Chapter 15

Question 1

Cold War - why was it terrifying

Answer 1

Always close to a nuclear war break out

Question 2

Cuban Revolution - results

Answer 2

Communists overthrew Cuban government;

Political freedom was restricted

Question 3

Red scare

Answer 3

American fear of communists invading the US

Question 4

Marshall Plan

Answer 4

US aid given to European countries

Question 5

Mao Zedong

Answer 5

Communist leader of China;
Started The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution;
Both plans failed

Question 6

Who won the Vietnam war

Answer 6

North Vietnam

Question 7

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 7

Soviet dictator;

Initiated reforms on Communism (freedom of speech) (economy reforms)

Question 8

Lech Walesa

Answer 8

Led Labor movement in Poland and later became president

Question 9

Warsaw Pact

Answer 9

Military alliance between the Soviet Union and communist East Europe

Question 10

Purpose of SALT talks and STAR treaty

Answer 10

Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty : limited the number of nuclear weapons a country could hold

Question 11

Dentente

Answer 11

American and Soviet arms control agreements led to an era of the relaxations of tensions

Question 12

Suburbanization

Answer 12

The movement to communities outside an urban core

Question 13

What was NATO

Answer 13

It provided collective security against a threat of attack by the Soviet Union

Question 14

Japan’s government after WW2

Answer 14

Japan’s new constitution established a parliamentary democracy

Question 15

American-Chinese relations - why did the US reach out diplomatically

Answer 15

To gain strategic advantage and to isolate the Soviets

Question 16

Purpose of Mao Zedong’s agricultural communes

Answer 16

To increase Chinese productions

Question 17

38th parallel

Answer 17

The coordinate points where Korea was divided at after WW2

Question 18

Affect of Tet Offensive on American people

Answer 18

Made US citizens want the US to pull out of the war

Question 19

What did Khmer Rouge do in Cambodia

Answer 19

Overthrew Cambodian government;

Committed genocide

Question 20

Soviet Union In what country did the USSR experience their own “Vietnam”

Answer 20

Afghanistan

Question 21

Czechoslovakia - why did it split up into two nations

Answer 21

They had separate ethnic groups, languages, cultures, etc.

Question 22

USSR’s breakup - how did China change after this

Answer 22

Began embracing capitalism

Question 23

Nuclear disarmament - when in the Cold War did the US and the USSR agree to this

Answer 23

During the last 2 decades of the war

Question 24

Purpose of European community

Answer 24

To establish free trade in European countries

Question 25

How did Japan develop a trade surplus after WW2

Answer 25

Exports and high protective tariffs

Question 26

What helped Mao to triumph in the Chinese Civil war

Answer 26

Chinese citizen support (they were mostly peasants)

Question 27

Why is North Korea still isolated and poor

Answer 27

Still hard line totalitarian communism

Question 28

What was the domino theory

Answer 28

The fear that the fall of Vietnam to communism would make other nations communist (turned out to be true - Laos)

Question 29

Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms - results

Answer 29

Led to the break up of the Soviet Union

Question 30

European coal and steel community

Answer 30

Helped spur economic growth across Western Europe by eliminating tariffs

Question 31

Pusan perimeter

Answer 31

The UN stopped the North Korean advance at this perimeter