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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?
A
Nuclear War
B
Cold War
C
Hostile War
D
Propaganda War
2) Which term refers to the area of eastern Germany held by the Soviet Union at the end of the war?
A
containment zone
B
occupation zone
C
Soviet Eastern Germany
D
USSR
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?
A
Policy of Containment
B
Truman Policy
C
Policy of Anti-Communism
D
Policy of Economic Assistance
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?
A
Policy of Stability
B
Truman Plan
C
Policy of Containment
D
Truman Doctrine
5) Which plan provided the countries in Western Europe with 12.5 billion dollars in reconstruction funds from Congress?
A
Roosevelt Corollary
B
Monroe Doctrine
C
Truman Doctrine
D
Marshall Plan
6) Which term refers to a troubled area like the capital city of Germany?
A
hot spot
B
demilitarized zone
C
Maginot Line
D
Alsace Lorraine
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?
A
Allied Airlift
B
Western Airlift
C
Berlin Airlift
D
Three Airlift
8) Which term refers to the military alliance formed by the United States, Canada, and ten western European nations in 1949?
A
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
B
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
C
Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC)
D
European Union (EU)
9) Which term refers to the military alliance formed by the Soviet Union with Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania?
A
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
B
Warsaw Pact
C
Perestroika
D
European Union
10) Which term refers to countries clustered around the Soviet Union whose political and economic policies orbited within Soviet influence and control?
A
USSR cluster
B
satellite nations
C
Soviet orbit
D
Communist nations
11) Which term refers to the the idea that if one nation fell to communism, then others around the country would also become communist?
A
domino theory
B
occupation
C
democratization
D
defection
12) Which term refers to where the Korean peninsula was divided into two parts after the Japanese were driven out after WWII?
A
Japanese-Korean Parallel
B
38th Parallel
C
Korean Division
D
WWII Korean Separation
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?
A
Warsaw Pact
B
Cuban Missile Crisis
C
Perestroika
D
Cuban-Soviet Aggression
14) Which term refers to total destruction of the earth due to nuclear weapons?
A
nuclear annihilation
B
shock therapy
C
holocaust
D
glasnost
15) Which term refers to the area of Europe under communist control?
A
communist zone
B
iron curtain
C
glasnost
D
occupation
16) Which term refers to the desertion of one's country or cause?
A
defection
B
Perestroika
C
occupation
D
democratization
17) Which term refers to the economic restructuring, which was encouraged by Gorbachev?
A
economic sanctions
B
soviet transition
C
glasnost
D
perestroika
18) Which term refers to Gorbachev's policy of openness?
A
glasnost
B
Gorbachev Doctrine
C
Warsaw Pact
D
perestroika
19) Which term refers to the process of creating a government elected by the people?
A
Marshall Plan
B
occupation
C
democratization
D
ethnic cleansing
20) Which term refers to Russian President Yeltsin's plan to abruptly and immediately shift to free market (capitalist) economics?
A
Yeltsin Plan
B
Soviet Capitalism
C
shock therapy
D
Russian Free Market Shift
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