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Cold War
Chapter 20: The Cold War and Postwar Changes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Even after Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union made it clear that it would NOT... | allow Eastern European satellites to become independent of control |
| The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should... | hold free elections to determine their futures |
| Student protests of the late 1960s were reactions to the following... | the Vietnam War, university policies and administrators, and alienation of the individual from society |
| The city of Berlin, which was located deep inside the Soviet zone of a postwar divided Germany, was... | itself divided into four zones |
| The Truman Doctrine was formulated, initially, as a response to the 1946 withdrawal of... | British aid to Greece |
| The "Prague Spring" of Alexander Dubcek was forestalled in 1968 when... | the Soviet army invaded Czechoslavakia |
| To stop the spread of communism, the U.S. adopted a policy toward the Soviet Union called... | containment |
| Much of Canada's postwar growth, financed by U.S. investment, led to Canadian fears of... | American economic domination |
| In the late 1960s, the writings of reformers like de Beauvoir created renewed interest in... | feminism |
| The Marshall Plan was designed to... | restore economic stability of European nations after WWII |
| A civil war in _________________ in 1946 contributed to tensions between the Soviet Union and Great Britain. | Greece |
| Postwar birthrates rose in the late 1940s and 1950s, creating a... | "baby boom" |
| Increases in workers' wages, increased credit, and built-up demand for postwar goods led to the creation of what some people have called the... | consumer society |
| U.S. fear about the spread of communists were increased when ______________ became a Communist nation in 1949. | China |
| When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957, many Americans feared that the Soviet Union... | was ahead of the U.S. in the production of missiles |
| Members of the Warsaw Pact | Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, and Bulgaria |
| Original members on NATO | United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and Italy |
| Joined NATO later after 1949 | West Germany, Turkey, and Greece |
| Members of SEATO | United States, the Philippines, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand |
| Members of CENTO | United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan |
| The U.S. senator responsible for the anti-Communist movement known as the "Red Scare" was... | Joseph McCarthy |
| The "Bay of Pigs" refers to... | a U.S. attempt to overthrow the Cuban government under Fidel Castro |
| In 1970, four students at _____________________ were killed by the Ohio National Guard during an antiwar demonstration. | Kent State |
| The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, founded in 1949, was... | the Soviet Union's response to the Marshall Plan |
| The Truman Doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide ____________________ to nations threatened by Communist expansion. | money |
| The hotline between the White House and the Kremlin was established in response to what event? | the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| The Warsaw Pact sought to... | create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European nations |
| Which U.S. president signed into law the Civil Rights Act? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| French president Charles de Gaulle attempted to return France to the status of a world power by... | investing heavily in nuclear weapons |
| The Berlin Wall was built in order to... | prevent East Germans from defecting to West Germany |
| Communist leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Fidel Castro |
| first president of France's Fifth Republic | Charles de Gaulle |
| U.S. secretary of state who compared Communist expansion to the spread of an infection | Dean Acheson |
| West German leader responsible for the "economic miracle" | Konrad Adenauer |
| U.S. diplomat who argued for a policy of containment in response to Communist expansion | George Kennan |
| Soviet leader who promoted the growth of heavy industry over consumer goods after WWII | Joseph Stalin |
| Soviet leader who built the Berlin Wall | Nikita Khrushchev |
| U.S. president who resumed relations with China after the Vietnam War | Richard Nixon |
| U.S. president who, beginning in 1964, increased the number of troops in Vietnam | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Communist leader who declared Hungary a free nation | Imre Nagy |
| Communist leader who attempted to make Poland less dependent on the Soviet Union | Wladyslaew Gomulka |
| Communist leader of Yugoslavia after WWII | Tito |
| author of The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir |
| U.S. senator responsible for the "Red Scare" | Joseph McCarthy |
| alliance designed to prevent Soviet expansion in Southeast Asia | SEATO |
| alliance designed to prevent Soviet expansion in the South | CENTO |
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