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Unit 8 (Cold War)
Unit 8 (Cold War)
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Soviet policy; economic restructuring
Detente
Glasnost
Containment
Perestroika
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A symbol of the division between East & West and the Cold War fear of communism
The Suez Canal
Berlin Blockade
The Great Wall
Iron curtain
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China had border & ideological disputes with
USSR
Mongolia
Japan
Korea
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The Eisenhower Doctrine was used to justify American intervention in
Latin America
The Middle East
Korea
Vietnam & Cambodia
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A failed American-backed invasion & coup in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sandinista Uprising
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Blockade
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A nation not allied with NATO or the Warsaw Pact nations
Third World
Second World
First World
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Why did the Soviet Union want to keep Germany divided?
To keep them weak so they couldn't attack again
To weaken their previously strong economy
To discourage Turkey's alliance with the US
To strengthen Russia's claim on Poland
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What is the timespan of the Cold War?
1945-1990
1938-1945
1945-1966
1960-1991
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First leader of Communist China
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Il-Sung
Mao Zedong
Zhou Enlai
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Purpose of this organization was to defend its members in the event of an attack
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
SEATO
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Which event marked a turning point in American opinion about the Vietnam War?
Gulf of Tonkin incident
My Lai Massacre
Tet Offensive
Fall of Saigon
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Includes the Soviet Union, its satellite states, and Warsaw Pact nations
Second World
Third World
First World
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Mao's Cult of Personality represents which Cold War strategy?
Espionage
Brinkmanship
Proxy War
Propaganda
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Going to the edge of war to see who will backdown first
Espionage
Alliances
Proxy war
Brinkmanship
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2 nations that previously colonized Indochina (Vietnam)
USA & Japan
Britain & Japan
Germany & France
France & Japan
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The US provided weapons to the Mujahideen during the
Korean War
Iranian Revolution
Vietnam War
Soviet-Afghan War
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Nation invaded by Warsaw Pact members because they wanted democratic reforms
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Romania
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A success of the containment policy
Six-Day War
Vietnam War
Cuban Revolution
Korean War
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Soviet policy; purpose was to end censorship & encourage people to talk openly about the country's problems
Perestroika
Containment
Detente
Glasnost
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Which event was the decisive victory in the Space Race?
John Glenn orbits the earth
Soviet launch of Sputnik 1
Apollo 11 moon landing
Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth
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Which nation committed genocide, killing about 1/3 of its own people?
Cambodia
Vietnam
Laos
China
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Why is it called a Cold War?
Relations between US & USSR were frosty
People questioned global warming
The world was in a mini-ice age
There were no real wars in this time
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A lessening of Cold War tensions
Glasnost
Detente
Perestroika
SALT
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What was used to prevent East Germans from escaping to the West?
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade
The KGB
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A failure of the policy of containment
Korean War
Vietnam War
Soviet-Afghan War
Berlin Wall
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The main ideological difference during the Cold War
Capitalism vs. Traditionalism
Catholicism vs. Protestantism
Democracy vs. Monarchy
Capitalism vs. Communism
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How did the Warsaw Pact differ from NATO
Their goal was to attack other nations, rather than to defend themselves
There were more countries in the Warsaw Pact
It focused on developing nuclear weapons for all members
Used by Soviets to keep satellite states under control
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Most directly lead to the creation of NATO
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Hungarian Revolution
Berlin Blockade
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US policy: if any nation in Southeast Asia falls to communism, so too will the other nations in the region
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Domino Theory
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An example of brinkmanship
U2 spy plane incident
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
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Leader of North Korea during Cold War
Kim Il-Sung
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
Zhou Enlai
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Leader of the Soviet Union who denounced Stalin's most extreme policies
Nikita Kruschchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The US, Western Europe, NATO, anyone who embraced democracy & capitalism
Third World
Second World
First World
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Nations achieving independence & dismantling existing colonial systems
Decolonization
Revolution
Uprising
Spring
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A nation most likely included in the Second World
Poland
Japan
West Germany
Greece
