What was the Berlin Airlift?

USA intervention to get vital supplies to W. Berlin by air

A competition between nations to build more powerful weapons

What was the policy of containment?

Keep communism out of all non-communist countries.

What did the Warsaw Pact countries do on the borders with Czechoslovakia in June 1968?

Move tanks and troops on the borders

What was the Berlin Blockade all about?

USSR stopped US access to West Berlin hoping they'd give up

WHY did relations decline after the period of detente ?

The USSR was trying to gain entrance into the Persian (US LAND), US president Jimmy Carter stopped SALT 2 which annoyed Stalin

What was the Truman Doctrine?

U.S. policy to support any country at risk of communist take over

What was the result of the Truman Doctrine 3/1947)?

$400 million from Congress goes to protecting Turkey/Greece

What was the Korean War?

A war between North and South Korea, A war between North Korea and the UN/South Korea

In 1987 the leaders of the S.U. and USA signed a disarmament agreement. What were their names?

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

One of the legacies of the Korean War was

The emergence of the idea of the communist monolith

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1
What was the ideology of the USSR?
equality over freedom
freedom over equality
2
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Truman's facelift plans using air technology
USA intervention to stop communism in Europe
USSR intervention to get vital supplies to W. Berlin by air
USA intervention to get vital supplies to W. Berlin by air
3
Which leader was at all 3 conferences?
Roosevelt
Atlee
Stalin
Churchill
4
Arms Race
People or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval
Public accusation of disloyalty, often without evidence
An agreement to stop all fighting
A competition between nations to build more powerful weapons
5
This ended detente.
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Vietnam War
Angolan Civil War
Korean War
6
Reagan and Gorbachev met three times in three years, with discussions focusing on?
space program collaborations
environmental issues
arts and cultural exchanges
arms reduction
7
After the nuclear arms race, what was the next “race” that developed?
The Space Race
The Haste Race
The "Race" Race
The Disgrace Race
8
Which of these were not a part of the arms race?
Nuclear bombs
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
MOABs
Hydrogen bombs
9
Which of these events were NOT occurring at the same time as the Space Race?
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Vietnam War
The Building of the Berlin Wall
The Korean War
10
What was the policy of containment?
Keep communism out of all Soviet countries.
Keep communism only out of Russia
Keep communism out of all non-communist countries.
Keep communism out of only America.
11
What did the Warsaw Pact countries do on the borders with Czechoslovakia in June 1968?
Told Brezhnev to close Czech borders
Move tanks and troops on the borders
Refused to let Czechs travel to their countries
Open borders to let Czech refugees in
12
What was the Berlin Blockade all about?
USSR stopped US access to West Berlin hoping they'd give up
USA stopping Russia from going in to Berlin
UK and France refusing to go Berlin anymore
Berliner's blocking US troops from entering West Berlin
13
WHY did relations decline after the period of detente ?
The USSR was trying to gain entrance into the Persian (US LAND)
Stalin stole all of Carters pens at the last conference
US president Jimmy Carter stopped speaking in public which annoyed Stalin
US president Jimmy Carter stopped SALT 2 which annoyed Stalin
14
In August 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by:
West Germany
Poland
China
The Soviet Union
15
what was the ideology of the USA ?
Equality over freedom
freedom over equality
16
What ended the Space Race?
Presiden Kennedy's assassination
The moon landing
Sputnik 3's launch
Woody and Buzz finally setting aside their differences
17
This Soviet leader favored a policy of peaceful coexistence with the US
Joseph Stalin
Leonid Breshnev
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Krushchev
18
Which of the following was NOT a policy of Ronald Reagan?
SDI ("Star Wars")
Reagan Doctrine
supply-side economics
affirmative action
19
Detente refers to the...
Relaxation of tension
None of the above
Increase of tension
Absence of tension
20
What was the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. policy to support any country at risk of communist take over
U.S. policy to declare nuclear war on USSR
money to support any country at risk of capitalist take over
militia to support any country at risk of communist take over
21
What did the Berlin Wall do?
Divide USSR and China
Divide East and West Germany
Divide UST (Trump) and Mexico
Divide East and West Berlin
22
The goal of the Soviet Union was to?
Contain Communisum
Spread Communism
23
What was the result of the Truman Doctrine 3/1947)?
Truman meets with Stalin to warn him about communism in W.G.
Truman declares official Cold War on Stalin
Truman declares $5 billion to the protection of Bizonia
$400 million from Congress goes to protecting Turkey/Greece
24
This crushed the Prague Spring in 1968...
Warsaw Troops
None of the above
Soviet tanks
Communist Reforms
25
The policy of public frankness andaccountability created in the USSR under Gorbachev is called
Terrorism
Glasnost
Camp David Accords
Apartheid
26
What were the two superpowers of the cold war?
US and USSR
America and Japan
Soviets and Vietnam
Australia and Korea
27
What was the Korean War?
A war between North and South Korea
A war between Britain and US
A war between North Korea and the UN/South Korea
A war between Afghanistan and Israel
28
This led to the collapse of communism in the USSR...
All of the above
Poor economy
Reforms
Rise of Nationalist feelings
29
What was found in Cuba in October 1962 by U.S. spy planes?
Atomic Bombs
Nuclear Missiles
Death Camps
POW Camps
30
The USA wanted detente...
For economic reasons
none of the above
To get China's help in ending Vietnam
all of the above
31
13 day confrontation in October 1962 between Soviet Union and Cuba
Russian Missile Crisis
Canada Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
'Merican Missile Crisis
32
__________ placed missiles in Cuba in 1962.
Sovet Onion
Sacred Onion
Starred Union
Soviet Union
33
this policy embraced peaceful coexistence
Truman Doctrine
detente
brinkmanship
McCarthyism
34
In 1987 the leaders of the S.U. and USA signed a disarmament agreement. What were their names?
Jimmy Carter and Boris Jelzin.
Margareth Thatcher and Vlad the Impaler.
George Bush and Leonid Breshnev.
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
35
The USSR wanted detente...
None of the above
All of the above
For economic reasons
out of fear of a Sino-American alliance
36
Who won the Space Race?
Russia
The United States
37
What are the names of the 2 conferences?
The Yalta and Potsdam.
The Potsdam and Malta.
The Arcadia and Malta.
The Yalta and Arcadia.
38
One of the legacies of the Korean War was
The UN was exposed as a weak and ineffective organization
It weakened the President's authority as Commander-in-Chief
The failure of containment as a way of combating communism
The emergence of the idea of the communist monolith
39
One of Gorbachev's reforms was called perestroika. What did this mean?
Glasnost
Openness
Restructuring
The end of the Brezhnev Doctrine

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