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Cold War Test
Question | Answer |
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Define containment. | a policy to stop the spread of communism |
Which two countries competed against one another in the Cold War? | U.S.A. & U.S.S.R. |
What was the goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War? | spread communism |
What was the goal of the United States during the Cold War? | contain communism |
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan? | to give $13 billion to countries in Western Europe to rebuild after World War II so that these countries would not be tempted by communism |
What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine? | to prevent the spread of communism by sending money and weapons to defeat communist rebels in Greece and Turkey |
What type of government did West Germany have? | democratic |
What type of government did East Germany have? | totalitarian |
What type of government did the Soviet Union have? | totalitarian |
What type of government does the United States have? | democratic |
What type of economic system does the United States have? | capitalism |
What type of economic system did the Soviet Union have? | communism |
What was NATO? | the military alliance between the U.S. Canada and 10 western European nations |
What was the Warsaw Pact? | the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations in eastern Europe |
Where was Berlin located? | East Germany |
What is a cold war? | a war of words competition and threats but that stops short of a military conflict |
What was decided at the Yalta Conference? | to occupy Germany and divide it into 4 zones |
Why was the Berlin Airlift necessary? | the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin |
When did the Cold War begin? | 1945 |
When did the Cold War end? | 1990 |
What is a satellite nation? | a nation whose policies revolved around the Soviet Union's influence |
What did the iron curtain separate? | democratic western Europe from communist eastern Europe |
Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis? | Fidel Castro |
Who was the leader of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis? | John F. Kennedy |
What was glasnost? | a policy that allowed people to disagree with the government and participate more in the government |
How did the Vietnam War end? | North Vietnam won and all of Vietnam became communist |
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union that was responsible for glasnost and perestroika? | Mikhail Gorbachev |
How did the Korean War end? | it was a tie and they remain divided |
Who won the Cold War? | the United States |
In 1962 which country allowed the USSR to place missiles there that were aimed at the US? | Cuba |
What was perestroika? | an economic program that loosened the way the government controlled businesses and allowed some private property and profit |
Who was the leader of Communist China? | Mao Zedong |
What was the closest the world has ever been to nuclear war? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
Who was the leader of communist North Vietnam? | Ho Chi Minh |
What was the Domino Theory? | the idea that if Vietnam became communist |
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis and who built the Berlin Wall? | Nikita Kruschev |
Why did the Soviet Union break apart into 15 independent countries? | economic problems prevented the Soviet Union from keeping these countries together |
Who was the leader of the Chinese nationalists? | Chiang Kai-shek |
What is a demilitarized zone? | an area where the military is not allowed |