cold war test

Question 1

policy aimed at restricting the spread of communism

Answer 1

containment

Question 2

alliance of the US, Canada, Wester Europe as a defensive alliance against soviet attack

Answer 2

NATO

Question 3

Suspicion and hostility between the communist and western nations, waged by political and economic means instead of weapons

Answer 3

cold war

Question 4

Lyndon Jhonson’s program for social reform

Answer 4

Great society

Question 5

periods of temporary business slow down and increasing unemployment

Answer 5

recessions

Question 6

Atlee, Truman, and Stalin

Answer 6

big three

Question 7

trials in which remaining Nazi leaders were held accountable for their crimes

Answer 7

Nurember Trials

Question 8

economy in which individuals make economic decisions

Answer 8

Market Economy

Question 9

Network of radar on the arctic circle that provides an early warning of an air attack

Answer 9

DEW line

Question 10

economy in which the government makes economic decisions

Answer 10

Command economy

Question 11

power to defeat a measure with a single vote

Answer 11

Veto Power

Question 12

Period in early 1968 Czechoslovakia when promised reforms were crushed by the soviet military

Answer 12

Prague Spring

Question 13

Alliance of the US and Southeast Asian nations for protection from soviet attack

Answer 13

SEATO

Question 14

Body charged with maintaining international peace and security in the UN

Answer 14

Security Council

Question 15

defensive alliance of the USSR and Eastern Europe

Answer 15

Warsaw Pact

Question 16

US plan to rebuild Europe after WWII

Answer 16

Marshall Plan

Question 17

Communist leader of cuba

Answer 17

Fidel Castro

Question 18

Plan to rebuild Easter Europe after WWII; Soviet response to the marshall plan

Answer 18

COMECON

Question 19

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

Answer 19

welfare state

Question 20

Policy of removing Nazis from positions of authority in government, buisness, and education

Answer 20

Denazification

Question 21

Communist information Bureau, which included all European communist parties

Answer 21

Cominform

Question 22

Inter continental ballistic missile

Answer 22

ICBM

Question 23

Leader of Czechoslovakia deposed in the Prague Spring of 1968

Answer 23

Alexander Dubcek

Question 24

Leader of soviet union during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 24

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Charles de Gaulle

Question 26

Leader of West Germany during its “economic miracle”

Answer 26

Komrad Adenaur

Question 27

Three conflicts the US became involved in as a result of its policy of containment

Answer 27

Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 28

What countries have a veto on the UN Security Council

Answer 28

USA, UK, Soviet Union, China

Question 29

legislative and deliberate body of the UN

Answer 29

general assembly