Ideologies in Conflict and the Imposition of Liberalism

Question 1

What was the Berlin Blockade

Answer 1

The U.S.S.R blocking the borders, railways, and roads to prevent people leaving

Question 2

What was the cold war?

Answer 2

A “cold” war where there was no physical war between the two nations. From 1947-1991, a fight between two superpowers and their ideologies, capitalism and communism

Question 3

Why was Josef Stalin mad at berlin being separated into four?

Answer 3

Berlin was in their section but because it was the most powerful, it was decided to be split into four which was not supported y the soviets

Question 4

What is the balance of power?

Answer 4

A distribution of power so that no state becomes more powerful than another

Question 5

What is containment?

Answer 5

The American perspective on limiting the expansion of the communist ideology

Question 6

What is the domino affect?

Answer 6

The theory where if one country gets taken over by an expansionist nation, more countries will be taken over

Question 7

What does espionage mean?

Answer 7

Spy/spying

Question 8

What is expansionism?

Answer 8

The attempt to expand a nation’s territory or the nations influence

Question 9

What is the iron curtain?

Answer 9

The ideological border between nations in Europe

Question 10

What is isolationism?

Answer 10

The policy to limit involvement in other countries affairs

Question 11

What was the Marshall plan?

Answer 11

The American plan to aid countries that were affected by WWII

Question 12

What is a satellite state?

Answer 12

A smaller nation falling under the influence of a superpower

Question 13

What is the sphere of influence?

Answer 13

The territory which is influenced under one main ideology and economic affair

Question 14

What is a superpower?

Answer 14

A particularly powerful nation (the Soviet Union and the United States of America after WWII)

Question 15

What is the truman doctrine

Answer 15

A policy where the U.S.A will help another nation battling communism

Question 16

What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?

Answer 16

Fear that if one country used nuclear weapons, other nations would reciprocate which would destroy the world

Question 17

What was the peace dividen

Answer 17

the though that the millions of dollars that have been spent on the cold war would now be used for humanitarian purposes

Question 18

What is an arms race?

Answer 18

a competition between countries to see who could develop the most nuclear weapons

Question 19

What is brinksmanship?

Answer 19

The act where a government threatens to be able to take an extreme rather than concede in a conflict

Question 20

What does collective security mean?

Answer 20

countries will secure each other

Question 21

What does Detente means?

Answer 21

The act of lessening tensions

Question 22

What does deterrence mean?

Answer 22

The policy of discouraging nations to take military action

Question 23

What is dissuation?

Answer 23

The French policy of keeping nuclear arms for the protection of the state

Question 24

What was Mcarthyism?

Answer 24

The term given to root out potential espionages of foreign nations in American society during the 1950s

Question 25

What is NATO?

Answer 25

An international agreement between nations

Question 26

What is a naval blockage?

Answer 26

When one nations ships blocks the passage for another nations ships

Question 27

What signaled the end of communism in Europe and the end of the cold war?

Answer 27

The fall of the berlin wall

Question 28

What was glasnost?

Answer 28

A policy that encouraged openness and more liberal ideas in Russia

Question 29

What was Perestroika?

Answer 29

A policy that encouraged economic change

Question 30

What does humanitarianism means?

Answer 30

A doctrine that helps improve lives for many people, typically external intervention

Question 31

What is a theocracy?

Answer 31

A nation typically run by religious leaders guided by a religious doctrine

Question 32

What does war on terror mean?

Answer 32

Action against terrorism on the United States

Question 33

Who were the taliban?

Answer 33

A religious political group that ran a coup in A Afghanistan to get control over the country

Question 34

What does ethnocentric mean?

Answer 34

holding your beliefs higher than others and that they are more superior

Question 35

What is a coalition?

Answer 35

A temporary alliance in order to govern a state temporarily