Question 1

What was the Iron Curtain?

Accepted Answer

Division between Eastern and Western Europe

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A wall the separated East Germany from West Germany

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Blockage of Wester Germany, cutting off supply lines

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Aid to nations that needed to rebuild after WWII

Question 2

What was the Berlin Airlift?

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Allies flying supplies into West Germany

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Deconstructing buildings from Berlin to rebuild in Western European countries

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Allies flying supplies into East Germany

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Allies lifting hostages from West Berlin

Question 3

What is the name of the military alliance between the US and Western European nations during the Cold War?

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NATO

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Truman Doctrine

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Warsaw Pact

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UN

Question 4

What was Mao Zedong's plan to expand the economic success in China in 1958?

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The Great Leap Forward

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Five-Year Plan

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The Cultural Revolution

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The Long March

Question 5

Nikita Khrushchev succeeded which Soviet leader in 1953?

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Joseph Stalin

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Vladimir Lenin

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Vladimir Putin

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Leonid Brezhnev

Question 6

What international peacekeeping organization formed in 1945 that created Cold War alliances?

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The United Nations

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The Warsaw Pact

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Appeasement Organization

Question 7

Who did the United States support in the Chinese Civil War?

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Jiang Jieshi / Nationalists

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Mao Zedong / Communists

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Jiang Jieshi / Communsits

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Mao Zedong / Nationalists

Question 8

Nuclear war and communism were threats during which war?

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The Cold War

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Chinese Civil War

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WWII

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WWI

Question 9

China split with which country in the late 1980s after no longer wishing to follow in their Communist footsteps?

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The Soviet Union

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Japan

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Czechoslovakia

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East Germany

Question 10

How did Douglas MacArthur assist the fight in South Korea?

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Led UN intervention

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Trained anti-Korean exiles to invade

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Dropped an H-bomb

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He did not assist in any way

Question 11

What was the Warsaw Pact?

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Alliances with the USSR in response to NATO

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International peacekeeping organization

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A nonaggression pact

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Alliances with the US in response to NATO

Question 12

The Soviet Union attempted to take over land in Korea by providing what kind of assistance?

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Military units and money

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Food and water

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Just money

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Just troops

Question 13

What did the change in leadership of the Soviet Union lead to?

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End of the Cold War

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Berlin Airlift

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Dropping of an H-bomb

Question 14

What did the Truman Doctrine say about communism in regards to democracy?

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Communism threatened democracy

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Democracy will dominate over communism

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Democracy threatened communism

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Communism will dominate over democracy

Question 15

What are the components of the Truman Doctrine?

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Containment & aid to nations fighting communism

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Access to oil fields

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Division of Eastern and Western Europe

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Appeasement with the Soviet Union

Question 16

Which superpower wished to control Eastern Europe after WWII?

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The Soviet Union

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China

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Japan

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The United States

Question 17

President Nixon was the first US president to do what with Communist China in 1972?

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Visit the People's Republic of China

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Sign a Treaty of Friendship

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Host the President of China at the White House

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Appear on a live broadcast with Chinese officials

Question 18

The world feared the threat of nuclear war after what crisis in 1962?

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Berlin Crisis of 1961

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The 1956 Suez Crisis

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Iranian Hostage Crisis

Question 19

One nuclear crisis after another led to the abandonment of which Cold War policy?

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Brinkmanship

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Appeasement

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Détente

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Nonaggression

Question 20

What was the name of the rebel group of guerilla fighters in Vietnam

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Vietcong

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Mujahideen

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Red Army

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Al-Qaeda

Question 21

What was the Berlin Wall?

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Physical separation of East and West Berlin

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The wall surrounding West Berlin, cut off supplies into West Berlin

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The border around Berlin's perimeter

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Metaphoric division between Eastern and Western Europe

Question 22

What act was passed in 1972 that limited the number of missiles and missile sites in the Soviet Union and United States?

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SALT I

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Helsinki Accords

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SDI

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SALT II

Question 23

Who was Fidel Castro?

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Cuban dictator

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Leader of Cuban exiles

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Soviet puppet leader in Cuba

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Cuban army commander

Question 24

What is the name of the group of rebel forces in Afghanistan?

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Mujahideen

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Al-Qaeda

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Vietcong

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ISIS

Question 25

What was the solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Take USSR missiles out of Cuba and US missiles out of Turkey

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Decrease number of USSR missiles in Cuba

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Pay US to keep Cuban missile site operating

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Turn Cuban missiles over to the US

Question 26

What is destalinization?

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The purging of Stalin's memory from Russia

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Decreasing Stalin's role in the Cold War

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Taking Soviet troops out of satellite countries

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Increasing Soviet influence around the world

Question 27

What is containment?

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Stopping the spread of communism

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One nation falling to communism would lead to surrounding nations to fall too

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Preventing trade between Communist countries and the United States

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Stopping the spread of democracy

Question 28

What is brinkmanship?

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Going to the edge of war

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An alliance between enemies

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Fighting using all means necessary

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Decreasing Cold War tensions

Question 29

What is Vietnamization?

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Gradually pulling US troops from Vietnam

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War between the Vietnamese and the Soviet Union

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Inserting US troops into Vietnam

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Purging of Vietnamese influence

Question 30

What  is a Cold War?

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Fear, distrust, and hostility between countries caused by a difference in ideologies

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A war fought within ones own country

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Physical, guerilla warfare

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A war fought in cold places

Question 31

What is the Warsaw Pact?

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A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations

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A nonaggression treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland

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An international peacekeeping organization

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A military alliance formed by the US and Western European nations

Question 32

What is the domino theory?

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The fear of one nation falling to communism will cause surrounding nations to fall to communism

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Fighting in one nation leads to war in the surrounding nations

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Resisting communism is played like a game

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A strategic military plan to maximize resistance efforts

Question 33

What is the Marshall Plan?

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US aid to nations to rebuild after WWII

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Containing the spread of communism

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Policy of reducing Cold War tensions

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US aid to nations to rebuild after the Cold War

Question 34

What is détente?

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The lessening of Cold War tensions

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Going to the edge of war

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Soviet invasion strategy

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Agreement to stop fighting

Question 35

What is the Truman Doctrine?

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US support to countries that rejected communism

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A policy to reduce Cold War tensions

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Aid to nations to rebuild after WWII

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Medical assistance to inured US troops

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