chp 33 test

Question 1

united nations

Answer 1

world organization for ed to prevent war

Question 2

iron curtain

Answer 2

division between eastern and western europe during the cold war

Question 3

containment

Answer 3

policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism

Question 4

truman doctrine

Answer 4

policy of giving aid to countries threatened by communism

Question 5

marshall plan

Answer 5

plan to give aid to european countries to help them recover

Question 6

cold war

Answer 6

state of tension and mistrust between the united states and the soviet union

Question 7

NATO

Answer 7

military alliance including the united states, canada, and western europe

Question 8

warsaw pact

Answer 8

military alliance between the soviet union and eastern europe

Question 9

brinkmanship

Answer 9

willingness on the part of the superpower to go to the edge of war

Question 10

mao zedong

Answer 10

communist leader who defeated the nationalists and led the people’s republic of china

Question 11

jiang jieshi

Answer 11

nationalist leader who set up a new government in taiwan

Question 12

commune

Answer 12

large farm in china in which many families work the land and live together

Question 13

red guards

Answer 13

young chinese students who carried out the cultural revolution

Question 14

cultural revolution

Answer 14

uprising in china between 1966 and 1976 that aimed to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal

Question 15

38th parallel

Answer 15

line that separated north korea and south korea

Question 16

douglas macarthur

Answer 16

leader of the united nations forces during the korean war

Question 17

hi chi minh

Answer 17

vietnamese nationalist who drove the french out of vietnam and who led north vietnam

Question 18

domino theory

Answer 18

theory that nations were like a row of dominos: if one fell to communism, the others would fall too

Question 19

vietcong

Answer 19

communist rebel in south vietnamese who were supported by north vietnam

Question 20

ngo dinh diem

Answer 20

leader of the anti-communist government of south vietnam

Question 21

vietnamization

Answer 21

nixon’s plan for gradually wothdrawing US troops from vietnam and replacing them with south vietnamese troops

Question 22

khmer rouge

Answer 22

communist rebels who set up a brutal government in cambodia

Question 23

third world

Answer 23

developing nations in africa, asia, and latin america

Question 24

nonaligned nations

Answer 24

countries that did not take sides with either the united states or the soviet union

Question 25

fidel castro

Answer 25

communist lead of cuba

Question 26

anastasio somoza

Answer 26

nicaraguan dictator

Question 27

daniel ortega

Answer 27

leader of communist rebels in nicaragua

Question 28

ayatollah ruholla khomeini

Answer 28

muslim leader who overthrew the shah of iran

Question 29

nikita khrushchev

Answer 29

leader of the soviet union after stalin

Question 30

leonid brezhnev

Answer 30

soviet leader after khrushchev

Question 31

john F. kennedy

Answer 31

president of the united states after eisenhower

Question 32

lyndon johnson

Answer 32

president of the united states after kennedy

Question 33

détente

Answer 33

policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers

Question 34

richard M. nixon

Answer 34

president of the united states after johnson

Question 35

SALT

Answer 35

talks to limit nuclear arms in the united states and the soviet union

Question 36

ronald reagan

Answer 36

president of the united states after carter