Chapter 17

Question 1

An international organization made up of 48 countries that intended to protect the members against aggression

Answer 1

The United Nations

Question 2

Represented Europe’s division between a mostly democratic Western Europe and a Communist Eastern Europe

Answer 2

Iron curtain

Question 3

A policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and preventing the expansion of communism by President Truman

Answer 3

Containment

Question 4

Truman’s support for countries that rejected communism, caused great controversy

Answer 4

Truman Doctrine

Question 5

Assistance program issued by the US Secretary of State George Marshall that provided food, machines, and other materials to European countries that needed aid

Answer 5

Marshall Plan

Question 6

In 1949, ten Western European nations joined with the US and Canada to form this defensive military alliance

Answer 6

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 7

Alliance including the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania formed in 1955 as a part of the USSR’s own containment policy

Answer 7

Warsaw Pact

Question 8

The willingness to go to the brink, or edge, of war

Answer 8

Brinkmanship

Question 9

Event when the Soviets shot down a U-2 plane and its pilot, Francis Gary Powers

Answer 9

U-2 Incident

Question 10

Leader of the Communist Party in China

Answer 10

Mao Zedong

Question 11

Leader of the Nationalist Party in China

Answer 11

Jiang Jieshi

Question 12

Large collective farms

Answer 12

Communes

Question 13

Millions of students that responded to the call of revolution by Mao Zedong and formed militias

Answer 13

Red Guards

Question 14

The major uprising of the Red Guards

Answer 14

Cultural Revolution

Question 15

The dividing line of north and South Korea

Answer 15

38th Parallel

Question 16

Leader of the UN and US forces in the pacific

Answer 16

Douglas MacArthur

Question 17

Communist leader in Vietnam

Answer 17

Ho Chi Minh

Question 18

How President Eisenhower described the threat of Communism in the rest of Asia

Answer 18

Domino Theory

Question 19

Leader of the anti-Communist government in Vietnam, who literally not a single person liked

Answer 19

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 20

Nixon’s plan for the US troops to gradually pull out while the South Vietnamese increased combat

Answer 20

Vietnamization

Question 21

Communist rebels in Cambodia

Answer 21

Khemer Rouge

Question 22

Group of developing nations, often newly independent, who were not aligned with the two superpowers, the US, and the USSR

Answer 22

Third World

Question 23

Uninvolved countries

Answer 23

nonaligned nations

Question 24

Started a revolution in Cuba and became a communist dictator

Answer 24

Fidel Castro

Question 25

Dictator of Nicaragua

Answer 25

Anastasio Somoza

Question 26

Sandinista leader

Answer 26

Daniel Ortega

Question 27

Iran's leader who embraced Western governments

Answer 27

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Question 28

Leader of this religious opposition in Iran

Answer 28

Auatollah Ruholla Khomeini

Question 29

President of the US in the 1960s

Answer 29

John F. Kennedy

Question 30

Vice President of John F. Kennedy, became president in 1963

Answer 30

Lyndon Johnson

Question 31

A policy of lessened Cold War tensions, replaced brinkmanship

Answer 31

Detente

Question 32

President from 69 to 74

Answer 32

President M. Nixon

Question 33

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Answer 33

SALT

Question 34

Fierce anti-communist US President that took office in 1981

Answer 34

Ronald Reagan

Question 35

Named after a popular movie was never put into effect, SDI, program to protect America against missiles

Answer 35

Star Wars

Question 36

Dominant Soviet leader after Stalin's death

Answer 36

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 37

Began after Khrushchev denounced Stalin's ways with the Soviets, purging the country of Stalin's memory

Answer 37

Destalinization

Question 38

Replaced Khrushchev, adopted repressive domestic policies

Answer 38

Leonid Brezhnev