Unit 9 Vocab Review

Test Description: Review of 24 vocabulary words from the Cold War

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Which term refers to a state of political hostility between countries that is characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures just short of open warfare?

2) Which term refers to the area of eastern Germany held by the Soviet Union at the end of the war?

3) Which term refers to President Truman's plan to stop the spread of communism by giving economic assistance to countries so they would not become communist?

4) Which term refers to the strategy that was first utilized to return economic stability and success to the region, thus preventing communist supporters from offering communism as a viable economic alternative?

5) Which plan provided the countries in Western Europe with 12.5 billion dollars in reconstruction funds from Congress?

6) Which term refers to a troubled area like the capital city of Germany?

7) Which term refers to the time when the three Western Allies delivered supplies and food to the people of West Berlin for almost eleven months?

8) Which term refers to the military alliance formed by the United States, Canada, and ten western European nations in 1949?

9) Which term refers to the military alliance formed by the Soviet Union with Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania?

10) Which term refers to countries clustered around the Soviet Union whose political and economic policies orbited within Soviet influence and control?

11) Which term refers to the the idea that if one nation fell to communism, then others around the country would also become communist?

12) Which term refers to where the Korean peninsula was divided into two parts after the Japanese were driven out after WWII?

13) Which event during the Cold War involved Soviet missiles being assembled on the island of Cuba and US President John F. Kennedy feared the Soviets would use them to attack the US?

14) Which term refers to total destruction of the earth due to nuclear weapons?

15) Which term refers to the area of Europe under communist control?

16) Which term refers to the desertion of one's country or cause?

17) Which term refers to the economic restructuring, which was encouraged by Gorbachev?

18) Which term refers to Gorbachev's policy of openness?

19) Which term refers to the process of creating a government elected by the people?

20) Which term refers to Russian President Yeltsin's plan to abruptly and immediately shift to free market (capitalist) economics?


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