Cold War

Question 1

Alliance of US, Canada, Western Europe as a defensive alliance against a Soviet attack

Answer 1

NATO

Question 2

a society preoccupied with buying goods

Answer 2

consumer society

Question 3

body charged with maintaining international peace and security in the UN

Answer 3

Security Council

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communist leader of Cuba

Answer 4

Fidel Castro

Question 5

country in which the government takes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens

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welfare state

Question 6

Atlee, Truman, and Stalin

Answer 6

Big Three

Question 7

economy in which individuals make economic decisions

Answer 7

capitalism

Question 8

economy in which the government makes all economic decisions

Answer 8

communism

Question 9

Has a security council veto

Answer 9

China, Soviet Union, France, US

Question 10

Communist Information Bureau, which included all European communist parties

Answer 10

Comintern

Question 11

Defensive alliance of the USSR and Eastern Europe

Answer 11

Warsaw Pact

Question 12

group of nations with a common purpose

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bloc

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Inter-continental Ballistic Missile

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ICBM

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Leader of Czechoslovakia deposed in the Prague Spring of 1968

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Alexander Dubcek

Question 15

Leader of Free French Forces during WWII and president of France after WWII

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Charles DeGaulle

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Leader of West Germany during its “economic miracle”

Answer 16

Konrad Adenauer

Question 17

legislative and deliberative body of the United Nations

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General Assembly

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Lyndon Johnson’s program of social reform

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Great Society

Question 19

Network of radar on the Arctic Circle that provides an early warning of an air attack

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DEW Line

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Period in early 1968 Czechoslovakia when promised reforms were crushed by the Soviet Military

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Prague Spring

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Leader of the Soviet Union duiring the Cuban Missle Crisis

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Nikita Khruschev

Question 22

Plan to rebuild Eastern Europe after WWII; Soviet response to the Marshall Plan

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COMECON

Question 23

policy aimed at restricting the spread of communism

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containment

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policy of removing Nazis from positions of authority in goverment, business, and education

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denazification

Question 25

power to defeat a measure with a single vote

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veto

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suspicion and hostility between the communist ans western nations, wage by political and economic means rather than weapons

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Cold War

Question 27

US plan to rebuild Europe after WWII

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Marshall Plan

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Belief that if South Vietnam fell to communism the other countries of Southeast Asia would fall as well

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domino theory

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Treaty among the nations of central and west Asia to prevent the spread of communism

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CENTO

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periods of temporary business slow down and incresing unemployment

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recessions

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countries of Eastern Europe politically dependent on the USSR

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satellite states

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postion of the U.S. government to prevent the spread of communism and to aid countries in that effort

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Truman Doctrine

Question 33

the manufacture of machine and equipment for use in factories and mines

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heavy industry

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communist dictator of Yugoslavia

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Tito

Question 35

policy of being so militarily strong that no one would attack you

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deterrence

Question 36

Alliance between US Great Britain France Pakistan Thailand Philippines Australia and New Zealand

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SEATO

Question 37

Alliance of Australia New Zealand and the US

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ANZUS

Question 38

Strategic arms and limitations

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SALT

Question 39

Phase of relaxed tensions and improved relations between 2 adversaries

Answer 39

Detente