Exams

Question 1

Domino Theory

Answer 1

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

Question 2

guerilla warefare

Answer 2

A hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes

Question 3

Truman Doctrine

Answer 3

1947, President Truman’s policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

Question 4

Marshall Plan

Answer 4

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

Question 5

satellite states

Answer 5

Eastern European states under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Question 6

Yalta Conference

Answer 6

1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war

Question 7

Postdam Conference

Answer 7

This is the conference where Stalin, Truman, and Churchill came together to decide how Germany would be administered. Their goals were to establish order, settle peace treaty issues, and deal with the effects of WWII.

Question 8

Berlin crisis

Answer 8

Soviets tried to remove the Allies from Berlin by cutting off access to the city

Question 9

Berlin Wall

Answer 9

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

Question 10

Arms Race

Answer 10

Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons (nuclear weapons)

Question 11

space race

Answer 11

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

Question 12

NATO

Answer 12

an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country (USSR); US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

Question 13

Warsaw Pact

Answer 13

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO. To reinforce communist dominance countries

Question 14

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 14

The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.

Question 15

Non-Proliferation Treaty

Answer 15

A treaty that created a framework for controlling the spread of nuclear materials and expertise between U.S and USSR

Question 16

Bay of Pigs

Answer 16

In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. CIA landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion ended in disaster.

Question 17

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

Answer 17

Treaty signed in 1972 by the United States and the Soviet Union to slow the nuclear arms race.and limit production of nuclear missiles

Question 18

Vietnamization

Answer 18

President Richard Nixons strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces

Question 19

Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty

Answer 19

destroy all nuclear missiles by 1991

Question 20

conventional forces in Europe

Answer 20

ending Cold War

Question 21

Tet Offensive

Answer 21

The Vietcong’s planned an attack during a major Vietnamese holiday. Attacking 30 U.S targets and cities in South Vietnam

Question 22

Rolling Thunder

Answer 22

Bombing campaign escalating against North Vietnam. target was the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and network of trails, bridges, and shelters in North Vietnam to Cambodia. This bombing had little effect on Vietcong and they began to make underground tunnel systems.

Question 23

Lai Massacre

Answer 23

Mass murder of unarmed civilians. Operation by the US military in Vietnam.

Question 24

Mixed marriages act

Answer 24

Forbade marriages between whites and those of another race

Question 25

Immortality Amendment Act

Answer 25

Prohibited sexual intercourse between whites and other races

Question 26

Population Registration Act

Answer 26

1950, everyone in South Africa must carry a racial id, based on Black, Colored, Indian, and White

Question 27

Group areas act

Answer 27

Physical separation of races. Creating different areas for people of colour (poorly maintained) and whites

Question 28

The natives act

Answer 28

People of colour must carry a Dompass everywhere they travel

Question 29

Bantu Education Act

Answer 29

All black and people of color’s schools were brought under the control of the government. The whites schools were privately owned

Question 30

Reservation of Separate Amenities Act

Answer 30

Forced segregation in all public amenities, public buildings, and public transport with the aim of eliminating contact between whites and other races

Question 31

Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act

Answer 31

This apartheid era policy established eight black homelands, or Bantustans, one for each of these tribal groups. All blacks became citizens of one of these homelands. None of the homelands allowed for full democratic participation.

Question 32

Sharpeville Massacre

Answer 32

1960 killing of 60 ANC protesters by police, turning point in the anti-apartheid movement