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During the early years of the Cold War, the U.S, Canada, and many countries in Western Europe enter into a military alliance known as
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
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The Cold War was a conflict between what two competing ideologies?
Democracy and communism
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An ideological war that never turned into actual fighting
Cold War
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What was the United States' main goal for joining the conflict in Vietnam?
Containing the spread of communism.
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Because the US did not think they could remove communism from countries already practicing it they adopted what policy during the Cold War?
Containment
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If one country falls to communism then the regions around it would also be at risk to falling to communism
Domino Theory
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This was plan was designed to restore the economic stability of European nations after WWII
Marshall Plan
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How did the United States respond to the Berlin Blockade?
Airlifted food and other supplies to the city (Berlin Airlift)
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Describe the US's policy of containment
The US had to prevent the USSR from expanding by preventing communism from spreading.
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The Berlin Wall separated what two areas?
East and West Berlin
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What war ended in a stalemate?
Korean War
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What were the two competing intelligence agencies groups during the Cold War?
CIA vs KGB
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What country saw infighting between Muslims and Hindus?
India
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What kind of economy did the Soviet Union have?
Command Economy
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What negative effect did the Arms Race have on the Soviet Union
Crippled their economy
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What action led to the start of the Korean War?
North Korea invaded South Korea
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This war divided the country politically and led to numerous civilian protests against the war.
Vietnam War
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The closest the US and USSR came to nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Why were the Israelis able to win the Arab-Israeli conflict?
They were more industrialized thanks to help from the US and GB
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Imaginary line dividing democratic and communist countries in Europe
Iron Curtain
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What kind of protest did Mahatma Gandhi used in India?
Mass civil disobedience
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Which African country's independence movement became infamous for its torture and foul play on both sides?
Algeria
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What imaginary division in the 1950s does the map demonstrate?
The Iron Curtain
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What geographic location best describes where the "Soviet Bloc" countries of the Warsaw Pact were located?
Eastern Europe
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Why were the United States and the Soviet Union reluctant to become involved in direct military conflict during the Cold War?
The potential for global nuclear destruction
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Countries under the influence of another country either politically, economically, or culturally.
Satellite states
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Why was the Berlin Wall constructed
To keep East Germans from fleeing to the Western sector of Berlin.
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Kwame Nkrumah led a campaign to split what African country from the British?
Ghana
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For the United States, what was the major similarity between the Korean and Vietnam wars?
The US joined both wars to prevent the spread of communism
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Proclamation that the US would aid countries in danger of falling to communism
Truman Doctrine.
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What three Asian counties saw civil wars between communist and non-communist groups
China, Korea, and Vietnam
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The launch of what demonstrated the space race and Cold War competition
Sputnik I
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What symbolized the end of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe?
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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What two groups were both promised land in the Middle East by the British, but did not want to share the land?
Arabs and Jews
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Glasnost and Perestroika where policies enacted by which Soviet leader?
Mikhail Gorbachev