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1
What was the communist solution to East Berliners escaping to the West?
sending the first man into space
signing a pact combining the European communist states
crossing the 38th parallel
building a wall of concrete and barbed wire
2
The Truman Doctrine represented a
new approach to Latin American affairs
desire to aid Asia in its economic recovery
departure from the policy of isolationism for the US
return to isolationism for the US
3
Supreme Allied commander in Europe who coordinated D-Day.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Patton
George Montgomery
MacArthur
4
Term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the US & Soviet Union at end of WW-2.
containment
detente
cold war
Berlin Blockade
5
Group/alliance that consisted of Eastern European nations dominated by the Soviet Union.
UN
ANZIO
NATO
Warsaw Pact
6
Defensive military alliance the United States joined after WW-2.
UNAF
Warsaw Pact
NATO
UNICEF
7
What event put Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House?
assassination of John F. Kennedy
Outbreak of war in Vietnam
Russian transfer of power from Khrushchev to Brezhnev
Creation of the Berlin Wall
8
How did Fidel Castro betray the U.S.?
he placed a quarantine on US weapons shipments
He took back his promise of free elections in Cuba
He ordered spy plane missions in US airspace
he overthrew the dictator of Cuba
9
Who became leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin?
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
Leonid Brezhnev
Gregory Malenkov
10
What saved citizens of Berlin after Stalin blockaded their city?
the Yalta Conference
the spread of communism
Western airlift of supplies
the Iron Curtain