Review Time World History: Chapter 23
What “divided” the world between Communism and the Free World?
What were the 3 groups in the world following WWII?
What was a Communist motive for their expansion?
What area did the Soviets hope to control as a buffer zone?
What was one nation that fought against Soviet aggression unsuccessfully in Eastern Europe?
How did America change following WWII?
What was one of America’s goals following WWII?
What was the Truman Doctrine?
What was one of the two nations that was the early recipient of the Truman Doctrine?
What was the plan to give money to nations to rebuild their economies?
What city was blockaded by the Soviets?
How did America respond to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?
What were the military alliances during the Cold War?
What began the massive arms race during the Cold War?
During what decade in the 1900s did the Soviets gain their atomic bomb?
What were the “wars” that were kept in specific geographic locations?
Which team won in China?
Where did the Nationalists flee once they lost China?
Who led the UN forces in Korea?
Where did McArthur land with an invasion force that turned around the Korean War?
What nation intervened with its military to assist the North Koreans from defeat?
At what parallel is the divide between North and South Korea?
What nation controlled Vietnam after WWII?
Who was the leader pushing for Vietnam’s independence?
At what battle did France lose control of Vietnam?
Who were Communist guerillas living in South Vietnam?
The concern that if South Vietnam fell to Communism the entire region would was nicknamed what?
What offensive was the turning point in Vietnam for America?
In what year did the Tet Offensive occur?
What was the beginning of the Vietnam War where an American ship was attacked by North Vietnam?
What nickname was given to Nixon’s program of pulling out of Vietnam?
What happened to South Vietnam once America left?
What was America’s biggest failure during the Cold War?
Who took over Cuba?
What was the American failure of an invasion in Cuba?
Who was another Communist killed in Bolivia?
What was Sputnik?
What was the incident when an American spy plane was shot down by the Soviets?
What was the most visible or recognizable symbol of the Cold War?
What was the most dangerous time of the Cold War?
What was America’s response to Soviet missiles in Cuba?
Which president tried to ease tensions during the Cold War?
Where did Nixon that was the 1 st time since this nation became Communistic?
What was the purpose of SALT?
What nation did the USSR invade in the late 1970s?
What was the purpose of President Regan’s SDI program?
Who gave the Soviets many freedoms during the mid 1980s?
What is Perestroika?
What is Glasnost?
Who was the first 1 st elected Russian president?