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Effects of WWII and Beginnings of Cold War
Cold War Policies and Effects
Communist China
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Miscellaneous
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This is why the Cold War was given its name.
What is there was no direct fighting between the Soviet Union and United States?
100
SEATO was founded by nations in Southeast ______ that were anti-________________.
What is Asia and communist?
100
Mao's Great Leap Forward was part of his plan to modernize this area of Chinese production.
What is agriculture?
100
The Communist Party of this Eastern European nation voted to dissolve itself.
What is Hungary?
100
The meaning of the political cartoon ...
What is the United Nations holding together the world separated by democracy and communism?
200
At the Yalta Conference, the Allied Powers decided that this would be the result of Germany.
What is divide Germany up into occupational zones?
200
The U.S. got involved in separate wars in these 2 countries as a result of the Cold War.
What is Korea and Vietnam?
200
This was Chairman Mao's main goal for China.
What is economic independence and stability?
200
In the late 1980's, local farmers in the Soviet Union began to be allowed to set their own prices. This was an example of this Soviet policy.
What is perestroika?
200
This is the reason why the United States chose to support a repressive dictator in Chile, Augusto Pinochet.
What is he was not a communist?
300
The Truman Doctrine detailed this U.S. strategy against communism used at the beginning of the Cold War.
What is the containment policy?
300
“It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.” U. S. President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis in this quote represents this Cold War policy.
What is brinkmanship?
300
The main part of China's Great Leap Forward was to establish ...
What is communes?
300
This was the outcome of the 1956 revolution in Hungary.
What is the uprising was crushed and the leader, Imre Nagy, was executed?
300
The nation of Israel was created by this organization.
What is the United Nations?
400
Douglas MacArthur stayed in this nation after WWII. He helped usher in a new democratic era with a Constitution that allowed this nation to emerge as an economic superpower after WWII.
What is Japan?
400
This is how the Marshall Plan relates to the Truman Doctrine, which offered aid to nations that would resist communism.
What is the Marshall Plan is an example of the Truman Doctrine in that it gave money to recover from WWII to nations in Europe only if they were willing to resist communisim?
400
Students during the Cultural Revolution targeted this group of people for persecution.
What is intellectuals?
400
The fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe began 4 years after this significant change in the Soviet Union.
What is the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader?
400
By the end of the 1970's, the Soviet economy was struggling and significantly weakened because it was by ...
What is the central government (centrally controlled economy)?
500
The Soviet Union was pushing for a divided Germany after WWII for this reason.
What is so Germany can not begin another World War?
500
This is the main reason why the Soviet Union became interested in the Congo in 1960.
What is the Congo was a newly independent nation (and could be influenced into a communist style of government)?
500
The Chinese government's response to the Tiananmen Square Uprising represents their opposition to ...
What is democratic reforms?
500
In the late 1980's, previously banned books in the Soviet Union were allowed to be published. This was an example of this Soviet policy.
What is glasnost?
500
Refer to the map of Europe in 1955, the light gray countries represent the nations that made up this first military alliance and the dark gray countries represent the nations that made up this second military alliance.
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact?