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






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. Founder of Solidarity. elected in 1989.






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






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






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






10. Wanted capitalism in Russia.






11. China became communist.






12. Racial segregation in South Africa.






13. U.S. left Vietnam.






14. 1944. This agreement made the American dollar the reserve currency of the world.






15. 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.






16. 1962. The soviet union was told to stop 'building missiles on Cuba'. rea p. 124. Khrushchev agreed and a possible nuclear war was prevented.






17. 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.






18. The first satellite by the soviets into space.






19. 1941. By Churchill and Roosevelt.






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






21. America landed on the moon.






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






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






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






25. Replaced the soviet union






26. 1988. Gorbachev.


27. 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)






28. Helped rebuild Europe by providing them with money.






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