Cold War Study Test

Khmer Rouge

A group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975.

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

Embargo

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

Guatemala's nationalist president

How did Mikhail Gorbachev end the Cold War in 1991?

He resigned and declared the Soviet Union dissolved.

Joseph Stalin

Soviet leader

The Reagan Doctrine called for

U.S. aid to rebels fighting Soviet-backed governments.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

US president during WWII

What defense alliance did the Soviet Union form in response to NATO?

Warsaw Pact

What ended the fighting in the Korean War?

an armistice.

What was the result of the Geneva Accords?

it lefts Vietnam divided into a communist north and non-communist south

What was Nixon's strategy to bring down Allende's government?

to suffocate the Chilean economy

developed countries

wealthy nations with substantial industrialization

How did the United States respond to Fidel Castro's rise to power?

with numerous attempts to overthrow Castro's regime

George Kennan's analysis of Stalin's anti-capitalism speech sent to the U.S. secretary of state is known as

"Long Telegram"

How many independent nation-states were established after the dissolution of the former Soviet Union?

10

Iron Curtain

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

Which of these BEST describes the result of the Vietnam War? A. The conflict was peacefully settled after the United States intervened. B. Communist leaders tried to purge all capitalist elements from the country. C. After U.S. troops left, Vietnam was united under a communist government.

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

Why were some Third World countries attracted to socialism?

It claimed to be anti-imperialist and dedicated to economic equality.

Harry S. Truman

President after Roosevelt

Radical groups of students in China who demanded the return of communism were known was

Red Guards

Which country did Cuba rely on for economic aid?

Soviet Union

Which of the following BEST describes the rebuilding efforts of nations in Indochina after war?

The nations were largely destroyed but slowly made progress and reforms.

What was the Berlin airlift?

an effort by the Allies to fly resources into Berlin.

One key change that took place under Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was

land reform.

Perestroika means...

reconstruction

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

socialist or capitalist economic policies

What was Stalin's goal in blockading Berlin?

to force the Allies to retreat from West Germany by starving West Berlin.

multinational corporations

An organization that manufactures and markets products in many different countries and has multinational stock ownership and multinational management

War between two Soviet republics, _____, broke out over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory—also known as the Republic of Artsakh—in the late 1980s.

Armenia and Azerbaijan

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister

Salvador Allende

Chile's socialist president, he promised to follow a "democratic road to socialism."

How did the United States deal with Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán?

It organized and funded a rebel army of Guatemalan exiles to overthrow him.

Potsdam Conference

July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.

Why did President Truman reject air strikes against China during the Korean War?

he feared drawing the Soviet Union into the war

Yalta Conference

held in February 1945 in the Soviet city of Yalta, a conference of the main Allied leaders—U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin—to plan the future of post-World War II Europe

Which of the following is a reason why Stalin was concerned about Soviet security?

high number of soldier and civilian casualties from World War II

nonaligned nations

independent Third World countries that tried to remain neutral in the Cold War struggle between East and West

covert actions

military operation that is carried out secretly and often outside of official channels

The republics and territories that emerged from the failing Soviet Union were organized around

national identity

For the people of Panama and the rest of Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s, rioting was an expression of

nationalism

developing countries

poor nations with little or no industrialization

Second World

the East

President Nixon ordered covert operations to bring down Allende's government because

the United States feared that Chile was heading toward communism.

First World

the West

What was Khmer Rouge?

the communist movement in Cambodia

Third World

the group of nations that had recently gained independence from colonial rule and were not aligned with the West (First World) or the East (Second World) after World War II; more broadly, the developing nations of the world

The competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to explore space was known as

the space race.