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Chapter 17 Restructuring the Post War World
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
Failed attempt of US troops invading Cuba
The successful communist revolt by Fidel Castro
Failed attempt of Cuban exiles trained by US to invade Cuba
Failed attempt of Cuban exiles trained by USSR to enter Cuba
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Which countries were formed from Indochina?
India, China and present day Russia
Vietnam, South Korea and North Korea
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Vietnam, Taiwan and South Korea
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What is Brinkmanship?
Willingness to go the the edge of war
Communist guerrilla fighters
Movement to build society of peasants and workers
Border separating North and South Korea
4
What countries made up NATO?
The USSR and Western European countries
The USSR and Eastern European countries
The US and Eastern European countries
The US and Western European countries
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What is SALT?
Leader of the USSR after Stalin dies
Leader of the revolt in Cuba
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Agreement to limit the number of nuclear weapons
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Who won the Vietnam War?
Cambodia
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Japan
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What is the 38th Parallel?
Border separating North and South Korea
Chinese Communist leader
Movement to build society of peasants and workers
Communist guerrilla fighters
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What happened in Iran?
There was a civil war
They gained their independence
The Shah lead Iran to communism
The Shah "westernized" Iran with support from the US
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What is the "Iron Curtain"?
US plan to rebuild the Western European countries
Barrier dividing Europe in half
Alliance between the US and Western Europe
Alliance between the USSR and Eastern Europe
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Who is Mao Zedong
Communist guerrilla fighters
Chinese Communist leader
Movement to build society of peasants and workers
The willingness to go to the edge of war
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What is the Warsaw Pact?
Alliance between the US and Western Europe
Alliance between the USSR and Eastern Europe
US plan to help states reject communism
Barrier dividing Europe in half
12
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Leader of the USSR after Stalin dies
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Agreement to limit number of nuclear weapons
Leader of the revolt in Cuba
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Who are the Vietcong?
Communist guerrilla fighters
Border separating North and South Korea
Chinese Communist leader
Movement to build society of peasants and workers
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What was the Berlin Wall?
A wall that divided Germany in two
A fake wall that divided Europe
A fake wall that divided the USSR
A wall that divided Berlin in two
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Cuba received missiles from USSR for money
The USSR put missiles in Cuba aimed at the US
Cuba produced their own nuclear missiles
Cuba revived missiles from the US and pointed them at USSR
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What is the Cultural Revolution?
Movement to build society of peasants and workers
Communist guerrilla fighters
Border separating North and South Korea
Chinese Communist leader
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Who won the Korean War?
Japan
South Korea
Nobody, because both sides called a cease fire
North Korea
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Who is John F. Kennedy (JFK)?
President who increased US involvement in Vietnam
Leader of the revolt in Cuba
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Leader of the USSR after Stalin dies
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What is the Marshall Plan?
Alliance between the US and Western Europe
Alliance between the USSR and Eastern Europe
Barrier dividing Europe in half
US plan to rebuild Western European countries
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What happened in Nicaragua in 1990?
They became a communist country
They gained their independence
They held their first free elections
There was a civil war
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What is NATO?
Alliance between the US and Western Europe
Alliance between the USSR and Eastern Europe
US plans to help states reject communism
Barrier dividing Europe in half
22
What countries make up the Warsaw Pact?
The USSR and Eastern European countries
The USSR and Western European countries
The US and Eastern European countries
The US and Western European countries
23
What was
Sputnik
?
First unmanned satellite launched into space by the US
First manned satellite launched into space by the US
First unmanned satellite launched into space by the USSR
First manned satellite launched into space by the USSR
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Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Leader of the USSR after Stalin dies
President who increased US involvement in Vietnam
Leader of the revolt in Cuba
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What was the Space Race?
Race between US and USSR to reach space first
Race between US and Great Britain to reach space first
Race between Korea and USSR to reach space first
Race between China and USSR to reach space first
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What was the Berlin Airlift?
The US bombed Berlin
US dropped care packages into Berlin to help West Berlin
US sent supplies to all Western European countries
US dropped care packages into Berlin to help East Berlin
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Who won the Space Race?
Soviet Union
Great Britain
United States
China
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What is the Truman Doctrine?
Alliance between the US and Western Europe
Alliance between the USSR and Eastern Europe
US plan to help states reject communism
Barrier dividing Europe in half
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The theory that if one country falls to communism, more countries will also fall is
detente
Domino Theory
containment
the Berlin Wall
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Who is Fidel Castro?
Leader of the revolt in Cuba
President who increased US involvement in Vietnam
Leader of the USSR after Stalin dies
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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What happened in Cambodia in 1975?
Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge
All of the above
There was a genocide of 2 million people
They became a communist country
