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HWH Cold War
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Leader of the Chinese Communist revolution
Jiang
Hirohito
Sun yat-sin
Mao
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What event caused Eisenhower and Khrushchev to cancel a planned summit meeting?
U-2 incident
building of Berlin wall
Berlin blockade
Bay of Pigs invasion
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The President of the USA known for Detente.
Reagan
Nixon
Truman
Kennedy
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Which event brought the period of Detente to an end?
the failure of SALT II
U-2 incident
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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President of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Michael Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Putin
Boris Yeltsin
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First man in space
Gagarin
Armstrong
Glenn
Yeltsin
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The Truman Doctrine was used to stop the spread of communism in
East Berlin
Italy & France
Vietnam & Korea
Greece & Turkey
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The closest the world ever came to nuclear war was during the
Berlin crisis
Korean War
U2 incident
Cuban Missile Crisis
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US President often credited with ending the Cold War
Kennedy
Reagan
Truman
Nixon
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How did the US respond to the Soviet Missiles in Cuba?
ordered a blockade of Cuba
stationed new missiles in Turkey to threatened the USSR
Carried out air strikes to attack the missile sites
sent forces into Cuba to dismantle the missiles
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The Cold War took place between
1945-1991
1941-1959
1960-1975
1933-1982
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What power do the five permanent nations on the UN Security Council have?
two votes on major issues
power of financial decisions
veto power
they decide who will be members of the Security Council
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What was the name of the military alliance of USSR and Eastern Europe?
Solidarity
Triple Entente
Warsaw Pact
NATO
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Which is true of "de-Stalinization"?
all of these
Stalingrad was renamed
Khrushchev openly criticized Stalin
Stalin's body was removed from public display
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Leader of the USSR when the Soviet Union dissolved and the Cold War ended.
Gorbachev
Breshnev
Khrushchev
Stalin
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The purpose of NATO was
guarantee that the USSR maintain nuclear superiority
mutual defensive alliance between US & allies
fund space exploration
supervise decisions of the UN
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The main US foreign policy after WWII was known as
conservatism
control and conquer
containment
liberalism
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What is the status of Korea today?
divided into two separate nations
united under democratic control
split and controlled by Russia and Japan
united under Communist rule
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Soviet leader who lost power after the Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev
Breshnev
Gorbechev
Stalinev
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US space missions that went to the moon were know as ____ missions.
Gemini
Apollo
Mercury
Sputnik
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What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
thousands of pigs were slaughtered for food
USA sponsored an invasion of Cuba
Castro was captured and overthrown
Communist forces overthrew the Cuban gov't
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In the 1970s it seemed that the Cold War tension was easing. This was known as
sputnik
perestroika
detente
solidarity
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President of the US at the beginning of the Cold War.
Eisenhower
FDR
Kennedy
Truman
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Where was the city of Berlin located?
East Germany
West Germany
USSR
Poland
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East Berlin and East Germany were controlled by
Poland
USA
Britain
USSR
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the US fought unsuccessfully to stop the spread of communism between 1964-1973 in
Berlin
Vietnam
Afghanistan
Korea
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What does MAD stand for?
Money All Day
Mutually Assured Destruction
Military Atomic Detonation
More Atomic Defense
28
Term used by Churchill to describe the division of Europe after WWII
MAD
Cash and Carry
Domino theory
Iron Curtain
29
Led revolution and took control of Cuba in 1959.
Boris Yeltsin
Fidel Castro
Aldolf Hitler
Robert Kennedy
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What program tried to rebuild Europe's economy and prevent the spread of communism?
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
NATO
United Nations
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He was the first man to walk on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Lightyear
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shepherd
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What is Solidarity?
Polish labor union that helped overthrow communism
Reagan's proposed missile defense system
East German company that constructed the wall
an alliance between the US and her European allies
33
What happened when Poland and Hungary rebelled against Soviet control in the 1950's?
the Soviet military brutally crushed the rebellions
The US and UN sent money and troops
Soviets airlifted supplies and food it
their success led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall was built
around East Berlin
between East and West Germany
around West Berlin
just inside the Iron Curtain
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Wars around the world where the US and the USSR supported opposite sides were known as
warm wars
pretend wars
phony wars
proxy wars
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What nation gave direct military aid to North Korea?
Japan
China
USSR
USA
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What was Sputnik?
the first man made satellite in space
Soviet plan for controlling Eastern Europe
the US space mission to go to the moon
the name of the USSR's first atomic bomb
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How did the US respond to Stalin's decision to blockade Berlin?
sent military aid to Greece and Turkey
provided a massive airlift of supplies
threatened the use of nuclear weapons
built a wall around West Berlin
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US president during Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Truman
Nixon
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What is "glasnost"?
a manned Soviet space program
a Soviet labor union
increased democracy in the USSR
a period of improved relations
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What was "perestroika"?
a Czech uprising for freedom
economic restructuring
Gorbachev's resignation
a soviet spy plane
