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CLEP Western Civilization: The Cold War
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Answer 29 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Said that the U.S. would assist anyone being attacked by outsiders and/or the Soviets. So the U.S. helped with the Greek Civil War.
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Wall
Congress of People's Deputies
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
2. Replaced the soviet union
apartheid
Lech Walesa
Bretton Woods Agreement
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
3. 1944. This agreement made the American dollar the reserve currency of the world.
Cold War
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Bretton Woods Agreement
Warsaw Pact
4. China became communist.
1979
Lech Walesa
Korean War
1949
5. America landed on the moon.
1969
Bretton Woods Agreement
Prague Spring
Sputnik
6. 1988. Gorbachev.
7. Wrote: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. He was a well known American critic of the Soviets.
Berlin Wall
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
apartheid
Bretton Woods Agreement
8. Over democracy and communism. Between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Those that did not side with either were called third world. The U.S. wanted Germany to become a democracy.
1949
Cold War
1969
Boris Yeltsin
9. The first satellite by the soviets into space.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
Sputnik
1949
10. Ended how it started with the 38th parallel between north and south.
European Recovery Program
Bretton Woods Agreement
Korean War
Berlin Wall
11. Built in 1961 to keep people from traveling to free countries. A well known gate in Checkpoint Charlie.
Atlantic Charter
Berlin Wall
Boris Yeltsin
1989
12. The countries controlled by the soviet union in Europe.
Warsaw Pact
apartheid
1969
Truman Doctrine
13. Helped rebuild Europe by providing them with money.
1949
European Recovery Program
Congress of People's Deputies
Wladyslaw Gomulka
14. Soviet-Afghan War. The U.S. and China helped Afghanistan.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hungary
1979
1969
15. 1962. The soviet union was told to stop 'building missiles on Cuba'. rea p. 124. Khrushchev agreed and a possible nuclear war was prevented.
Prague Spring
Boris Yeltsin
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bretton Woods Agreement
16. People could leave the iron curtain. Berlin wall was torn down. Vaclav Havel became the president of Czechoslovakia.
1989
apartheid
Bretton Woods Agreement
United Nations
17. People in Czechoslovakia did not want anymore repression in their politics. Alexander Dubeck
Bretton Woods Agreement
Prague Spring
apartheid
Hungary
18. 1941. By Churchill and Roosevelt.
Atlantic Charter
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
Berlin Wall
Congress of People's Deputies
19. Still believed in communism but thought it had been corrupted and gave much more freedom.
1949
Mikhail Gorbachev
Berlin Airlift
Congress of People's Deputies
20. Founder of Solidarity. elected in 1989.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lech Walesa
Berlin Airlift
Sputnik
21. Where Vietnam defeated the French. They were tired of having other soldiers in their country. The U.S. got involved because they did not want a bunch of nations to become communist. (domino theory)
1979
1989
Berlin Airlift
Dienbienphu
22. Wanted to have less restrictions on the Catholic Church in Poland. Wanted to be independent of the Soviet Union.
Cold War
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Lech Walesa
Truman Doctrine
23. Imre Nagy was from this country and he wanted the Soviet soldiers to leave - and wanted this country to no longer be a part of the Warsaw Act.
Hungary
Sputnik
Dienbienphu
1979
24. The Soviets said they had the right to interfer in Communist nations.
1969
Dienbienphu
Brezhnev Doctrine
Atlantic Charter
25. Racial segregation in South Africa.
Bretton Woods Agreement
Berlin Airlift
apartheid
1949
26. U.S. left Vietnam.
Sputnik
Atlantic Charter
European Recovery Program
1973
27. Wanted capitalism in Russia.
Boris Yeltsin
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
Congress of People's Deputies
Berlin Wall
28. This organization which was designed to prevent war was replaced by the League of Nations.
Cold War
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
1979
United Nations
29. Flew tons of goods to Western Berlin for a year.
Berlin Airlift
Lech Walesa
Dienbienphu
Sputnik