Chapter 33
During the "Prague Spring,"
Alexander Dubcek sought to liberalize Czechoslovakian communism.
At the Bay of Pigs in 1961,
An American-sponsored invasion failed and subsequently strengthened Castro's grip on power.
The Berlin blockade demonstrated that
Britain and the United States would not abandon Berlin.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would
become a homeland for immigrant Jews.
Ideologically, the two competing sides in the cold war were
capitalism and communism.
Deng Xiaoping
ended China's isolation and economic self-sufficiency.
The reorganization of China under communism in the 1950s included all of the following EXCEPT
free-market reforms to increase productivity.
The regime of the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown because
he alienated conservative Shia Muslims and allowed U.S. corporations to heavily influence the economy; and his repressive policies alienated leftist politicians.
The nonalignment movement suffered from internal dissension primarily because
many nonaligned states needed and accepted aid from either the United States or the Soviet Union.
Which of the following was NOT a cold war flashpoint?
the 1971 war between Pakistan and India
The United States tentatively supported a failed invasion of Cuba at
the Bay of Pigs.
The Cuban missile crisis ended when
the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and his agreement to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey.
Tensions developed between China and the Soviet Union after
the Soviets refused to support China against India and provided China with only modest foreign aid.
As a result of the Cultural Revolution in China,
the elite were killed, jailed, or sent to corrective labor camps.
The expression "domestic containment" refers to
the popular retreat to the home and family to escape from the anxieties of the cold war.
Britain turned over control of Palestine to the UN in 1947 because
they could not resolve the conflict between Palestinians and Jews.
Gandhi and Nehru opposed the partition of India because
they wanted the people of India to act and feel as one nation.
Conflicts between native Kikuyu and British settlers intensified in Kenya after World War II because
white settlers had seized the best farmland; and Kikuyu had been crowded onto reserves and reduced to the status of wage laborers.
A Geneva peace conference regarding Vietnam in 1954
A) followed the defeat of France at Dienbienphu. B) determined that Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the seventeenth parallel. C) determined that Ho Chi Minh and the communists would have control of North Vietnam. D) determined that democratic elections would be held.
The end of communism in east and central Europe was peaceful in all of the following states EXCEPT
Romania.
