Unit 8 - III

Question 1

Communist bloc

Answer 1

group of Western European countries
All has installed communist governments
Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, East Germany

Question 2

NATO

Answer 2

1949
north atlantic treaty organization
Made to go against communism
If one member was attacked, all members were attacked

Question 3

Warsaw Pact

Answer 3

1955
Response to NATO
If one member was attacked, all members were attacked

Question 4

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 4

1962
Khrushchev shipped nuclear missiles to Cuba
Cuba was led by Fidel Castro
U.S. had already put missiles in Turkey

Question 5

Nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Answer 5

1968
Prevent non-nuclear countries from creating such powerful weapons

Question 6

Suez canal crisis

Answer 6

UK/France/Israel invaded Egypt
Eisenhower pressured them to withdraw b/c of USSR bomb threat
Gamal Adbel Nassar overthrew British and gained independence
Nationalize the Suez Canal (only Egypt owned it)

Question 7

Vietnam

Answer 7

Gained independence from Japan and France
Communist north vs anti-communist south
Communist north started land redistribution

Question 8

Cuba

Answer 8

Fidel Castro established communist state
Wanted to not rely on the US
launched land redistribution with help from USSR
nationalized much land owned by the US

Question 9

Salt I

Answer 9

strategic arms limitation treaty
Nixon and Brezhnev
Agreed to prohibit manufacturer further nuclear weapon development

Question 10

Contextualization

Answer 10

rapid industrialization + urbanization
Growing economic inequality and harsh working conditions
New political ideologies: socialism, communism
Russian revolution

Question 11

Russian revolution

Answer 11

overthrow of the Tsar
Rise of Lenin and Bolsheviks
Establishment of the first communist state