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MR. MOUNCE
WORLD HISTORY
UNIT V EXAM STUDY GUIDE
THE COLD WAR
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THE BODY WITHIN THE UNITED NATIONS THAT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO SEND TROOPS TO HALT
AGGRESSION IS THE?
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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE WAS PROPOSED AS A RESPONSE TO?
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THE PROGRAM INTENDED TO HELP EUROPEAN NATIONS REBUILD THEIR ECONOMIES WAS KNOWN AS?
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THE BERLIN WALL WAS LOCATED IN?
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THE UNITED STATES BEGAN ITS SPACE PROGRAM AS A RESULT OF?
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THE SOVIET LEADER NIKITA KRUSHCHEV BELIEVED WHAT ABOUT SOVIET/US. RELATIONS
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WHEN THE SOVIET UNION SHIPPED MISSILES TO CUBA, THE UNITED STATES RESPONDED BY?
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THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN THAT STALIN LAUNCHED AFTER WORLD WAR II WAS INTENDED TO SHOW THE WEST
WHAT?
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THE 1970’S POLICY OF RELAXING OF TENSIONS BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS WAS KNOWN AS?
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THE BREZHNEV DOCTRINE
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HOW WOULD HAVE SATTELITE COUNTRIES REACTED WITHOUT THE POLICY OF DE-STALINIZATION IN THE
SOVIET UNION?
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AFTER WORLD WAR II, THE SOVIET UNION EXTENDED ITS CONTROL OVER EASTERN EUROPE FOR WHAT
REASON?
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NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV’S 1956 SPEECH TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS CONDEMNING STALIN WAS
SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT SAID WHAT ABOUT THE CHANGING SOVIET SOCIETY?
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MIKAIL GORBACHEV CAME TO POWER IN THE SOVIET UNION IN WHAT YEAR?
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WHICH WAS NOT A PROBLEM FACED BY MIKAIL GORBACHEV WHEN HE BECAME SOVIET LEADER?
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PERESTOIKA WAS GORBACHEV’S REFORM PROGRAM AIMED AT?
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GORBACHEV’S WILLINGNESS TO CRITICIZE STALIN’S RULE, TO ADMIT FORMERLY BANNED BOOKS INTO
THE SOVIET UNION, AND TO ALLOW GREATER FREEDOM OF RELIGION ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF HIS POLICY
CALLED?
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WHAT WAS PROBABLY THE MAIN REASON WHY GORBACHEV DID NOT SEND TROOPS TO BACK UP THE
COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS THAT FACED REVOLUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE IN 1989?
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WHAT BEST DESCRIBES THE LIKELY EFFECTS OF THE SHIFT TOWARD MARKET ECONOMIES IN EASTERN
EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION?
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AFTER WORLD WAR II, WHAT HAPPENED TO GERMANY?
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POSTWAR SOVIET POLICY TOWARD GERMANY WAS BASED ON?
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THE COLD WAR INVOLVED TENSION BETWEEN WHO?
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IN 1947, THE UNITED STATES RESPONDED IN UNREST IN GREECE BY DOING WHAT?
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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE STATED THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD?
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV CAME TO POWER IN THE SOVIET UNION?
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IN 1956, TO SHOW THAT IT WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY THREAT TO ITS CONTROL OF EASTERN EUROPE,
THE SOVIET UNION PUT DOWN AN UPRISING IN WHAT COUNTRY?
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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF?
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IN THE 1940S AND 1950S., WHAT DID THE REGION DESCRIBED AS BEING “BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN”
INCLUDE?
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WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE?
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WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE ALLIANCE ESTABLISHED BE EUROPEAN COMMUNIST NATIONS IN
RESPONSE TO NATO?
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WHICH TWO GROUPS FOUGHT A CIVIL WAR IN CHINA BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER WORLD WAR 11?
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DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, WHO WERE THE “NEW HEROES” OF CHINA?
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WHAT IDEA WAS THE MAJOR JUSTIFICATION FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE COLD WAR ERA?
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WHICH EXILED LEADER LED THE RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION TO WESTERN INFLUENCES?
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WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRIES COULD RECEIVE AID THROUGH THE MARSHALL PLAN?
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WHAT LED SOVIETS TO BLOCKADE WEST BERLIN?
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WHAT EVENT INCREASED U.S. SPENDING ON TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION?
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WHICH LEADER WON CHINA’S CIVIL WAS, AND WHAT NAME DID HE GIVE TO THE COUNTRY?
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WHAT ECONOMIC SYSTEM WAS USED TO RESHAPE CHINA’S ECONOMY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR?
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WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WORKED TOGETHER TO PRODUCE SIMILAR GOALS?
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WHAT WERE THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION?
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HOW DID THE “BAY OF PIGS” FAILURE LEAD TO THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS?
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WHAT WAS THE PRIMARY GOAL FOR THE SOVIET UNION’S INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN?
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HOW DID BREZHNEV’S LEADERSHIP OF THE SOVIET UNION DIFFER FROM THAT OF KHRUSHCHEV?
TERMS/CONCEPTS
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SUPERPOWER
COLD WAR
SATTALITE
IRON CURTAIN
CONTAINMENT
IDEOLGY
BLOC
PEASEFUL COEXISTANCE
ICBM
DISSADENT
DETENTE