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Cold War Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was to: | Keep East Germans from fleeing to the Western sector of Berlin. |
| One reason Mikhail Gorbachev implemented the policies of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union was to? | Encourage political discussion and economic reform. |
| What country is most closely associated with fighting between Hindus and Muslims. | India |
| What continent is where indigenous, colonial, and constitutional decolonization occurred? | Africa |
| What country was created in 1948? | Israel |
| The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially formed to do what? | Defend Western Europe from Soviet aggression and communism. |
| What was one social change Mao Zedong instituted in China after 1949? | Granting legal equality for men and women. |
| The Marshall Plan was designed to stop the spread of communism by providing what? | Funds for economic recovery in war-torn European nations. |
| What situation is referred to by these headlines? " A Jewish State is Created" "Six-Day War results in Major Arab losses" "Egypt and Israel sign the Camp David Accords". | Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. |
| One way in which the Korean War and the Vietnam war are similar is that both: | Developed from Cold War tensions. |
| The primary purpose of the United Nations is to: | Resolve conflicts between nations peacefully. |
| One way in which the Great Leap Forward and the Four Modernizations are similar is that each was an attempt to: | Increase farm and factory output |
| The destruction of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union signify the : | End of the Cold War. |
| Between 1945 and 1947, the differences between the Hindus and the Muslims in India led to what? | Partitioning of the subcontinent. |
| One reason the Chinese communists were able to gain control of China was primarily due to the support of the? | Peasants |
| The events in these headlines contributed to what? "Korea Divided at 38th Parallel" Hungarian Revolution Crushed" "Missile Sites Spotted in Cuba" | Tensions between the superpowers. |
| How did Kwame Nkrumah lead Ghana to independence from Great Britain? | Through a largely non-violent movement. |
| In what country would you find apartheid? | South Africa |
| In what part of the world did the US think the Domino Theory applied? | The Far East |
| In what country did Fidel Castro come to power in 1959? | Cuba |
| What leader instituted the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution? | Mao Zedong |
| Who was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin? | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Who was the Prime Minister of India, and assassinated by Sikh bodyguards? | Indira Gandhi |
| Which leader from the USA was in charge of rebuilding Japan after World War 2? | General Douglas MacArthur |
| Who led the independence movement and became the first Prime Minister of Kenya? | Jomo Kenyatta |
| What is the willingness to go to the edge of war? | Brinkmanship |
| What is a policy of lessening Cold war tensions? | Detente |
| What is a Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information? | Glasnost |
| What were the 1993 agreements in which Israeli Prime Minister Rabin granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. | Oslo Peace Accords |
| What is the term for developing nations who were not aligned with either superpower during the Cold War? | Third World |
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