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| it was not a "hot war"; postwar state of hostility and competition between Soviet Union and USA. |
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| List the three major motivations for Soviet expansion after World War II |
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| fear of the West, zeal for their ideology, and desire for power |
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| What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine? |
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| American aide (economic and military) was promised go countries resisting communist aggression. |
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| What city was the focus of a blockade and airlift? |
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| What is the name of the major Western regional military alliance organized in 1949? What was the name of its Soviet counterpart? |
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| NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organizaion), Warsaw Pact |
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| To where did the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek flee at the end of the Chinese civil war? |
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| What country provided a large number of troops to aid the North Koreans during the Korean War? |
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| What is the name of the theory that maintains that if one country is allowed to fall to communism, then soon others near it will also topple? |
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| What resolution authorized the American president to take whatever steps necessary to stop further acts of aggression by the Viet Cong? |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| What Latin American country allied itself to the Soviet Union in the 1950s and stirred up revolutionary activity throughout the region? |
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| What did Khrushchev mean by "peaceful coexistence"? |
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| the main thing is to keep to the positions of ideological struggle without resorting to arms (agree to disagree without resorting to arms to prove that one is right) |
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| The invasion of what country by the Soviet Union in 1979 potentially threatened the world's oil supplies in the Persian Gulf region? |
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| What crisis over missiles being deployed close to the U.S. border almost led to war between the United States and the Soviet Union? |
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| Define perestroika and glasnost |
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| restructuring of Soviet government & economy, openness of the government toward the people |
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| Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union? |
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| Which of the former Soviet republics became the most important in world politics? Who became its first president? |
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| After the collapse of Soviet communism in Eastern Europe, what former Communist nation broke into several smaller republics and engaged in ethinic civil war? |
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| Who was the major leader of Communist China? With what program did he attempt to improve Chinese agriculture and industry in the 1950s? |
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| Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward |
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| What location in the city of Beijing was the site of a student rally for reform? How did the Chinese Communist rulers respond? |
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| Tiananmen Square, Squarshed them-killed them |
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