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What international organization was formed after WWII to try & solve problems
that might lead to WWIII? Identify three main
components of this org..United Nations; Security
Council, General Assembly, International
Court, Economic and Social Council
What economic plan was supposed to keep Western European Nations free from Comm. after WWII? What
country sponsored it?
Marshall Plan, the United States
Which side did the U.S. (and the U.N.) support in the
Korean War? Who supported the other side?
the South, the USSR
What was the end result of the Korean War?
N. Korea stays Comm., S. Korea free, DMZ in middle
(along the 38th parallel)
What were the two main treaty organizations of the
Cold War?
NATO (U.S. led) & Warsaw Pact (USSR led)
What U.S. doctrine vowed to support all resistors of
communism wherever they may be?
Truman Doctrine
How did the U.S. respond to the Soviets cutting off
access to West Berlin in 1948?
Berlin Airlift (carrying in supplies to West )
What officially started the arms race in 1949?
The soviets tested an atomic bomb
What made it possible for the U.S. to avoid a major
post-war economic slump?
Marshall Plan and people spent what they had saved during the war
Who finally comes to power in China in 1949? What
type of government did he set up?
Mao Zedong, Communist Dictatorship
Where did Mao’s opponents, the nationalist Koumintang, flee? Are they still in power
there?
Taiwan, Yes
Name two things Khrushchev did to lessen Stalin’s influence.
some freedoms, agricultural reform, more consumer goods, Secret Speech
How did some of the satellite states respond to Khrushchev’s reforms? How did the soviets
respond to this?
Tried to break away from the Soviet Union, sent in the
military to squash the uprisings
What did the U.S. response to the European crises of
1956 demonstrate?
We were unwilling to intervene behind the Iron
Curtain
What communist dictator rose to power in Cuba in the
late 1950’s? What did he do that angered Americans?
Fidel Castro, seized American properties and
favored the Soviets
What is the name for the doctrine that says your
enemy won’t attack you if he knows you can retaliate?
Mutually Assured Destruction
At the peak of the arms race, how many times over could the U.S. & the USSR have blown up the world?
10
What 1963 movie made a farce of everyone’s deep seeded fear of Nuclear
Holocaust?
Dr. Strangelove (…or how I learned to stop worrying
and love the bomb)
What was the U-2 incident? How did it affect relations
between the superpowers?
The Soviets shot down and American spy plane and
captured the pilot, relations took a turn for
the worse
What step did the U.S. take to try and remove Castro
from power in 1961?
the invasion at the Bay of Pigs
Why did the Soviets put up the Berlin Wall in 1961?
Embarrassed by the flow of immigrants fleeing East
Germany
Where did the Soviets attempt to set up missiles in October of 1962? How did
the U.S. respond?
Cuba, naval blockade (this is the Cuban Missile
Crisis)
What was the outcome of this crisis?
U.S. promises not to invade Cuba again, USSR takes
back its missiles
How did the Soviets respond to the 1968 uprising in
Czechoslovakia?
sent in troops
Who led Vietnamese resistance to French control?
Ho Chi Minh
What Soviet leader helped hasten their collapse by
pushing for an arms buildup in the late 70s & early 80s?
Leonid Brezhnev
What was Détente? What did it allow to happen?
A lessening of tension between the
superpowers, new treaties (on arms buildup,
etc.)
What important commodity did the U.S. start selling to
the Soviets during Détente?
Grain
Who’s set of major reforms brought an end to the USSR?
Gorbachev
What were the two parts of Gorbachev’s reforms?
perestroika and glasnost
How did the satellite states respond to the weakness of
the USSR in 1989?
“revolted” for independence
Identify four areas that “revolted” in 1989.
Poland, E Ger., Czech., Romania, Hungary,
What movement led to independence for Poland in
1989?
solidarity
How did the U.S. respond to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980?
By boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics and putting an embargo on
grain
Who was the unlikely ally in the Vatican for the
Solidarity movement?
Pope John Paul II
How did Czechs respond when the gov’t tried to crack down on the first
wave of demonstrations in 1989?
Even larger demonstrations
Who became the first president in Czechoslovakia
after the Revolution of 1989? What was he before
he was president?
Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright
What was the major issue in Czech after 1989? How was
it resolved?
Ethnic tension between Czechs & Slovaks, split
nation into Czech Republic and Slovakia
What incident sparked revolution in Romania? What happened to their
repressive leader?
The murder of thousands of demonstrators by the
Secret Police, he was captured and executed
What contributed to the collapse of the communist
dictatorship in East Germany?
economic slump and repressive government
What symbol of the Cold War was torn down by
demonstrators when the German border was
opened?
the Berlin Wall
What is the basic nature of the problem in the former
Yugoslavia?
many different ethnic/religious groups, discrimination outside
common areas