Cold War Chapter 18 Review

Question 1

How did the Chinese attempt to rapidly reform agriculture and industry?

Accepted Answer

by creating communes

Question 2

What Allied effort provided food/supplies to the German capital during a 1947 Soviet blockade?

Accepted Answer

Berlin Airlift

Question 3

Who led the Communist Revolution in North Korea in 1950?

Accepted Answer

Kim Il Sung

Question 4

What group supported the Chinese communists because of the promise of land reform?

Accepted Answer

peasants

Question 5

What phrase did Churchill use to describe Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe?

Accepted Answer

iron curtain

Question 6

Who led the Communist revolution in China in 1946?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 7

Who led the Communist revolution in North Vietnam in 1954?

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Question 8

What Chinese reform led to uprisings and the torture of artists and intellectuals?

Accepted Answer

Cultural Revolution

Question 9

The idea that 1 nation becoming Communist would cause nearby nations to also fall to Communism

Accepted Answer

domino theory

Question 10

Alliance of the US, UK, West Germany, France, and other Western and democratic nations

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 11

Who led the Communist revolution in Cuba in 1959?

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 12

The Chinese Nationalists fled to this island after the Communist victory in 1949

Accepted Answer

Taiwan

Question 13

The US provided financial aid to help rebuild Europe after WW2; this was the

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 14

Which 2 nations were given US aid as part of the Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

Greece and Turkey

Question 15

What was the result of China's Great Leap Forward?

Accepted Answer

severe food shortages

Question 16

A war where 2 powerful nations use substitutes to fight each other

Accepted Answer

proxy war

Question 17

What was one effect of the Cold War arms race?

Accepted Answer

threat of nuclear war

Question 18

How did Stalin plan to defend the USSR from invasion after WW2?

Accepted Answer

by putting Communist gov'ts in Eastern Europe

Question 19

Which nation sent 1000s of troops to help North Korea during the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 20

Which alliance promoted the security of Communist, Eastern European nations?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Questions 20