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CLEP Western Civilization: The Cold War

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 29 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Founder of Solidarity. elected in 1989.






2. 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)






3. People in Czechoslovakia did not want anymore repression in their politics. Alexander Dubeck






4. Wrote: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. He was a well known American critic of the Soviets.






5. 1962. The soviet union was told to stop 'building missiles on Cuba'. rea p. 124. Khrushchev agreed and a possible nuclear war was prevented.






6. U.S. left Vietnam.






7. The countries controlled by the soviet union in Europe.






8. People could leave the iron curtain. Berlin wall was torn down. Vaclav Havel became the president of Czechoslovakia.






9. Ended how it started with the 38th parallel between north and south.






10. Built in 1961 to keep people from traveling to free countries. A well known gate in Checkpoint Charlie.






11. The first satellite by the soviets into space.






12. 1944. This agreement made the American dollar the reserve currency of the world.






13. Soviet-Afghan War. The U.S. and China helped Afghanistan.






14. Wanted to have less restrictions on the Catholic Church in Poland. Wanted to be independent of the Soviet Union.






15. Helped rebuild Europe by providing them with money.






16. Racial segregation in South Africa.






17. The Soviets said they had the right to interfer in Communist nations.






18. 1941. By Churchill and Roosevelt.






19. Still believed in communism but thought it had been corrupted and gave much more freedom.






20. America landed on the moon.






21. China became communist.






22. Wanted capitalism in Russia.






23. 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.






24. Flew tons of goods to Western Berlin for a year.






25. 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.






26. This organization which was designed to prevent war was replaced by the League of Nations.






27. 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.






28. Replaced the soviet union






29. 1988. Gorbachev.