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