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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. China became communist.






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






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






4. 1941. By Churchill and Roosevelt.






5. Wanted capitalism in Russia.






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






7. 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)






8. Replaced the soviet union






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






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






11. 1944. This agreement made the American dollar the reserve currency of the world.






12. 1962. The soviet union was told to stop 'building missiles on Cuba'. rea p. 124. Khrushchev agreed and a possible nuclear war was prevented.






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






14. America landed on the moon.






15. 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.






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






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






18. Racial segregation in South Africa.






19. Helped rebuild Europe by providing them with money.






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






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






22. The first satellite by the soviets into space.






23. U.S. left Vietnam.






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






25. 1988. Gorbachev.

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






27. Founder of Solidarity. elected in 1989.






28. 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.






29. 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.