Social Studies Cold War Test

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

Rivalry for world leadership between US and USSR from 1945 - 1990 called “COLD” because they did not fight with weapons.

Question 2

containment

Answer 2

US foreign policy that advocated holding back the spread of communism

Question 3

Truman Doctrine

Answer 3

pledged that the US would fight the spread of communism world-wide

Question 4

Berlin Airlift

Answer 4

carried supplies from W Germany to W Berlin. Supplied W Berlin for over a year.

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization- US, Canada, and Western European countries formed together for this defensive and economic alliance

Question 6

Warsaw pact

Answer 6

military alliance of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe communist countries - Eastern Bloc

Question 7

berlin Wall

Answer 7

E Germany builds wall to keep E Berlin separated from W Berlin

Question 8

Parestroika

Answer 8

rebuilding. policy to open some free enterprise

Question 9

glasnost

Answer 9

openness. policy to allow more freedom, such as speech.

Question 10

solidarity

Answer 10

workers union/party that called for changes

Question 11

Fidel Castro

Answer 11

led communist revolution in Cuba during missile crisis in 1959

Question 12

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 12

Soviet piemier in 1985

Question 13

Boris Yeltsin

Answer 13

1st Russian president

Question 14

iron curtain

Answer 14

Soviet control of Eastern Europe

Question 15

1st man made satellite into space was from what country?

Answer 15

USSR

Question 16

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 16

Cuba put missiles in Cuba and threatened to bomb us

Question 17

WHy are there 2 Chinas?

Answer 17

1. Communists and nationalists fight
2. They joined together to defeat Japan
3. After the war with Japan, they were soon fighting
4. In the war with Japan, the communists did not send as many men to fight, so they still had some to fight against the nationalists
5. In result of this, Communists win and push nationalists into Taiwan

Question 18

Great Leap Forward

Answer 18

1. Mao’s attempt to modernize China

, govt collectivized farms and took over industry. Famine killed 15 million people.

Question 19

Korean War

Answer 19

Northern Korea tried to take over S Korea. US comes to help and territory is sent.

Question 20

Japan’s post ww2 recovery

Answer 20

US helps them write democratic constitution

2. US creates economic boom
3. By the 70s, Japan has a huge part in the car industry

Question 21

Countries that resisted Soviet control in the 1950s and 60s

Answer 21

Hungary and Czehoslovakia

Question 22

Nixon and People’s Republic of China

Answer 22

NIxon ended 25 years of separation with the US by visiting mainland China in 1972. He establishes diplomatic relations and opens trade with China. US still friends with Taiwan and will still defend them if China does bad stuff to them

Question 23

Reagan’s pressure on Soviets

Answer 23

Reagan told Gorbachev to “Tear Down This Wall” regarding the Berlin Wall

Question 24

Velvet Revolution

Answer 24

Czechslovakia decided to split bc there are 2 groups into Czech Rep and Slovakia. There was no bloodshed so it was the “Velvet” Revolution

Question 25

Pope John Paul II influence on collapse of communism

Answer 25

1. Between ww1 - ww2 he grew up as a priest and he dealt with communist govts
2. He encouraged peaceful resistance
3. Solidarity party ended communism with little violence

Question 26

Josip Broz Tito

Answer 26

dictator of Yugoslavia who encouraged unities with ethnicities.

2. People moved but were not unified
3. Were not aligned with USSR
4. Tito dies in 1980 and the future is in question

Question 27

cultural revolution in china

Answer 27

1966-76-  a 10 year period ofr destruction of non-communist beliefs and influences.
People critical of Mao's punishment
Chinese and non-Chinese books destroyed
Western made books/Items under attack
1976 Mao dies

Question 28

Tiananmen Square

Answer 28

Spring 1989 students protest for Democracy and Dengs troops slaughter them and hundreds were killed.