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World History Ch 30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A strategy of keeping communism within existing boundaries | containment |
| A relaxation of tensions | detente |
| Who launched the “Star Wars” defense system | Ronald Reagan |
| A system of beliefs and values | ideology |
| Who was the Soviet leader after Joseph Stalin | Nikita Khrushchev |
| In the period after World War II, which two sides faced off? | NATO and the Warsaw Pact |
| SALT, START, and NPT were: | agreements to limit nuclear weapons |
| The Cold War got hot, or flared up into actual fighting, in: | Korea |
| During the Cuban missile crisis the United States and the Soviet Union were led by: | Kennedy and Khrushchev |
| Capitalist countries have market economies and communist countries have: | command economies |
| Recession | PERIOD WHEN THE ECONOMY OF A COUNTRY SHRINKS |
| Suburbanization | MOVEMENT TO COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE AN URBAN CORE |
| Segregation | FORCED SEPARATION |
| Discrimination | UNEQUAL TREATMENT OR BARRIERS |
| A COUNTRY WITH A MARKET ECONOMY BUT WITH INCREASED GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC NEEDS OF ITS PEOPLE. | welfare state |
| What 1970s event ended decades of postwar prosperity in industrialized democracies? | a drastic rise in oil prices |
| Which nation was divided after World War II and later reunited? | Germany |
| The intention of the Marshall Plan? | to rebuild the economies of war-shattered Europe |
| Why did some European nations decide to limit welfare state benefits in the 1980s and 1990s? | Social welfare programs brought high taxes and more government regulation |
| What was one reason for the huge rise in Japan’s gross domestic product between 1950 and 1970? | its low military budget |
| An area with no military forces near the 38th parallel in Korea was called the: | demilitarized zone |
| The longtime ruler of North Korea who was glorified as the “Great Leader” | Kim II Sung |
| The pooling of peasant land and laborers, or ______, proved to be a failure in China | collectivization |
| During the _____, China suffered food shortages and the failure of many small industries | Great Leap Forward |
| The noncommunist dictator of South Korea was named: | Syngman Rhee |
| China’s Communists finally won the long civil war under the leadership of: | Mao Zedong |
| The goal of the Cultural Revolution in China was to: | free China of “bourgeois” tendencies |
| Playing the "China card” refers to the attempt of the United States to: | improve relations with China |
| How did the Korean War start? | Communist troops from North Korea attacked South Korea |
| The statement that describes North and South Korea in the 1980s | South Korea began a successful transition to democracy; North Korea remained a communist dictatorship |
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