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1
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What 3 things were agreed to at the Yalta Conference and by whom

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Germany would undergo demilitarization and denazification, Stalin agreed that France would have a fourth occupation zone in Germany if it was formed from the American and the British zones, Agreement to the priority of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany

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What organization replaced the League of Nations

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United nations

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Where are UN headquarters located

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New york

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Who are the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council

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China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States

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Who had zones of occupation in Germany after WWII

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Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east

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What speech is viewed as the start of the Cold War and who gave the speech

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Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent

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What were the satellite countries

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East europe

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Who were the main countries involved in the Cold War even though they never fought each other

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United state and russia

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9
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Whose occupation zones made up East Germany

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russia

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Whose occupation zones made up West Germany

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France, great britian, US

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Explain the Berlin Blockade/Airlift

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The Western Allies responded with a massive airlift to come to West Berlin’s aid

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What was the foreign policy of containment

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the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism

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What was the Marshall Plan

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proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe

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What was the Truman Doctrine

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the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces

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15
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What structure was viewed as a symbol of the Cold War

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The berlin wall

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16
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What was MAD

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Mutual assured destruction

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17
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What communist leader took over China in 1949

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Mao

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Who led the nationalists in China? On what island will they end up

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Chiang Kai-shek, taiwan

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What was the Red Guard

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The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong

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Who supported each side in the Korean War

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North Korea was supported by the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States

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Why did President Truman fire General MacArthur

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Truman felt that his decision was just because MacArthur had overstepped his authority

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Along what line of latitude is Korea divided and What is the area between the two Koreas called

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the 38th parallel, demilitarized zone

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23
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Who led the communists in Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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What was the domino theory

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if one country fell to Communism, the surrounding countries would fall, like dominoes

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Which side did the U.S. support in the Vietnam War

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South vietnam

26
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Who were the Vietcong

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the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam

27
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What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and why was it important

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authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia

28
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What was President Nixon’s idea of Vietnamization

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a program designed to shift the responsibility of the war from the U.S. to the South Vietnamese, allowing the United States to gradually withdraw its troops from Vietnam

29
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What happened at the Bay of Pigs

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abortive invasion of Cuba

30
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Explain the Cuban Missile Crisis

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the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities

31
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What happened in the Iranian Revolution

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toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic

32
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What happened to the U.S. embassy in Teheran

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Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans

33
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What was the Prague Spring

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a strong attempt by Dubček to grant additional rights to the citizens of Czechoslovakia in an act of partial decentralization of the economy and democratization

34
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What was the Brezhnev Doctrine

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Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to “socialist rule” in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to all of them, and therefore, it justified the intervention of fellow socialist states

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What was the policy of détente and who started it

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formal agreements on arms control and the security of Europe, U.S. president Richard Nixon

36
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How was India partitioned by Great Britain

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a central and southern part, where Hindus formed the majority. two parts in the north-west and north-east that were mostly Muslim

37
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Who were the Mau Mau

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members had supposedly pledged to slaughter Europeans and drive them out of Africa

38
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Who was the National Liberation Front and what did they want

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to overthrow the government of South Vietnam and reunite North and South Vietnam

39
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What was apartheid

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in South Africa was the racial segregation under the all-white government

40
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Who was Nelson Mandela

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South Africa’s first democratically elected president

41
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What was the purpose of the Truth and Reconciliation

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provided those directly or indirectly affected by the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools system with an opportunity to share their stories and experiences

42
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Who created the nation of Israel and why? Whose land was taken

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The British promised the Jewish people a country in the Balfour Declaration and also promised the Palestinians independence.

43
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What is the PLO and who was their leader

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Yasser Arafat, The Palestine Liberation Organization is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people.

44
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Who reached a peace agreement at the Camp David Accords

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem

45
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Who reached a peace agreement at the Oslo Peace Accords

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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization

46
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Who invaded Afghanistan in 1979

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Soviet union

47
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What group took over most of Afghanistan by 1998

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taliban

48
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Why did the Persian Gulf War start? Who was the leader of the invading country

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Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait

49
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What terrorist group planned and carried out the September 11th attacks on the U.S. andWho was the leader of that group

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Al queda, bin laden

50
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What countries did the U.S. invade in the War on Terror

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Afghanistan and Iraq

51
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Who was the Premier of the Soviet Union when the Cold War ended

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Nikolai Ryzhkov

52
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What were glasnost and perestroika

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Perestroika was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Glasnost was taken to mean increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union

53
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What was the first satellite to overthrow its communist government

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poland

54
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What is the symbolic end of the Cold War

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Berlin wall down

55
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What satellite country ended up in a civil war after overthrowing their communist government

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Who committed genocide during this civil war and against whom? Bosnia, Serbs in Bosnia on muslims in bosnia

56
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What Russian province tried to secede in 1994

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President Yeltsin

57
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Who is the current President of Russia

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putin

58
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What territory did Russia annex in 2014 and to whom did that territory belong

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Crimean Peninsula which was part of the Ukraine

59
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Where did the Chinese military kill hundreds of peaceful protests in 1989

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Tiananmen Square

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