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1 The Cold War Review World History

2 Which four countries occupied Germany following World War II?  Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union

3 Why did President Truman give economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey?  They were resisting communist takeovers.

4 What did the Warsaw Pact and NATO have in common?  Both were military pacts.

5 Why was a wall built in Berlin?  To prevent citizens from Eastern Germany (East Berlin) from escaping to the west.

6 Why did the Soviet Union invade its own ally, Czechoslovakia?  Because the Czech leader, Alexander Dubcek, tried to loosen his country from strict Soviet control

7 This is an alliance between the United States, Canada, and ten Western European nations.  NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

8 This was an alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies.  The Warsaw Pact

9 This is an organization of nations set up after World War II, including both of the superpowers.  The United Nations

10 This is an economic aid package designed to give European nations aid needed to rebuild after World War II.  The Marshall Plan

11 I am the communist leader of Cuba who during the Bay of Pigs Invasion.  Fidal Castro

12 The Policy of lessening Cold War tensions  Detente

13 This President was the first to visit communist China  Richard Nixon

14 What is the time period called to describe the tension between the U.S. and the USSR?  The Cold War

15 When the Soviet Union cut off supplies to West Berlin the U.S. did what?  Flew in supplies

16 This outlined the U.S. foreign policy of containment  The Truman Doctrine

17 This term was used by Winston Churchill to represent the division between a mostly democratic Western Europe and a Communist Eastern Europe  The “Iron Curtain”

18 Who was Kim Il Sung?  Leader of North Korea

19 He was the original commander of the United Nations forces in the Korean War  Douglas MacArthur

20 When Israel was created, Arab nations responded by doing what?  Declaring war

21 The strategy of the United States to train South Vietnamese troops to defend themselves - and at the same time begin removing American troops out of Vietnam  Vietnamization

22 The students who were killed in Tiananmen Square were protesting the Chinese government’s…  Lack of political freedom

23 Who was the first American president to visit Communist China was  Richard Nixon

24 Which two groups fought a civil war in China both before and after WW II?  Communists and Nationalists

25 The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program was backed by which President?  Ronald Reagan

26 Which parallel was Korea divided?  38th


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