End of WWII-End of Cold War

Eisenhower’s Secretary of State was

There was considerable backlash against Charter 77 mainly because Czechoslovakia had a strict communist leader in power

Why was the US only able to offer money and supplies to the French in 1950 during their fight with the Vietminh?

Which of the following would be most likely to accept money from the Marshall Plan?

All of the following impelled the US to end Jacobo Arbenz Guzman’s rule in Guatemala except when he

The Truman Doctrine was the result of

The policy of Perestroika refers to

Operation Ryan led the US to believe that the Soviets were planning a nuclear strike leading to the Able Archer crisis

Russia supported India in its 1959 clash with China concerned that a victorious China would increase its power.

Why did Diem cancel the election in Vietnam in 1957 that was supposed to occur three years earlier?

At the end of the Second Taiwan Straight Crisis,

One of the most important factors allowing a ceasefire to be called in the Korean War was that

Vietnamization

Why was the Marshall Plan eventually abandoned?

The Tet offensive marked a major turning point in the Vietnam War because

The relationship between China and the Soviet Union became much worse after Khrushchev took over for Brezhnev.

Dubbed the “Velvet Revolution” because of its peaceful nature, the successful 1989 uprising was in _____

Which President oversaw the assassination of Diem, or at least didn’t try to stop it?

The policy of Glasnost refers to

Following the removal of the Japanese from the Korean peninsula, the US supported ______ as the leader in the South

All of the following allowed the Republicans to win the mid-term election of 1946 and capture Congress except

Soviet leaders, in order after Khrushchev, were Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko

Idea to remove the president from some of the decision-making that went into some CIA ‘questionable’ activities

The explosion at Chernobyl

As the Solidarity movement grew in Poland in the early 1980s, Moscow did not intervene to suppress the group because

During the reconversion of the economy following WWII, what concern arose when factory workers went on strike?

Kennan’s Long Telegram claimed the Soviets were hostile to the West, leading to the adoption of the Containment policy.

After Khrushchev visited the US in 1959, Mao began looking for "true" Marxist allies, eventually finding one in

When Gorbachev told the Warsaw Pact nations to take their own path forward in 1987, he was effectively rescinding

One reason people questioned the power of the UN after the Korean War was because

Many people have suspected that Truman’s surprise victory in 1948 was due to

Eisenhower’s adoption of the New Look Policy meant that

When Churchill and FDR signed the Atlantic Charter, the US was involved in WW II, after recently declaring war on Japan.

All of the following contributed to the US participating in the Korean War except

All of the following were passed during LBJ’s presidency except

While many of the 1989 uprisings were peaceful, that was certainly not the case in Nicolae Ceausescu’s

Following the Bay of Pigs invasion,

Which of the following was supported by Mikhail Gorbachev?

After Erich Honecker was forced to resign his post, free travel was soon allowed between

The last-ditch effort coup and kidnapping by Soviet hardliners failed because

Resistance to communism in Poland in the 1980s focused on the refusal to allow non-governmental labor unions

All of the following are true about the McCarthy era except

It upset Stalin when Allies attacked German forces in N. Africa and Italy before attacking the western front in Europe.

What did Reagan launch the largest peacetime buildup of in American history to force negotiations?

Although Nixon’s Shanghai Communique offered many concessions, he refused to accept the “One-China” proposal.

With the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Congress, in effect,

Initially hidden, the Chernobyl explosion gained world-wide attention after Finland discovered nuclear fallout

The collapse of the Soviet economy was due to

Reagan followed the foreign policy of

The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that

Following the lead of E. European nations, many of the Soviet Socialist Republics such as ___ also started to break away

All of the following were important outcomes of the Cuban Missile Crisis except

The Alliance for Progress was considered a failure mainly because

Sino-American relations improved after Nixon opened unofficial diplomatic channels through intermediaries in Poland

The relationship between US and USSR was not helped after Reagan referred to the USSR as the ___ in a 1983 speech.

Many in the Soviet politburo initially applauded when Mikhail Gorbachev took over the leadership of the USSR because

What incited Mao to stick Khrushchev in a cruddy, dilapidated house during his 1958 visit?

What is the Military-Industrial Complex?

All of the following were obstacles to JFK getting legislation passed in Congress except

The Clifford-Elsey Report did all of the following except

Truman felt he had no choice but to fire Douglas MacArthur after

One outcome of the Able Archer 83 incident was that it

As part of his Great Society program, LBJ declared war on

Churchill and FDR considered it a victory when Stalin agreed to allow open elections in E. Europe at the war’s end

One of the problems between China and USSR centered on the Soviet’s refusal to share nuclear secrets with the Chinese

After Stalin died, Mao softened his official stance towards the US but all he really wanted was