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This was society in the Soviet Union during the 1980s. (specifically living standards)
What is living standards were low?
100
The United States wanted to promote this system throughout the world.
What is democratic capitalism?
100
This was the first major conflict in the Cold War.
What is the war in Korea?
100
These were radical student groups during the Cultural Revolution.
What are Red Guards?
100
This symbolized the growing ideological divide between East and West.
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
200
The Soviets did this to deal with the unrest that arose in the Soviet satellite states Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
What is they invaded the two countries and crushed the dissent?
200
This event exemplifies the movement during the 1970's towards detente.
What is President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China?
200
China sent 300,000 troops into this country to push back UN forces.
What is North Korea?
200
This was a surprise to both the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the triumph of Communism in China in 1949?
200
This happened at the end of the cold war.
What is the world became more multipolar?
300
This was the result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
What is the credibility of the Soviet state was undermined.
300
The United States did this because they feared that Iran might become a Soviet ally.
What is they carried out a covert action and overthrew the government of Iran in 1953?
300
Today, this is how Korea remains.
What is divided?
300
Mao followed these principles when restructuring the economy.
What is Marxist principles?
300
This is where Stalin agreed to support free elections in Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
400
The reform program in the USSR known as perestroika resulted in this.
What is the adoption of limited free-market policies?
400
This was escalated US involvement in Vietnam due to President Lyndon Johnson's belief in this theory.
What is the domino theory?
400
By 1969 more than half a million American soldiers were serving in this country.
What is Vietnam?
400
Mao and Stalin signed this in 1950.
What is the mutual defense pact?
400
These were opposing Cold War military alliances.
What were NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
500
This is one major characteristic of the Soviet socialist society.
What is all factories were owned by the government?
500
The United States funded these people during the conflicts in Latin America.
Who are a rebel army or Contras?
500
Cuba's revolution was led by this man.
Who is Fidel Castro?
500
This was designed to modernize the country and to increase industrial production.
What is the Five-Year Plan?
500
This exerted a major influence on the world for more than this amount of time.
What is four decades?