Cold War Revision

Question 1

What is the impact of Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to limit nuclear tests, eased the nuclear arms race, brink of nuclear war, agreed to set up a direct communication system

Question 2

What is the purpose of Molotov Plan (1947)?

Accepted Answer

tighten control over the satellite states, to counter-balance the Marshall Plan

Question 3

What anti-Soviet policies did Reagan (US president) implement?

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expand US forces, deploy missile in Eruopean Countries, Star War programme, provide military aid to Afghanistan

Question 4

What happened Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) ?

Accepted Answer

the Soviet Union secretly deployed missiles in Cuba

Question 5

How did Berlin Blockade happen ?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union closed all land and water routes into West Berlin

Question 6

What happened in the first Detente?

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new leaders came into power and adjusted their foreign policies, US and Soviet both developed the hydrogen bomb still, Eisenhower would like to prevent a nuclear war

Question 7

What is the Glasnost (political reform) about?

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introduced open election

Question 8

What Gorbachev changes in diplomatic policies?

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sign treaty about disarmament, scientific and technological cooperation

Question 9

What led to the end of Cold War?

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Gorbachev's reform

Question 10

What are the impacts of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

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US imposed sanctions against Soviet, US refused to approve SALT II

Question 11

Why did the Soviet Union dissolve?

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People lost confidence in Gorbachev, Russia establish CIS (commonwealth of Independent states), Gorbachev resigned as Soviet President, The August Coup as the Gorbachev's reform failed

Question 12

What is the purpose of Marshall Plan (1947)?

Accepted Answer

to provide economic aid to European countries.

Question 13

What happened in U2 Incident?

Accepted Answer

Since 1956, American spy planes had been spying on the Soviet Union

Question 14

Why did Soviet invasion of Afghanistan happen?

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a communist regime was established in Afghanistan and opposed by Muslim., US sent troop to support the Muslims

Question 15

The Cold War is between opposing camps:

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United States and the Soviet Union

Question 16

What are the impacts of the Berlin Blockade?

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West Germany is formed, the United States, Britain and France merged their German occupation zones, NATO formed, it could station troops and deploy missiles in member states., East Germany is formed in 1949

Question 17

What is the impact of the Korean War?

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The Korean Peninsula was still divided after the war, US stationing American soldiers in South Korea

Question 18

What is the Perestroika (economic reform) about?

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Withdraw the missile and garrison in E. Europe

Question 19

What were the E. European nations liberated from the control of the Soviet?

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E. European nations grow nationalism, E. European nations hope to improve relations with the West to trade

Question 20

What is the significance of the Vietnam War?

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US sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union and China

Question 21

What marked the continuation of the Cold war iun 1960?

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the U-2 Incident

Question 22

What happened in the Second Detente?

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Mutual Visits between US and Soviet, US lifted the embargo in Soviet, Agreement were signbed to strengthen cooperation in Space tech, trade etc

Question 23

What is the impact of the U2 Incident?

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Khrushchev refused to discuss international affairs with Eisenhower again.

Question 24

What is the significance of the Berlin Blockade?

Accepted Answer

NATO is formed

Question 25

What is the purpose of the Truman Doctrine

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To help countries that were threatened by communism.

Question 26

What were the war time differences between Soviet and US?

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Soviet wanted to establish pro-Soviet communist regime in E. Europe, US proposed of building a democratic election in Eastern Europe

Question 27

What is the impact of Berlin Crisis?

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further worsened American-Soviet relations.

Question 28

the United States is ___________ bloc while the Soviet Union led the ___________ bloc

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capitalist, communist

Question 29

What is Helsinki Agreement?

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to promote cooperation between two blocs, NATO and Warsaw sign it, to respect each other's sovereignty, To resolve dispute and To safeguard human rights

Question 30

What is the impact of the Gorbachev's policy?

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It ends the armament race

Question 31

What happened in the Berlin Crisis?

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the US and the Soviet sent tank troops and confronted at a checkpoint, the Soviet Union build a wall around West Berlin

Question 32

What is the purpose of the Iron Curtain Speech?

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Western countriesshould unite to stop Soviet expansion.

Question 33

Why did Berlin Blockade happen ?

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the Soviet Union felt threatened by West Berlin

Question 34

What is Geneva Summit?

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discussed the issues of global security, armaments reduction

Question 35

Why did Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) happen?

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communist government. in Cuba to be pro-Soviet Union

Question 36

Which nations were liberated from Soviet control in 1989 to 1991?

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Poland, Czecvhoslovakioa, Albania

Question 37

Why did Berlin Crisis happen?

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East Germans escaped to West Berlin to seek freedom and a better life

Question 38

What are the ideological differences between Capitalism and communism?

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Capitalist: free market economy, communist: planned economy

Question 39

long-standing mistrust between US and Soviet is caused by:

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United States concealed the development of the atomic bomb, The signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in the late 1930s

Question 40

In the first detente, what did Khrushche advocate?

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the peaceful coexistence of communism and capitalism.

Question 41

What is the Gorbachev's reforms about?

Accepted Answer

Perestroika (economic) and Glasnost (political)

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