The Cold War and Beyond Study Guide Questions (Part 1)

The Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were know as the?

"Big Three"

The term that came to symbolize the growing ideological divide between East and West was?

"Iron Curtain"

The triumph of Communism in China in 1949 was?

A surprise to both the United Sates and the Soviet Union.

Which of these BEST describes the result of the Vietnam War?

After U.S. troops left, Vietnam was united under a communist government.

At the Yalta conference, Stalin?

Agreed to support free elections in Eastern Europe.

Which of the following was a characteristic of Soviet socialist society?

All factories were owned by the government.

What was the Cold War?

An ideological conflict between civilizations driven by the fears of capitalist Western nations in Europe and North America about the drive to domination of communist nations the East.

The system of racial separation in South Africa, designed to create a fully segregated society is called?

Apartheid

What policy in South Africa instituted by the Afrikaner government sparked criticism around the world?

Apartheid

Why did the United States carry out a covert action and overthrow the government of Iran in 1953?

Because they Feared Iran might become a Soviet ally.

A nation was considered a developed country if it was?

Capitalist with advanced industrial economies.

Fidel Castro was the leader of which communist nation?

Cuba

What systemwide the United States seek to promote throught the world?

Democratic Capitalism

After World War 2, both Korea and Vietnam were?

Divided between communist north and noncommunist south.

A government order that restricts of prohibits trade with another nation is called a/an?

Embargo

Cuba became allied with the Soviet Union after?

Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba's U.S. supported dictator.

Why were some Third World countries attracted to socialism?

It claimed to be anti-imperialistand dedicated to economic equality.

How did the United States retaliate after Fidel Castro nationalized American companies?

It imposed a trade embargo on Cuba.

How did the United States respond after Fidel Castro began building a communist state?

It tried to organize a rebel army to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

After independence, South Africa was under the control of?

Its white minority.

The first major armed conflict of the Cold War took place in?

Korea

Which of the following was true of Soviet society in the 1980s?

Living standards were low.

The main purpose of the Yalta Conference was to?

Make plans for postwar Europe.

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union was led by the reformer?

Mikhail Gorbachev

Who was the last political leader of the Soviet Union?

Mikhail Gorbachev

With the end of the Cold War conflict between the United States and the USSR, the world became more?

Multipolar

NATO and the Warsaw Pact were?

Opposing Cold War military alliances.

Which of the following events exemplified the movement during the 1970s towards detante in the Cold War conflict?

President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China.

The United States got involved with the Vietnam war to

Prevent South Vietnam from falling to communism.

Nations guarded and controlled by a stronger nation were called?

Protectorates

During the Cultural Revolution in China, the Red Guards were?

Radical student groups.

During the Cold War, superpowers put pressure on developing countries to choose between?

Socialist or capitalist economic policies.

When did the Cold War end?

The 1990s.

During the Cold War, the wealthy, capitalist nations of Western Europe and North America were refer to as?

The 1st World.

During the Cold War, industrialized or industrializing communist countries were referred to as?

The 2nd World.

During the Cold War, the poorer, formerly imperialized nations of the world where much of the Cold War played out were refer to as?

The 3rd World.

What even brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war in the early 1960s?

The Cuba Missile Crisis

What is the name for the plan to rebuild Europe and Japan at the end of the Cold War?

The Marshall Plan.

The radical student groups that caused violent chaos during the cultural revolution were know as?

The Red Guards

The meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Yalta in 1945 was a sign that?

The USSR and the West might cooperate in the post war era.

What international organization did the Soviets agree to join at the Yalta Conference?

The United Nations

Which two nations were the only superpowers remaining at the end of World War 2 and therefor were in competition with each other, leading to the Cold War?

The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics.

The Truman Doctrine was a policy that?

The United States would provide financial support to nations around the world who were fighting against communism.

The reform program in the USSR known as perestroika ("restructuring") resulted in?

The adoption of limited free-market policies.

What was Khmer Rouge?

The communist movement in Cambodia.

One result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was that?

The credibility of the Soviet state was undermined.

President Lyndon Johnson escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam due to his belief in?

The domino theory.

Perestroika and Glasnost were both policies that influenced?

The fall of the Soviet Union.

The "Domino Theory" was an idea that if one nation in a global region were to fall to communism, then all of the neighboring regions would soon follow. What Western policy was developed to prevent the domino theory from coming true?

The policy of containment.

How did the Soviet Union react when the Western allies announced plans to combine their German occupation zones into a new West German state?

They blockaded West Berlin.

How did the Soviets deal with the unrest that arose in the Soviet satellites states Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s?

They invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia and crushed the dissent.

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

To stop the flow of people fleeting East Germany.

Which country did theUnited States send military forces to stop the spread of communist forces under the command of Ho Chi Minh?

Vietnam

Who referred to the divide between the capitalist West and the communist East as an "iron curtain"?

Winston Churchill

The Cold War began as the vicious attempt to decide what to do with the territory conquered by Germany at the end of?

World War 2