710 Q1 Flashcards
Who allowed free markets and China prospered under his rule?
Deng Xiaoping
During the Korean War, the United States supported what country?
South Korea
Who was the first Russian in space?
Yuri Gagarin
who was the communist leader of Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis?
Fidel Castro
Who was the President who withdrew US troops from Vietnam?
Richard Nixon
What were two problems that Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill discuss after World War II?
1) Finding homes for people 2) how to reestablish governments in former Nazi countries
China and the Soviet Union experienced greater freedom and openness under communism when?
In the lat 1900s
Mao’s economic program that ended in disaster was called what?
Great Leap Forward
During the Korean War, China and the Soviet Union supported what country?
North Korea
Stalin supported what form of government?
Communism
The Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe composed what?
the Eastern Bloc
What were three characteristics of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1) It nearly sparked nuclear war 2) the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba 3) it was a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States
What two world leaders opposed Communism?
Roosevelt and Churchill
Tensions between communist and Western governments increased when?
As African nations established governments
The first inhabitants of Australia were called what?
Aborigines
The interior of Australia was called what?
the Outback
The belief that if one country becomes communist, its neighboring countries will soon follow is called what?
the Domino Theory
Who at first called for reform and greater freedom in the communist world, but then crushed reform efforts?
Nikita Khrushchev
After the Red Army won the civil war, what country was formed?
The Soviet Union
What was formed to protect Western nations from communist attacks?
NATO
Who was the first freely elected leader in Russian history?
Boris Yeltsin
What was produced by the fear that communists were undermining the US government?
Red Scare
Australia was claimed by what country?
Britain
During the Vietnam war, China and the Soviet Union supported what region?
North Vietnam
Who worked with President Reagan to reduce nuclear war threat?
Mihail Gorbachev
What was the Cold War?
mostly a war of threats between communism and democracy
What was formed by communists to protect them from the West?
Warsaw Pact
During the Vietnam war, the United States supported what region?
South Vietnam
Who was the leader of the communist army who conquered China in 1949?
Mao Zedong
