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World History-Boomer Final
World History Final Exam
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10th Grade
05/29/2013

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Cold War
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A war of ideas and words rather than guns
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North Vietnam
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Communist part of Vietnam
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South Vietnam
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Democratic part of Vietnam
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Oswald
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Assassinated Kennedy in 1963
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Brezhnev
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The new Soviet leader in the 1970s
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Communists in the government
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The House UnAmerican Activities Committee was a Congressional panel that hunted down
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De-Stalinization
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When Kruschev took power, he began reversing Stalin's policies in a program called-
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Hussein
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The leader of Irag in the 1990s
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Ho Chi Minh
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Led North Vietnam
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Detente
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Brezhnev and Nixon began a period of peace in the 1970s called ______________- or "cooling"
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Iron Curtain
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Winston Churchill gave the __________ speech in which he said that East and West are forever divided
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Kuwait
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In 1990, Iraq invaded the small, oil rich country of __________
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McCarthy
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Senator ________ began the Red Scare by working to expose Communists in government, Hollywood, and the Army
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1964
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The year the Vietnam War began
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KGB
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Soviet Leaders used the _________, or Committee for State Security to spy on the Soviet people
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Afghanistan
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Relaxed relations in the 1970s ended in 1979 when the USSR invaded _____________
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Johnson
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When Kennedy was assassinated ____________ became president
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Command
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The USSR had a _________ economy, where the government controls all parts, including production and wages
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September 11, 2001
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The largest terrorist attack in American history occurred on this date.
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Guerilla
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The type of war fought in Vietnam was called a __________ war
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Reagan
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The American president in the 1980s
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Marshall Plan
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Truman's Secretary of State issued the _______ which would give money to European nations to rebuild after WWII and prevent the spread of communism
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Collective
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Soviet government owned and controlled farms were called ________ farms
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Eisenhower
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The American President in the 1950s was a WWII General named -
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Gorbachev
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The leader of the USSR in the 1980s was -
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about 3,000
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_________ Americans died on Sept. 11
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Hippies
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Protesters against the Vietnam were called filthy, dirty, stinking, unwashed, immature, drug-addled __________
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38th parallel
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After WWII, Korea was divided at the -
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Truman Doctrine
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This US foreign policy said that the US would oppose the spread of Communism anywhere in the world.
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1989
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The Berlin wall fell in ____
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Nixon
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________ was elected to the Presidency because he promised to get out of Vietnam.
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North Korea
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was communist during the Korean war
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South Korea
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Was democratic during the Korean war
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Bin Laden
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The Sept. 11 attacks were organized by __________
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Brinkmanship
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles created a new foreign policy called _________. It involved pushing the USSR to the edge of war.
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Yelstin
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The last leader of the USSR
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1950
Definition
The Korean War began in
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NATO
Definition
___________ was organized as an alliance between the US, the UK and their allies to oppose the USSR.
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Vietnamization
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The US began turning the war over to the Vietnamese in a policy called ____________
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Krushchev
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The new Premier in the USSR in the 1950s
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1991
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The USSR collapsed in _
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1953
Definition
The Korean War ended with a truce in -
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Arms Race
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During the Cold War, both sides built up their militaries in what is called the _________
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Berlin Wall
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In 1962, the __________ was built to prevent East Germans from escaping to the West and freedom.
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1973
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The Vietnam war ended in _____.
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France
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Before and during WWII, Vietnam was a colony of-
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Airlift
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When Stalin blockaded West Berlin, the US brought in supplies using the Berlin
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Castro
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In 1959, ______ took over Cuba and allied with the USSR.
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Warsaw Pact
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The __________- was created as an alliance between the USSR and her allies to oppose the West.
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13 days
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The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted ______ and occurred because the USSR moved nukes into Cuba.
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DMZ
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Vietnam was divided at the _________-
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