Final Comp

Question 1

The Cold War (date)

Answer 1

1945 - 1991

Question 2

Events surrounding the Cold War

Answer 2

From around the Potsdam Conference of 07/45 (July 1945) to the Soviet Collapse of 12/91 (December 1991)

Question 3

When the US-sponsored Marshall Plan was announced

Answer 3

1947

Question 4

Dates for when the Marshall Plan was in effect

Answer 4

1948 - 1951

Question 5

The Korean War (date)

Answer 5

1950 - 1953

Question 6

Dates for the USA’s main involvement in Vietnam

Answer 6

1964 - 1975

Question 7

The “fall” of the Berlin Wall

Answer 7

November 1989

Question 8

Original construction of the Berlin Wall

Answer 8

1961

Question 9

Detente

Answer 9

a French word meaning a relaxation of tensions or strained relations

Question 10

Domino theory

Answer 10

theory in US foreign policy after WW II stating that the “fall” of a state to communism
would precipitate the fall of governments in neighboring states – as a row of dominoes: one falls, others fall

Question 11

Glasnost

Answer 11

Russian policy of greater openness

Question 12

Perestroika

Answer 12

Russian policy of restructuring

Question 13

SALT

Answer 13

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

agreements between the US & USSR aimed at limiting the
production/deployment of nuclear weapons

Question 14

Watergate

Answer 14

a building in Washington, DC, the scene of a bungled bugging attempt during the 1972 election campaign

Question 15

True or False: The United Nations has a Security Council

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Amount of permanent member states in the UN Security Council

Answer 16

5

Question 17

Rights of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council

Answer 17

They possess veto rights

Question 18

True or False: Western Europe was to be a buffer zone to communist advancement

Answer 18

False; it was Eastern Europe

Question 19

True or False: After WW II, the “liberating” Soviets (Red Army) supported the establishment of communist regimes

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Cold War

Answer 20

a state of existing tension between the Soviet Union & US

Question 21

Why the Cold War was cold

Answer 21

Because it falls short of a shooting war directly between the USSR & the US

Question 22

Aspects of the Cold War

Answer 22

Development of a bipolar aliance system
It became a conflict through proxy

Question 23

True or False: After WWII Germany was a united land

Answer 23

False; it was divided

Question 24

How many occupation zones was Germany carved into by the victorious Allies

Answer 24

4

Question 25

True or False: Berlin was located inside the Soviet Union

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Number of sectors Berlin was divided into

Answer 26

4

Question 27

Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

Answer 27

"An Iron Continent has descended across the Continent"

Question 28

Was the Truman Doctrine applied to Eastern European nations that already fell?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

Pronounces what becomes known as the Truman Doctrine

Answer 29

President Harry Truman

Question 30

The Foreign Assistance Act aka

Answer 30

The Marshall Plan

Question 31

The success rate of the Marshall Plan

Answer 31

Highly successful

Question 32

The core of US policy toward the Soviet Union

Answer 32

Containment

Question 33

The Berlin Blockade

Answer 33

Stalin closed surface access leading to West Berlin

Question 34

The US' response to the Berlin Blockade

Answer 34

The Berlin Airlift

Question 35

NATO

Answer 35

North Atlantic Treaty Organization An alliance that regards an attack on one as an attack on all

Question 36

MAD

Answer 36

Mutual Assured Destruction, the dominating Cold War arms race policy

Question 37

Leader of the Chinese communists

Answer 37

Mao Tse-Tung

Question 38

Leader of the Chinese Nationalists

Answer 38

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 39

Combatants of the Chinese Civil War

Answer 39

The Communists and Nationalists

Question 40

Loser of the Chinese Civil War

Answer 40

Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists

Question 41

Formosa aka

Answer 41

Taiwan

Question 42

Location of the Chinese Nationalist's withdrawal

Answer 42

The island of Formosa

Question 43

Ignited a Red Scare

Answer 43

Senator Joseph McCarthy

Question 44

The Red Scare

Answer 44

Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of communists employed by the State Department

Question 45

The Korean War

Answer 45

in a surprise attack, communist North Korea attacked non-communist South Korea & pushed far south

Question 46

How the Korean War Ended

Answer 46

The fighting stabilized and an armistice was signed

Question 47

Which side did Chinese troops help in the Korean Wa

Answer 47

North Korea

Question 48

Warsaw Pact

Answer 48

A treaty of mutual defense and military aid [signed by communist states of Eastern Europe under Soviet leadership]

Question 49

Represents the USSR's formalized military alliance

Answer 49

Warsaw Pact

Question 50

True or False: USSR leader Nikita Krushchev openly denounced Stalin

Answer 50

True

Question 51

World's first manmade satellite

Answer 51

Sputnik

Question 52

Launched Sputnik into orbit

Answer 52

The USSR

Question 53

The first man launched into space (and orbit)

Answer 53

Yuri Gagarin (Russian)

Question 54

The design and purpose of the Berlin Wall

Answer 54

It encircled West Berlin and was designed to stop defections to West Berlin

Question 55

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 55

US intelligence detects offensive nuclear missile sites in Cuba; JFK wants the missiles/bases removed & imposes a strict quarantine (blockade) of materials to Cuba; Khrushchev ordered the Soviet ships to turn back

Question 56

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Answer 56

Passed by the US Congress to allow President Johnson's "Escalation"

Question 57

When was President Nixon's "surprise" visit to China

Answer 57

1972

Question 58

Iran Hostage Crisis

Answer 58

Iranians seized US Embassy in Tehran taking 66 US citizens hostage

Question 59

Afghan guerillas

Answer 59

Mujahidin

Question 60

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Answer 60

Afghan guerrillas with US arms waged jihad against troops armed/supported by the USSR

Question 61

Abbreviation for Vietnam

Answer 61

V

Question 62

Indo-China

Answer 62

Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia

Question 63

European power with colonial domination in Indo-China

Answer 63

France

Question 64

Where France was decisively defeated in the Vietnam conflict

Answer 64

Dien Bien Phu

Question 65

Base of North Vietnam

Answer 65

Hanoi

Question 66

Ruled communist North Vietnam

Answer 66

Ho Chi Minh

Question 67

Base of South Vietnam

Answer 67

Saigon

Question 68

Did the US support North or South Vietnam

Answer 68

South Vietnam

Question 69

True or False: There was only one Vietnamese war (in the Cold War era)

Answer 69

False; a new Vietnamese War began when communists in South V rebelled against the South V govt.

Question 70

Viet Cong

Answer 70

Communist guerilla group operating in South V

Question 71

True or False: Vietnam was exempted from Containment (Domino Theory)

Answer 71

False

Question 72

Supported North Vietnam

Answer 72

China and the Soviet Union

Question 73

True or False: The Tonkin Gulf Resolution made [The Vietnam War] the era of "escalation"

Answer 73

True

Question 74

Developments in the Vietnam war escalation

Answer 74

The TET Offensive Viet Cong and North V forces seized urban areas in South V

Question 75

The US cease-fire agreement in the Vietnam War

Answer 75

American troops were removed in 60 days

Question 76

What Saigon was renamed after it fell to communist forces

Answer 76

Ho Chi Minh City