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Ch. 13 Review #2
The Spread of Communism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ______________ was the nickname given to the leaders who met at Yalta. | |
| _______________ was divided into four zones occupied by the U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. | |
| This world peacekeeping organization was set in 1945 by 50 nations and included the U.S. and the Soviet Union. | |
| ___________________ is the nickname given to the U.S. and the Soviet Union, referring to their status as the strongest economic and military powers in the world after WWII. | |
| Soviet leader _________________________ was the first to introduce 5-year economic plans aimed at increasing heavy industry and farm production in his country. | |
| _____________________________ gave the famous “iron curtain” speech in which he described the division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War. | |
| President ___________________________ adopted a foreign policy called “containment” which aimed at preventing the spread of communism. | |
| The _______________________________ was a $12.5 billion plan that helped rebuild the war-torn economies of western Europe and reduced the appeal of communism. | |
| The _____________________________ was an operation in which the U.S. and Britain sent tons of supplies to West Berlin in response to the Soviet blockade of the city. | |
| ________________was a military alliance originally consisting of ten Western European nations and the U.S. and Canada. | |
| The ________________________ was a military alliance consisting of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations. | |
| _________________________ was a foreign policy developed by Eisenhower’s Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that stated that the U.S. was willing to go to the edge of war if threatened by the Soviets. | |
| ___________________ was the first unmanned satellite in space-launched by the Soviets. | |
| The __________________________describes the event in which the Soviets shot down a U.S. spy plane operated by Francis Gary Powers. | |
| The ___________________ and the ____________________ fought for control of China in the 1930s. | |
| _____________________ was the leader of the Communists in China’s civil war. | |
| _____________________ led the Nationalists in China’s civil war. | |
| Communists enjoyed the backing of the ___________________ to whom they had promised land. | |
| Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists were forced to flee to __________________ after losing the civil war. | |
| The ______________ aided the Nationalists during the Chinese civil war and the ______________________ aided the Communists during the Chinese civil war. | |
| _______________ was divided at the 38th parallel into a Communist north supported by the Soviets and a democratic south supported by the Americans. | |
| The ______________________________ was the name of Mao’s economic program that emphasized heavy industry and great farm production. | |
| ___________________ were giant collective farms that peasants were forced to join after Mao ended all private ownership of farm land. | |
| The _______________________ was Mao’s revolution that urged young people to rebel against the Four Olds. | |
| The______________________ were groups of young people who terrorized teachers, workers, and peasants. | |
| Korea was a former colony of ________________ until WWII. | |
| The U.S. and other nations authorized by the ______________________ sent troops to aid South Korea. | |
| General____________________________ led the UN forces in Korea. | |
| MacArthur wanted to nuclear bomb ___________. | |
| President ________________________ fired MacArthur for publicly criticizing his policies in Korea. | |
| The ___________________ was an agreement that ceased the fighting in Korea in July 1953. | |
| ___________________ became the leader of North Korea after the war. | |
| ________________________ became the leader of North Korea in 1994 upon the death of his father. | |
| ______________ was the European country that controlled Vietnam until it was driven out in the 1950s. | |
| Vietnamese nationalist _______________________ set up a communist government in North Vietnam. | |
| The __________________________ was the American belief that if one country fell to communism then others would fall like dominoes. | |
| Vietnam became divided at the _____ parallel. | |
| South Vietnam created a noncommunist government led by ___________________. | |
| The war in Vietnam began with a few thousand troops sent by JFK and then escalated under President ___________________. | |
| President ______________ eventually withdrew the U.S. from the Vietnam conflict. | |
| ______________________ was a plan that called for a gradual pull out of U.S. troops to be replaced with South Vietnamese troops. | |
| _________________ was the capital city of South Vietnam before it was taken over by the Communists and renamed Ho Chi Minh City. | |
| The ___________________ were Cambodian rebels who set up a brutal Communist government that killed over 2 million people. | |
| The ____________________ is a term that refers to nations nonaligned with either superpower. | |
| ______________________ was a democratically elected leader of Chile who was toppled by the CIA in 1973. | |
| ___________________________was a brutal dictator who led Chile and was supported by the United States. | |
| _________________________was an unpopular dictator of Cuba supported by the United States in the 1950s | |
| ________________________ has been the Communist dictator of Cuba since 1959. | |
| The _________________________was a failed attempt by the U.S. to overthrow Castro in Cuba. | |
| The ___________________________ ended when Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for the U.S. promise not to invade Cuba. | |
| The U.S. supported Nicaraguan dictator __________________________________ and his family since 1933. | |
| __________________________ was the leader of the Communist Sandinistas who overthrew Somoza in 1979. | |
| ____________________________________was the shah of Iran that the U.S. restored to power after nationalists took control in 1953. | |
| ________________________________ was the radical ayatollah who took Americans hostage for 444 days. | |
| The Soviet Union invaded __________________________ in 1979 and fought an unsuccessful 10 year war. | |
| ____________________________ was the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin until he was replaced in 1964. | |
| The Soviet Union responded to a reform movement in __________________________ in 1968 by sending in tanks and halting Prague Spring. | |
| The _____________________________ was a policy stated that the Soviet Union had the right to prevent its satellite nations from rejecting Communism. | |
| The Soviet Union’s relationship with the fellow Communist country of __________soured over border disputes and the inability of the Soviet Union to control their Communist neighbor | |
| __________________ was a policy followed by Richard Nixon that aimed to lower, or ease, tensions between the two superpowers. | |
| Nixon was the first president to visit _____________ and _______________________. | |
| ______________ was an agreement between Brezhnev and Nixon to limit the number of nuclear missiles each nation could have. | |
| ______________________ was a fierce anti-Communist who led the United States from 1981-1989. | |
| ____________was a defense system against nuclear missiles known as Star Wars started by Reagan. | |
| Tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union thawed once again when _____________________ became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985. |
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