Chapter 17

Question 1

What international organization was formed to work on political disagreements?

Answer 1

The United Nations

Question 2

Why did the Soviet Union choose to occupy a strip of countries on its western border?

Answer 2

As a protective buffer zone

Question 3

What did Winston Churchill call the division between East and West?

Answer 3

the iron curtain

Question 4

What was the name of the policy the U.S. adopted to halt the spread of Communism?

Answer 4

truman doctrine

Question 5

What was the American plan for assisting the rebuilding of western Europe called?

Answer 5

Marshall Plan

Question 6

The Americans were able to “defeat” Soviet aggression by using an airlift into what city?

Answer 6

Berlin

Question 7

What was the name of the military alliance formed by Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada?

Answer 7

NATO: North Atlantic treaty Organization

Question 8

What was the name of the military alliance formed by the U.S.S.R. and its satellites?

Answer 8

The Warsaw Pact

Question 9

What Soviet scientific accomplishment in 1949 stunned the United States?

Answer 9

The invention of the atomic bomb

Question 10

What was brinkmanship?

Answer 10

the willingness to go to the brink or edge of war

Question 11

What spying scandal embarrassed the United States?

Answer 11

U-2 Incident

Question 12

Which side did the United States take in the Chinese Civil War?

Answer 12

the nationalist

Question 13

What became of the Nationalists after their defeat?

Answer 13

Moved to Taiwan

Question 14

Who became the new leader of China?

Answer 14

Mao Zedong

Question 15

What area of Chinese life did the new leader seek to reform first?

Answer 15

The economy

Question 16

What was the name for the plan to expand collective farms?

Answer 16

The Great Leap Forward

Question 17

The Red Guard helped Mao Zedong to implement what major uprising?

Answer 17

Cultural Revolution

Question 18

In 1950 war broke out in what country?

Answer 18

Korea

Question 19

Who was the young nationalist who eventually led North Vietnam?

Answer 19

Hồ Chí Minh

Question 20

What political concept was behind the U.S. willingness to get involved in Vietnam?

Answer 20

The domino effect

Question 21

Who won the war in Vietnam?

Answer 21

North Vietnam(communist)

Question 22

Vietnam tried to extend its brand of Communism into what country?

Answer 22

Cambodia

Question 23

What term is given to a country that is non-aligned (and usually developing economically)?

Answer 23

Third World

Question 24

What are the names of the spy agencies of the U.S. and the Soviet Union (respectively)?

Answer 24

The CIA and KGB (respectively [meaning in order]

Question 25

Who led the revolution in Cuba?

Answer 25

Fidel Castro

Question 26

What failed invasion embarrassed the United States?

Answer 26

Bay of Pigs

Question 27

What event almost resulted in World War III?

Answer 27

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 28

Communist rebels overthrew a U.S.-supported dictator in what Central American country?

Answer 28

Nicaragua

Question 29

Muslim rebels overthrew a U.S.-supported dictator in what Middle Eastern country?

Answer 29

Iran

Question 30

Russians repeated the American mistakes in Vietnam when it started a war in what country?

Answer 30

Afghanistan

Question 31

Who was the Soviet leader who took over after Stalin’s death?

Answer 31

Khrushchev

Question 32

Leonid Brezhnev quickly put down a revolt in what Communist country?

Answer 32

Czechoslovakia

Question 33

Soviet-American relations didn’t improve until the administration of which U.S. President?

Answer 33

President Richard Nixon

Question 34

What is the French word for a lessening of tensions between countries?

Answer 34

detente

Question 35

Soviet-American relations worsened again under the administration of which U.S. President?

Answer 35

President Ronald Reagan