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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. Wanted capitalism in Russia.






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






3. 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)






4. 1962. The soviet union was told to stop 'building missiles on Cuba'. rea p. 124. Khrushchev agreed and a possible nuclear war was prevented.






5. Founder of Solidarity. elected in 1989.






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. China became communist.






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






13. 1988. Gorbachev.


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






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






16. U.S. left Vietnam.






17. 1941. By Churchill and Roosevelt.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. Helped rebuild Europe by providing them with money.






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






25. 1944. This agreement made the American dollar the reserve currency of the world.






26. Replaced the soviet union






27. America landed on the moon.






28. Racial segregation in South Africa.






29. The first satellite by the soviets into space.