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World History 17
Chapter 17 Review-Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the iron curtain? | division between democratic western europe and communist eastern europe |
| What countries were "behind" the iron curtain? | Soviet Union and 7 satellite nations |
| What was the Truman Doctrine? | a policy that stated the U.S. would assist any country who wanted help resisiting communism. |
| What was the goal of the Truman Doctrine? | Containment |
| What is containment? | policy blocking Soviet influence and preventing spread of communism. |
| What is the Warsaw Pact? | a defensive alliance |
| What countries were members of the Warsaw Pact? | Soviet Union and 7 eastern European countries |
| What was the purpose of the Berlin Blockade? | Soviets tried to prevent the U.S. and its allies from reuniting with Germany. |
| What was Sputnik I? | first unmanned satellite above the earth's atmosphere. |
| Who launched Sputnik I and what was the U.S. response? | U.S. began pumping millions of dollars into improving education and technology. |
| What was the Marshall Plan? | a economy recovery plan for Europe. |
| What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan? | Helped nations of Europe rebuild after WWII. |
| Why did the alliance between U.S. and Soviet Union come to an end after WWII? | Stalin refused to allow free elections in eastern Europe |
| Who fought in and won the Chinese Civil War? | Communists vs. Nationalists-Communists won |
| How did the U.S. justify its involvement in foreign nations during the Cold War? | They believed if they allowed one country to fall to communism, so would its neighboring countries(Domino Theory) |
| How did internal conflict affect U.S. foreign policy? | The U.S. moved from brinkmanship to detente because many U.S. citizes were upset over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and felt that they needed to heal their wounds from the war. |
| What was the Bay of Pigs? | U.S. sponsored attempt to invade Cuba and over through Fidel Castro. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis- Who, what, where, leaders? | U.S. vs. Soviet Union. Soviet installed missile bases in Cuba |
| What country were U.S. citizens held hostage? | Iran |
| Who was Ayatollah Khomeini? | Leader of religious opposition and opposed western influence. |
| Who did most Third World countries align themselves with during the Cold War? | They were developing nations that were non-aligned during Cold War. (no one) |
| Who was Daniel Ortega? | Leader of Sandinistas; communist rebels in Nacargua. |
| What tactics did the superpowers use to gain influence in Third World nations? | Provided military and technical aid, rebuild schools; sponsored wars of liberation, revolution, and counterrevolution. |
| Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? | To help support the communist government that was threatened by Islamic rebels. |
| Who began the program of destalinization and what was its goal? | Nikita Khruschev- removed all traces of Stalin's memory |
| What was detente and its purpose? | a policy lessening of Cold War tensions and improved relations being the U.S. and Soviet Union |
| Why was Richard Nixon's visit to China significant? | First U.S. president to visit Communist China. |
| What happened in Czechoslovakia in 1968? | Alexcander Dubek reflexed controls and the soviet controlled Warsaw Pact nations invaded. |
| United Nations | an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world |
| Cold War | the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII. |
| NATO | a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten western European nations, U.S., and Canada. |
| brinkmanship | a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression. |
| Commune | a collective farm on which a great nuber of people work and live together. |
| Red Guards | milita units formed by the young Chinese peopel in 1966 in response to Mao Zedon's call for social and cultural revolution. |
| Cultural Revolution | uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal. |
| Vietcong | a group of Communist guerillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War. |
| Vietnamization | President Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. |
| non aligned nations | the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union |
| SALT | a series of meetings in the 1970's- limited their nations' stock of nuclear weapons. |
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