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Ch 15 Cold War
Question | Answer |
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the belief that one communist victory would lead to many others | domino theroy |
nations that are stronger than other powerful nations | superpowers |
American-supported ruler of South Vietnam | Ngo Dinh Diem |
communist ruler of North Vietnam after 1954 | Ho Chi Minh |
brought on high taxes and greater government regulation | welfare state |
seen as a particular threat to the balance of terror during the SALT talks | anti-ballistic missiles |
led the Cuban Revolution in 1959 | Fidel Castro |
the Soviet leader after Stalin | Nikita Khrushchev |
brought the world to brink of nuclear war in 1962 | Cuban missile crisis |
a relaxation of tensions | detente |
What aspect of the Cold War arms race made it so terrifying? | The weapons were more powerful than ever before. |
A "red scare" was the fear of | communist in the United States. |
After World War II, the United States offered assistance to war-torn European nations through which of the following? | the Marshall Plan |
The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by which leader? | Mao Zedong |
During the Korean War, which nation provided hundreds of thousands of troops to help North Korea? | China |
Which alliance was dedicated to the security of communist nations in Europe during the Cold War? | the Warsaw Pact |
The purpose of the SALT talks and the START treaty was | to limit the number of nuclear weapons held by the superpowers |
What kind of government did Japan adopt after World War II? | a parliamentary democracy |
When the North Koreans overran South Korea in the summer of 1950, United Nations forces stopped their advance at | then Pusan Perimeter |
During the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive | turned American public opinion against the war |
The Khmer Rouge was responsible for | comiting genocide in Cambodia |
What conflict was called the Soviets Union's "Vietnam"? | the war in Afghanistan |
After the Soviet Union split up and communism was defeated in Eastern Europe, China accelerated its embrace pf | Capitolism |