Chapter 28

Question 1

containment

Answer 1

foreign policy strategy aimed to containing the spread of communism

Question 2

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

Answer 2

when soviet union blocked off land awnd water access from west berlin, causing the US to use airlifts to supply those within eastern berlin with food and resources.

Question 3

Berlin Wall

Answer 3

built by east germany later in the war than the berlin blockade, meant to stop the emigration of ppl into west germany bc west germany was better.

Question 4

Cuban MIssile Crisis

Answer 4

the closest that the soviet union and the US got to nuclear warfare, when the us saw that the soviet union was building up arms in Cuba.

Question 5

Domino Theory

Answer 5

theory that said if one country became communist, slowly all the countries would become communist around it.

Question 6

Sputnik

Answer 6

first ever artificial satelite, sent into orbit by the soviet union, launch triggered start of space race, and intensified relations between US andsoviet because it was like they were competing for who had better technology.

Question 7

Josip Tito

Answer 7

first president of yugoslavia, strengthened the communist rule of yugoslavia and improved relations with western and nonaligned countries.

Question 8

Wladyslaw Gomulka

Answer 8

leader of poland, one of the key leaders of the warsaw pact

Question 9

Imry Nagy

Answer 9

opposed soviet union, one of leaders of the hungarian revolution against hungarian government, executed by soviet authorities.

Question 10

Alexander Dubcek

Answer 10

leader of the prague spring, led to many reforms in czhecoslovakia

Question 11

Prague Spring

Answer 11

series of reforsm in czechoslovakia, led by alexander dubcek.

Question 12

SImone DeBeauvoir

Answer 12

feminist, writer, philosophist, had big impact.

Question 13

Betty friedan

Answer 13

big impactful feminist