Soviet Union to remove nuclear weapons from this country:

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Cuba

Question 12

When blockading West Berlin failed, Stalin instead:

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Built the Berlin Wall

Question 13

The Cold War was a competition between:

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Democracy and Communism

Question 14

Which leader established an independent government on the Island of Taiwan

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Chiang Kai Shek

Question 15

Containment is associated with:

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Truman Doctrine

Question 16

Leader associated with Glasnost and Perestroika

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Gorbachev

Question 17

What major development occurred between the USA and USSR in the late 1980s?

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Both countries reduced their number of atomic weapons

Question 18

This military alliance guaranteed the peace and safety of Western Europe from Soviet :

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NATO

Question 19

The French were defeated in 1954 and lost their colonies in:

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Vietnam

Question 20

This alliance served as a Soviet response to NATO

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Warsaw Pact

Question 21

The idea that if Vietnam falls to communism then so will neighboring countries:

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Domino Theory

Question 22

Gorbachev's policy of allowing some private ownership of business:

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perestroika

Question 23

Leader who united China under communism by 1949:

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Mao Zedong

Question 24

North Vietnamese tactic to prolong the Vietnam War and harass American soldiers

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Guerilla

Question 25

The idea that a nation builds nuclear weapons as a threat but not to actually use:

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Deterence

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