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