World History Ch. 27 Review – Flashcards
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A civil war in ___ in 1946 contributed to tensions between the Soviet Union and Great Britain.
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Greece
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The Marshall Plan was designed to?
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Restore economic stability in Europe after WWII
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US fears about the spread of communism were increased when ___ became a communist nation in 1949.
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China
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Original members of NATO?
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Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway
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Members of the Warsaw Pact?
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Albania, Bulgaria, Czech, E Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania
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What did Americans fear when the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957?
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That the Soviets had a big lead in building missiles
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The "Bay of Pigs" refers to?
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the US attempt to overthrow the Cuban government
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Communist leader ___ initiated the "Prague Spring" with a series of reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Alexander Duboek
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The US senator responcible for the anti-communist movement known as the "Red Scare" was?
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Joseph McCarthy
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In 1970, four students at ___ were killed by the Ohio National Guard during an antiwar demonstration.
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Kent State University
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The Truman Doctrine stated that the US would provide ___ to nations threatened by communist expansion.
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Money
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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, founded in 1949, was?
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The Soviet Union's response to the Marshall Plan
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Which nations joined NATO several years after it was founded?
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West Germany, Turkey, Greece and Spain
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The Warsaw Pact sought to?
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Create military alliance between Eastern European nations
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The Berlin Wall was built in order to?
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Divide E and W Germany, prevent E Germany Defeat
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Which Communist nations remained independent of Soviet control?
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Yugoslavia and Albania
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Which nation experienced an "economic miracle" after World War II?
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West Germany
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French president Charles de Gaulle attempted to return France to the status of a world power by?
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Investing heavily in nuclear weapons
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Which nation declined economically after World War II?
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Great Britain
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Which US president signed into law the Civil Rights Act?
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Johnson
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What happened to the city of Berlin after WWII?
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Divided into 4 zones and then rebuilt
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What policy did the US adopt toward the Soviet Union to stop the spread of communism?
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Containment
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Why did the Soviet Union's council for Mutual Economic Assistance fail?
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Soviets had no money
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The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should?
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Have free elections to determine the future
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The Truman Doctrine was formulated, initially, as a response to the 1946 withdrawal of?
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British financial decrees
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Even after Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union made it clear that it would NOT?
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Allow Eastern European nations to become independent
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In response to Nagy's declaration of Hungarian independence, Khrushchev reacted by?
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Attacking Budapest
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Who crushed the protest campaign led by writers in Czechoslovakia in 1967?
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Soviets
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The "Prague Spring" of Alexander Dubcek was forestalled by whom?
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Soviet army invaded Czech
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Dubcek said that he wanted to create?
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Socialism with a human face
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Much of Canada's postwar growth, financed by US investment, led to Canadian fears of what?
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American economic domination
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In the late 1960s, the writings of reformers like de Beauvoir created renewed interest in?
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Feminism
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What were student protests of the late 1960s a reaction against?
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University policies and administration
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Postwar birthrates rose in the late 1940s and 1950s, creating a?
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Baby boom
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Increases in workers' wages, increased credit, and build-up demand for postwar goods led to the creation of what some people have called the?
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Consumer society
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Joseph McCarthy
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Created Red Scare, senator
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Fidel Castro
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Communist Leader of Cuba
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Russian author who wrote A Day in the Life of War
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John F. Kennedy
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President during Cuban Missile Crisis
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Joseph Stalin
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Soviet leader who believed in heavy industry
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Konrad Adenauer
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W German leader responsible for economic something
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Lyndon Johnson
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Signed Civil Rights Act, increased troops in Vietnam
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Built the "Berlin Wall"
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Charles de Gaulle
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President of France's 5th republic
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Richard Nixon
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President that resumed relations with China
