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






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






3. America landed on the moon.






4. The first satellite by the soviets into space.






5. 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.






6. 1962. The soviet union was told to stop 'building missiles on Cuba'. rea p. 124. Khrushchev agreed and a possible nuclear war was prevented.






7. 1941. By Churchill and Roosevelt.






8. 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)






9. 1944. This agreement made the American dollar the reserve currency of the world.






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






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






12. Founder of Solidarity. elected in 1989.






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






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






17. Wanted capitalism in Russia.






18. 1988. Gorbachev.


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






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. China became communist.






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






24. Helped rebuild Europe by providing them with money.






25. U.S. left Vietnam.






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






27. Racial segregation in South Africa.






28. Replaced the soviet union






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