710 Q1

Question 1

Who allowed free markets and China prospered under his rule?

Answer 1

Deng Xiaoping

Question 2

During the Korean War, the United States supported what country?

Answer 2

South Korea

Question 3

Who was the first Russian in space?

Answer 3

Yuri Gagarin

Question 4

who was the communist leader of Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 4

Fidel Castro

Question 5

Who was the President who withdrew US troops from Vietnam?

Answer 5

Richard Nixon

Question 6

What were two problems that Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill discuss after World War II?

Answer 6

1) Finding homes for people 2) how to reestablish governments in former Nazi countries

Question 7

China and the Soviet Union experienced greater freedom and openness under communism when?

Answer 7

In the lat 1900s

Question 8

Mao’s economic program that ended in disaster was called what?

Answer 8

Great Leap Forward

Question 9

During the Korean War, China and the Soviet Union supported what country?

Answer 9

North Korea

Question 10

Stalin supported what form of government?

Answer 10

Communism

Question 11

The Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe composed what?

Answer 11

the Eastern Bloc

Question 12

What were three characteristics of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What two world leaders opposed Communism?

Answer 13

Roosevelt and Churchill

Question 14

Tensions between communist and Western governments increased when?

Answer 14

As African nations established governments

Question 15

The first inhabitants of Australia were called what?

Answer 15

Aborigines

Question 16

The interior of Australia was called what?

Answer 16

the Outback

Question 17

The belief that if one country becomes communist, its neighboring countries will soon follow is called what?

Answer 17

the Domino Theory

Question 18

Who at first called for reform and greater freedom in the communist world, but then crushed reform efforts?

Answer 18

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 19

After the Red Army won the civil war, what country was formed?

Answer 19

The Soviet Union

Question 20

What was formed to protect Western nations from communist attacks?

Answer 20

NATO

Question 21

Who was the first freely elected leader in Russian history?

Answer 21

Boris Yeltsin

Question 22

What was produced by the fear that communists were undermining the US government?

Answer 22

Red Scare

Question 23

Australia was claimed by what country?

Answer 23

Britain

Question 24

During the Vietnam war, China and the Soviet Union supported what region?

Answer 24

North Vietnam

Question 25

Who worked with President Reagan to reduce nuclear war threat?

Answer 25

Mihail Gorbachev

Question 26

What was the Cold War?

Answer 26

mostly a war of threats between communism and democracy

Question 27

What was formed by communists to protect them from the West?

Answer 27

Warsaw Pact

Question 28

During the Vietnam war, the United States supported what region?

Answer 28

South Vietnam

Question 29

Who was the leader of the communist army who conquered China in 1949?

Answer 29

Mao Zedong