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CLEP Western Civilization: The Cold War
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Answer 29 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This organization which was designed to prevent war was replaced by the League of Nations.
Congress of People's Deputies
Boris Yeltsin
United Nations
Brezhnev Doctrine
2. Flew tons of goods to Western Berlin for a year.
Hungary
Dienbienphu
Berlin Airlift
Congress of People's Deputies
3. 1962. The soviet union was told to stop 'building missiles on Cuba'. rea p. 124. Khrushchev agreed and a possible nuclear war was prevented.
Congress of People's Deputies
1973
1989
Cuban Missile Crisis
4. Racial segregation in South Africa.
Sputnik
apartheid
Atlantic Charter
Boris Yeltsin
5. 1988. Gorbachev.
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6. 1944. This agreement made the American dollar the reserve currency of the world.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bretton Woods Agreement
Brezhnev Doctrine
7. People in Czechoslovakia did not want anymore repression in their politics. Alexander Dubeck
Prague Spring
Berlin Airlift
Lech Walesa
Brezhnev Doctrine
8. America landed on the moon.
Dienbienphu
1969
Mikhail Gorbachev
1989
9. Helped rebuild Europe by providing them with money.
Berlin Wall
Boris Yeltsin
European Recovery Program
Truman Doctrine
10. Wanted capitalism in Russia.
Atlantic Charter
Berlin Airlift
Truman Doctrine
Boris Yeltsin
11. China became communist.
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Cold War
United Nations
1949
12. The countries controlled by the soviet union in Europe.
Warsaw Pact
Prague Spring
European Recovery Program
Atlantic Charter
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.
Dienbienphu
Congress of People's Deputies
Truman Doctrine
Sputnik
14. Replaced the soviet union
Hungary
European Recovery Program
Atlantic Charter
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
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.
Berlin Airlift
1969
Cold War
Korean War
16. 1941. By Churchill and Roosevelt.
Sputnik
Atlantic Charter
Truman Doctrine
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
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.
apartheid
Hungary
United Nations
Korean War
18. Built in 1961 to keep people from traveling to free countries. A well known gate in Checkpoint Charlie.
Korean War
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
United Nations
Berlin Wall
19. The Soviets said they had the right to interfer in Communist nations.
Congress of People's Deputies
United Nations
Cold War
Brezhnev Doctrine
20. Ended how it started with the 38th parallel between north and south.
Truman Doctrine
Commonwealath of Independent Sates
Korean War
Berlin Wall
21. U.S. left Vietnam.
apartheid
European Recovery Program
Wladyslaw Gomulka
1973
22. People could leave the iron curtain. Berlin wall was torn down. Vaclav Havel became the president of Czechoslovakia.
Cold War
1989
Lech Walesa
Berlin Wall
23. Founder of Solidarity. elected in 1989.
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Lech Walesa
Brezhnev Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
24. Soviet-Afghan War. The U.S. and China helped Afghanistan.
Wladyslaw Gomulka
1969
Cold War
1979
25. Wrote: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. He was a well known American critic of the Soviets.
1949
apartheid
1973
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
26. Wanted to have less restrictions on the Catholic Church in Poland. Wanted to be independent of the Soviet Union.
1973
Berlin Wall
1969
Wladyslaw Gomulka
27. Still believed in communism but thought it had been corrupted and gave much more freedom.
Truman Doctrine
Mikhail Gorbachev
apartheid
Lech Walesa
28. The first satellite by the soviets into space.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Sputnik
1989
Cuban Missile Crisis
29. 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)
Cold War
Berlin Airlift
1949
Dienbienphu