Cold War/Vietnam War

Question 1

Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain

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Made West Germany democratic and East Germany communist

Question 2

found guilty of giving nuclear secrets to Russia

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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg

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Stalin’s Soviet “satellite regions”

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Soviet bloc

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policy to come to the aid of anyone resisting Communism

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Truman Doctrine

Question 5

program of US economic aid to all of Europe to prevent the spread of Communism

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Marshall Plan

Question 6

advocated the containment of Communism

Answer 6

George Kennan

Question 7

an alliance designed to protect Western Europe from Soviet expansion

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NATO

Question 8

Stalin blockades Western Berlin to attempt to win it for Communism

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Berlin blockade

Question 9

Communist alliance of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

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Warsaw Pact

Question 10

Started the Communist revolution in China

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Mao Zedong

Question 11

Soviet leader successor to Stalin

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Krushchev

Question 12

38th Parallel

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the dividing line between North and South Korea

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US commander who pushes North Korean troops back to almost china

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Douglas MacArthur

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coined by John Foster Dulles. Describes how nuclear weapons would destroy everybody if used.

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Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

Question 15

Secret Speech of 1956

Answer 15

Krushchev’s denouncement of Stalin’s policies and purges

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supported diplomacy over threats

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Geneva Summit

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first satellite

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Sputnik

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event where our secret plane was found spying on Russia

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U-2 Spy Plane Incident

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led Communist takeover in Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Krushchev places Soviet missiles in Cuba aimed toward US

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Brezhnev Doctrine

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Russia’s right to intervene in other Communist nations

Question 22

outspoken critic of Communism

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Pope John Paul II

Question 23

declared Vietnam’s independence from France

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Ho Chi Minh

Question 24

Northern Vietnam defeats France here

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Dien Bien Phu

Question 25

Why were we driven to fight against Vietnam with France?

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We wanted to contain communism

Question 26

Soviet Union leader who tried to save it through perestroika, private property, and free markets

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Gorbachev

Question 27

means "economic restructuring"

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Perestroika

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means "political openness/free speech"

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Glasnost

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union that overthrew the Polish Communist Party

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Solidarity, led by Lech Walesa

Question 30

11 of the 15 republics in the Soviet Union

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Commonwealth of Independent States

Question 31

rescued Gorbachev from house arrest/coup

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Boris Yeltsin

Question 32

the process where colonized people in Asia and Africa gained independence from Western imperial rule

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decolonization

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six European nations that banded together to reduce financial dependence on America

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Common Market

Question 34

detente

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a relaxation of international tensions

Question 35

space-based missile defense system

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SDI "Star Wars"