WW 2 Part B

Question 1

Containment

Answer 1

the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.

Question 2

Cold-War

Answer 2

a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.

Question 3

Truman Doctrine

Answer 3

the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.

Question 4

Marshall Plan

Answer 4

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World …

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.

Question 6

Warsaw Pact

Answer 6

The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite

Question 7

Cuneiform

Answer 7

Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian city of Uruk which advanced the writing of cuneiform c. 3200 BCE.

Question 8

Berlin Wall

Answer 8

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

Question 9

Khrushchev

Answer 9

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.

Question 10

Mau Zedong

Answer 10

Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist …

Question 11

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 11

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American …

Question 12

Arms Race

Answer 12

a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Question 13

Satellite States

Answer 13

A Satellite State is a political term that refers to a country or nation that was formally independent, but is now politically and economically influenced by another country. The term is often used to reference the Soviet Empire, Soviet Satellite States, or Eastern Bloc.

Question 14

Domino Theory

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the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.

Question 15

East Germany

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East Germany, formally the German Democratic Republic, was an Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War period.

Question 16

West Germany

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West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.

Question 17

The people’s Republic of China

Answer 17

The history of the People’s Republic of China details the history of mainland China since October 1, 1949, when, after a near complete victory by the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War

Question 18

The Great Leap Forward

Answer 18

The Great Leap Forward of the People’s Republic of China was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962.

Question 19

The Cultural Revolution

Answer 19

The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1976.

Question 20

The Gang of Four

Answer 20

The Gang of Four was a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution and were later charged with a series of treasonous crimes.

Question 21

The Reed Guards

Answer 21

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Question 22

Bay of Pigs

Answer 22

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.

Question 23

Space Race

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The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability.

Question 24

The Iron Curtain

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the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

Question 25

Sputnik

Answer 25

each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

Question 26

PRI Party

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The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party founded in 1929, that held power uninterruptedly in the country for 71 years from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary

Question 27

Samosa

Answer 27

a triangular savory pastry fried in ghee or oil, containing spiced vegetables or meat.

Question 28

Fidel Castro

Answer 28

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.

Question 29

Batista

Answer 29

David Michael “Dave” Bautista Jr. is an American actor, semi-retired professional wrestler, former mixed martial artist, and bodybuilder.

Question 30

Juan Peron

Answer 30

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine lieutenant general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President, he was thrice elected President

Question 31

Eva Peron

Answer 31

María Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.

Question 32

Organization of American States

Answer 32

Organization of American States (OAS), organization formed to promote economic, military, and cultural cooperation among its members, which include almost all of the independent states of the Western Hemisphere.Mar 29, 2011.

Question 33

Doomsday Clock

Answer 33

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a human-caused global catastrophe. … It has been set backward and forward 22 times since then, the smallest ever number of minutes to midnight being two (in 1953) and the largest seventeen (in 1991).

Question 34

Sphere of Influence

Answer 34

a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.

Question 35

Cooperatives

Answer 35

a farm, business, or other organization that is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits.

Question 36

Henry Kissinger

Answer 36

Henry Alfred Kissinger is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Question 37

Prague Spring

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The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II.

Question 38

Duvalier

Answer 38

François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. He was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform and successfully thwarted a coup d’état in 1958.

Question 39

Salvador Allende

Answer 39

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.

Question 40

Detente

Answer 40

the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

Question 41

Dissidence

Answer 41

protest against official policy; dissent.

Question 42

Helsinki Accords

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The Helsinki Final Act was an agreement signed by 35 nations that concluded the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Helsinki, Finland. The multifaceted Act addressed a range of prominent global issues and in so doing had a far-reaching effect on the Cold War and U.S.-Soviet relations.

Question 43

Richard Nixon

Answer 43

Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office.

Question 44

Pinochet

Answer 44

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean general, politician and the military ruler of Chile between 1973 and 1990; he remained the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 1998.

Question 45

Guerila

Answer 45

a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.