Review Questions
1
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What did the Truman Doctrine promise the United States would do?
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assist countries whose governments were in danger of being overthrown by communist forces
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work to eliminate the stockpiling of nuclear weapons
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contribute funds to help Europe rebuild following World War II
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destroy the Soviet Union
2
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What best describes the primary goal of U.S. foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War?
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maintain an isolationist position and ignore what was happening in the rest of the world
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continue to work with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to maintain world peace
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prevent the Soviet Union from spreading communism outside Eastern Europe
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assist European colonies in Asia and Africa to gain their independence
3
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Where did the United States first find itself in conflict with the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
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China
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Berlin
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North Korea
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Cuba
4
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Why was NATO created?
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to protect the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe from Western aggression
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to rebuild Japan after World War II
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to limit the testing of nuclear weapons
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to protect Western countries from Soviet aggression
5
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When the Nationalists were defeated in the Chinese civil war, where did they go?
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Taiwan
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Japan
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Korea
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Vietnam
6
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How did the Korean War begin?
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South Korea invaded North Korea.
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North Korea invaded South Korea.
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China invaded South Korea.
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The United States bombed China.
7
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What caused the First Indochina War?
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South Vietnam invaded North Vietnam.
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France tried to reclaim Vietnam as a colony.
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China encouraged North Vietnam to attack South Vietnam.
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The Soviet Union placed a communist government in power in North Vietnam.
8
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All the following were causes of famine during China’s Great Leap Forward except
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the use of farm labor to produce steel and work on construction projects
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the requisitioning of grain to feed industrial workers and city dwellers
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the destruction of crops during war
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natural disasters like floods
9
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On whom did Mao Zedong rely to destroy “bourgeois” elements of Chinese society in the Cultural Revolution?
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trusted members of the Chinese Communist Party
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teachers
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the Chinese Secret Police
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students
10
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All of the following are reasons Yugoslavia did not become part of the Eastern Bloc except
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Tito believed the Soviet Union should treat Yugoslavia as an equal.
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Tito supported the civil war in Greece, which Stalin did not.
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Tito did not want Yugoslavia to be a communist country.
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Tito wanted to incorporate other countries into Yugoslavia, which Stalin opposed.
11
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Which of the following best describes the goal of members of the Non-Aligned Movement?
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to become the industrial equals of the United States and the Soviet Union
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to avoid becoming satellites of either the Western or the Eastern Bloc
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to avoid becoming communist nations
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to establish Western-style forms of democratic government
12
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Why did France, Israel, and the United Kingdom attack Egypt in 1956?
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Egypt launched an air attack on Israel.
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Egypt defaulted on loans it owed to France and the United Kingdom.
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Egypt was undergoing a communist revolution.
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Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and closed it to Israel.
13
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In which European satellite country did the Soviet Union stage an armed intervention in the 1950s?
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Hungary
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Romania
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Bulgaria
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East Germany
14
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What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
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to prevent a communist revolution in Cuba
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to remove nuclear missiles from Turkey
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to kill Gamal Abdel Nasser
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to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro
15
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Why did President Kennedy begin a naval blockade of Cuba in 1962?
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to force Fidel Castro from power
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to prevent the Soviet Union from installing missiles aimed at the United States
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to provide assistance to the government of Fulgencio Batista
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to prevent Cuba from using its submarines to mine U.S. harbors
16
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Which country did the Mau Mau try to liberate?
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Ethiopia
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Ghana
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Kenya
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Angola
17
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The expense of fighting a war in Afghanistan contributed to
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Ronald Reagan’s loss of the 1984 presidential election
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the overthrow of the Shah of Iran
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successful revolts in the central Asian Soviet republics
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the collapse of the Soviet Union
18
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Which Serbian leader led an ethnic cleansing campaign against Albanians in Kosovo?
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Josip Broz Tito
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Slobodan Milošević
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Boris Yeltsin
19
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Who was responsible for transforming China’s economy by introducing elements of capitalism in the late 1970s?
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Deng Xiaoping
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Liu Shaoqi
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Mao Zedong
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Jiang Qing