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What was the Cold War?
a state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side, and the Soviet Union on the other side.
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What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
In 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten other countries formed a new military alliance. They pledged to help one another if any one of them were attacked.
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Describe Stalin's viewpoint reflected in the following quote?
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” —Joseph Stalin
This quote reflects Stalin’s view of free elections in Eastern Europe during the Cold War
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How is the U.S. economy different from the former Soviet Union’s economy?
In the U.S. there is more economic freedom.
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As shown in the image, the Marshall Plan was part of an American strategy to _____________.
help European countries rebuild after World War II
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What was the Iron Curtain?
In the West, the "iron curtain" became a symbol of the Cold War fear of communism. It described the division of Europe into an "eastern" (Soviet-dominated) and a "western" (Western democracies led by the U.S.) bloc.
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What was the Warsaw Pact?
The Soviet Union responding to the NATO alliance by forming its own military alliance, which included the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe.
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What initiative does the following quote reflect?
“The truth of the matter is that Europe’s requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products - principally from America - are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.”
The Marshall Plan
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Place each event in chronological order.
a) The Truman Doctrine was introduced
c) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed.
d) The Warsaw Pact was formed.
b) The nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty was signed.
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What is a welfare state?
a system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
A policy rooted in the idea of containment, limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control.
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What was the Nuclear Arms Race and who was it between?
The United States and the Soviet Union wanted to be able to withstand an attack by the other. Eventually both sides developed the hydrogen bomb--a far more destructive military technology to the atomic bomb.
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What is the best description of the context for this statement by Harry Truman?
“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”
Truman is talking about the Soviet aggression mounting toward Europe.
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What is the mostly likely reason these 1940s Hollywood celebrities are marching in protest?
They are protesting against the House Un-American Activities Committee's efforts to identify supposed communist sympathizers in the movie industry.
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Following World War II, Japan became an economic power by
keeping its tariffs high
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What was the Marshall Plan?
To strengthen democratic governments, the United States offered a massive aid package to Western European lands--helping them to rebuild post WWII.
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What was the Red Scare?
A widespread fear of a potential rise of communism
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To what American policy does this excerpt refer?
“Wherever it is considered timely and promising, efforts will be made to advance official limits of Soviet power.”
Containment
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Who first used the term "iron curtain" to describe what happened in Europe at the end of World War II?
Winston Churchill
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What conclusion can be drawn about the significance of the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community?
It spurred economic growth and led to further regional cooperation such as the creation of the European Community.
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What was the policy of containment?
A policy limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control.
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Who was Joseph McCarthy?
McCarthy is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate.
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Containment was the strategy America used to ________.
limit communism to the areas already under Soviet control
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Who was Fidel Castro?
Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere.
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What's the best way to ace your World History test?
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