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World History Ch 32
The Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Purpose of the United Nations | maintain peace by guaranteeing the security of member nations |
| In what city was the Charter of the United Nations drafted | San Francisco |
| Purpose of the UN Security Council | to decide diplomatic, political and military disputes |
| Purpose of the UN General Assembly | to make policy |
| According to the Allies what was the best way to achieve security | strengthen democracy and build prosperous economies in Europe |
| What did Stalin want to establish pro-Soviet Governments in Eastern Europe | to prevent future attacks and to expand their empire |
| What is the Iron Curtain | Soviet made barrier that split Europe into non-Communist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe |
| Purpose of the US policy of containment | to hold back the spread of communism |
| What was the Truman Doctrine | US assist free peoples to help countries fight communist take over |
| On what did US security depend | strong and democratic Europe |
| Purpose of the Marshall Plan | to restore confidence in Europe and rebuild European economies |
| Which four countries controlled Germany after WWII | Britain, France, United States and Soviet Union |
| Why did Stalin put a blockade in Berlin | to block access from West Berlin to East Berlin |
| Why was NATO formed | to resist communism |
| Why was the Warsaw Pact formed | a reaction to NATO and to strengthen Soviet hold on Eastern Europe |
| What became the symbol of the Cold War | Berlin Wall |
| What organization succeeded the League of Nations as an important tool for maintaining peace after WWII | United Nations |
| Which two American Presidents tried and failed to work with Joseph Stalin after WWII | Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman |
| Why was a strong and democratic Europe important to the US after WWII | American leaders believed a strong and democratic Europe wouldn't fall to communism |
| In which European nations did Communists gain political power not through Soviet might but by leading the resistance against Axis forces in WWII | Albania and Yugoslavia |
| Who used the phrase iron curtain to refer to the Soviets' control of Eastern Europe | Winston Churchill |
| What was the US chief foreign policy during the Truman administration | halting the spread of communism |
| How did the Western Allies end the Berlin Blockade | they made the blockade ineffective by airlifting supplies to the city |
| What two world crises prompted the US and other democratic nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 | Berlin Blockade and Communist take over of Czechoslovakia |
| What event of 1949 signaled a step forward for the Soviets arms race | Soviet Unions first successful tests of an atomic bomb |
| After the early 1960s what two means did the superpowers use to block each others aims for newly independent and economically developing nations | economic aid and military intervention |
| Who succeeded Stalin to power in the Soviet Union | Nikita Khrushchev |
| What policy did Khrushchev call for that allowed the Soviet Union to compete with the United States but avoid war | Peaceful Coexistence |
| What is Sputnik | worlds first satellite |
| Who launched Sputnik | Soviet Union |
| What event brought the superpowers close to World War III | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Who succeeded Khrushchev to power in the Soviet Union | Leonid Brezhnev |
| Which to leaders agreed to the policy of detente | Brezhnev and Nixon |
| What event marked the end of detente | Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| Under Stalin, the Soviet Union increased production of these three industrial resources | coal steel and oil |
| Shortages of these three things persisted under Stalin's rule | consumer goods, food and clothing |
| Which leader is known for loosening control over the Soviet people | Leonid Brezhnev |
| What two events stiffened many Poles' opposition to Communist rule | anti Catholic policies and collective farms |
| From what country did more than 200,000 refugees flee when Soviet tanks crushed their regime | Hungary |
| Where in the Soviet satellites did the bloodiest purges against officials take place | Czechoslovakia |
| What doctrine asserted the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in anti-Communist uprisings | Brezhnev Doctrine |
| Whose position as a world power declined after WWII | Britain |
| What two things plagued France after WWII | domestic and international problems |
| What country became Western Europe's leading industrial nation after WWII | West Germany |
| What two issues dominated Europe after WWII | economic recovery and military security |
| What did Britain and France do to speed economic recovery | relinquished their colonies in Asia and Africa |
| What are systems that assigned the national government responsibility for health care and social security | welfare states |
| Who led Britain toward the welfare state | Clement Attlee |
| Who came out of retirement in France to lead the Fifth Republic | Charles de Gaulle |
| Who led West Germany to form a capitalist government with strong ties to the West | Konrad Adenauer |
| Which two political parties dominated West Germany | Christian Democrats and Social Democrats |
| What was established in Europe to reduce the threat of European military conflict through economic cooperation | Common Market or European Economic Community |
| To which two placed did the United States sent troops to contain communism | Korea and Vietnam |
| Which court case make segregation in public school illegal | Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
| Who was the leading civil rights activist in the United States and stressed nonviolent protests | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| American industry began to change dramatically in the 1950s with the use of this production technique | automation |
| The development of these three things created profound social changes in the United States | automobiles, suburbs and TV |
| This US President engaged the US military in fighting communism in Vietnam | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| John F. Kennedy's determination to win the cold war was reflected in these two foreign policy crises | Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis |
| These two events caused enormous American opposition to the Vietnam War during Nixon's administration | bombing in Cambodia and killing of protesters at Kent State |
| What did President Eisenhower use to enforce the Brown Decision | federal agencies |
| Delivered the I Have A Dream speech | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve conflict in the Middle East | Lester B. Pearson |
| Who thwarted the separatist drive for an independent Quebec | Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
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