Civil War Facts

Question 1

Iran

Answer 1

Uk and USSR still have troops on the ground, USSR refuses to leave

Question 2

Turkey

Answer 2

stalin courts country with control of bosporus and dardanelles

Question 3

Greece

Answer 3

Communist insurgents start civil war, stalin refrains from assisting

Question 4

Marshal Plan

Answer 4

Economic assistance to post war Europe, stave of communis approachment

Question 5

Nato 1949

Answer 5

military alliance planned to protect against attack within Europe and established East and West Germany

Question 6

NSC - 68

Answer 6

Truman foreign policy that focused on building military superiority and protecting the western hemisphere.

Question 7

Communist victory in china

Answer 7

agreement of friendship with stalin in 1950

Question 8

Khrushchev

Answer 8

destalinization and coexistence

Question 9

Warsaw Pact

Answer 9

response to nato, mutual defense treaty for soviet and satellite states

Question 10

Poland

Answer 10

1956, Breaks free from soviet control and gains independence.

Question 11

Hungary

Answer 11

Follows poland’s example, but does not have global stage and is crushed violently

Question 12

Brinkmanship

Answer 12

U.S spy plane is shot down coexistence turns into confrontation

Question 13

Cuban revolution

Answer 13

Fidel Castro takes power and forges relationship with USSR on path to socialism

Question 14

Prague Spring

Answer 14

Czechoslovakia institutes reforms opening up personal freedoms. Their is a resulting disulisment

Question 15

Sino-soviet split

Answer 15

Soviet influence purged in cultural revolution, 1964

Question 16

Lazer guided weapon in space

Answer 16

Front by the U.S that forces Soviet Union to increase military spending

Question 17

Martial Law in Poland

Answer 17

1000s protest against Communist government,

Question 18

Gorbachev’s reforms

Answer 18

improve standing of living and cut costs

Question 19

Perestroika

Answer 19

restructure, decentralize power, and new market economy. Also elected leaders

Question 20

Coup in 1991

Answer 20

dissolution of soviet union