The Cold War-Chapter 26
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- Q1The main purpose of the Yalta conference was tomake plans for postwar Europeplan for an invasion of Germanynegotiate a ceasefire between the USSR and Great Britainreduce nuclear proliferation30sEditDelete
- Q2The Allied leaders, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were known as theBig ThreePostwar PotentatesIron CurtainAllied Bosses30sEditDelete
- Q3What international organization did the Soviets agree to join at the Yalta Conference?the United Nationsthe Warsaw Pactthe League of NationsNATO30sEditDelete
- Q4What was President Truman's foreign policy for dealing with the spread of communism?domino theoryisolationismappeasementcontainment30sEditDelete
- Q5The first military conflict of the Cold War took place inIranVietnamKoreaCuba30sEditDelete
- Q6Which leader's Five Year Plan modernized his country and increased industrial production?FDRFidel CastroMao ZedongWinston Churchill30sEditDelete
- Q7The US aid plan that was designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after WWII was calledthe Warsaw Pactthe Domino theorythe Marshall Planthe Truman Doctrine30sEditDelete
- Q8A 1955 defense pact between the USSR and Eastern European nations was theTruman DoctrineAppeasement PlanWarsaw PactMarshall Plan30sEditDelete
- Q9The belief that if Vietnam fell to Communism, the rest of Asia would also fall was referred to asthe Domino theorya Covert Actionthe Cultural Revolutionthe Marshall Plan30sEditDelete
- Q10Communist insurgents in South Vietnam were known as theViet RedsViet SongPeople's Army of VietnamViet Cong30sEditDelete
- Q11______________________ was the style of government in place in Vietnam after the Vietnam War.CapitalismFascismSocialismCommunism30sEditDelete
- Q12The radical student groups that caused violent chaos during the Cultural Revolution were known asRepublican Studentsthe Red Guardsthe People's Liberation ArmyMao's Army30sEditDelete
- Q13The period of revolutionary upheaval and political persecution in China from 1966-1976 was referred to as theCultural RevolutionSatyagraha MovementMay Fourth MovementPeople's Liberation Movement30sEditDelete
- Q14Cuba became allied with the Soviet Union afterthe United States withdrew support from Cuban leader Fulgencia Batista.the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.the United States began a naval blockade of the island.Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba's U.S.-supported dictator.30sEditDelete
- Q15Where was the location of a conflict between the USSR & the USA that nearly resulted in a direct war that may have involved nuclear weapons?KoreaAfghanistanIranCuba30sEditDelete
- Q16What country did the USSR wage a ten year war that was considered their “Vietnam”?IranAfghanistanGermanyCuba30sEditDelete
- Q17What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?To prevent people from fleeing West GermanyTo stop the flow of people fleeing East GermanyTo keep migrants from Soviet satellite states from entering East GermanyTo protect against West German terrorist groups30sEditDelete
- Q18When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union was led by the reformerNikita KhrushchevLeonid Brezhnev.Mikhail GorbachevVladimir Putin30sEditDelete
- Q19By the 1970's leaders on both sides of the Cold War embraced the idea of detente. This term meansa secret operation to increase surveillancepolicy of building a deadly weapons arsenala period of upheaval and changethe easing of tensions and hostility30sEditDelete
- Q20Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a reform for the Soviet Union that would help make the Soviet economy more efficient and productive. This is calleddetentedeterrenceglasnostperestroika30sEditDelete