Unit 10 Cold War and the End of Empires

The breakup of empires after WWII began with Britain’s most important colony; ______.

____, a policy of lessened Cold War tensions, replaced brinkmanship under President Nixon.

Who was the communist leader of the Vietnamese independence movement?

What European country was divided into zones of occupation following World War II?

What larger historical era was started by successful launch of the first satellite?

At Yalta, what did the Allies decide about the fate of Germany after the war ended?

What became the main US policy towards communism during the Cold War?

Who was the U.S. backed leader of South Vietnam at the beginning of the Vietnam conflict?

Shah Pahlavi was overthrown primarily because of his ______.

Name the first African nation to gain independence.

How many Americans died in Vietnam?

What modern nations were formed by the British partition of India?

In the first half of the 20th century, which European colonial power controlled Vietnam?

What organization was the primary voice for Arab-Palestinians in their conflicts with Israel?

What U.S. program provided aid to European nations to prevent the spread of communism?

This continent was still completely dominated by imperial powers at the end of WWII; ____.

What was the first man made satellite launched into orbit?

What do John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan have in common?

What country went from being a US ally to an enemy in early 1979?

What alliance was designed to protect Western Europe and North America from Soviet aggression?

The 1979 Iranian revolution caused a conflict with the U.S. by doing which of the following?

What eventually happened to the country of South Vietnam?

What alliance was designed to protect the Soviet Union from Western Aggression?

What was “dangerous and useless” under the philosophy of the Chinese “Cultural Revolution”?

The U.N. has succeeded in its mission to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”

The ___ consisted of developing nations, who were not aligned with either superpower.

The communist threat to Turkey and Greece led to the development of what U.S. foreign policy?

What was the cause of the Berlin Airlift?

Name the former US colony that gained independence on July 4th, 1946.

Name the man who led the independence movement in India for thirty years.

Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist revolution?

The practice of “Brinksmanship” was based upon the threat of the use of what?

What organization was formed to protect its members from international military aggression?

Which Soviet leader was known for his policy of “destalinization”?

Where did the USSR have a ‘Vietnam-like experience’ in the 1980s?

The Cold War crisis in which the world came closest to a nuclear war; _______.

What U.S. foreign policy was reflected in the American participation in the Korean War?

A communist revolution in this Latin American nation provoked confrontation with the US.

How many Arab-Israeli wars have been fought?

Why was the location of the war crimes trials significant to close the Nazi rule of Germany?

People who favored a Jewish national homeland in Palestine were known as ____.

The method used to charge and give trials to the Nazi leadership following World War II...

The former Dutch East Indies became the new country of _____.