Unit 9 Vocab Review Question Preview (ID: 46559)


Review Of 24 Vocabulary Words From The Cold War. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Which term refers to the desertion of one's country or cause?
a) defection
b) occupation
c) democratization
d) Perestroika

Which term refers to the economic restructuring, which was encouraged by Gorbachev?
a) perestroika
b) glasnost
c) economic sanctions
d) soviet transition

Which term refers to where the Korean peninsula was divided into two parts after the Japanese were driven out after WWII?
a) 38th Parallel
b) Korean Division
c) Japanese-Korean Parallel
d) WWII Korean Separation

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) Cuban Missile Crisis
b) Warsaw Pact
c) Cuban-Soviet Aggression
d) Perestroika

Which term refers to total destruction of the earth due to nuclear weapons?
a) nuclear annihilation
b) holocaust
c) glasnost
d) shock therapy

Which term refers to the area of Europe under communist control?
a) iron curtain
b) communist zone
c) glasnost
d) occupation

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) defection
c) occupation
d) democratization

Which term refers to countries clustered around the Soviet Union whose political and economic policies orbited within Soviet influence and control?
a) satellite nations
b) USSR cluster
c) Soviet orbit
d) Communist nations

Which term refers to the military alliance formed by the United States, Canada, and ten western European nations in 1949?
a) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
b) European Union (EU)
c) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
d) Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC)

Which term refers to the military alliance formed by the Soviet Union with Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania?
a) Warsaw Pact
b) European Union
c) Perestroika
d) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Which term refers to a troubled area like the capital city of Germany?
a) hot spot
b) demilitarized zone
c) Alsace Lorraine
d) Maginot Line

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) Berlin Airlift
b) Western Airlift
c) Allied Airlift
d) Three Airlift

Which plan provided the countries in Western Europe with 12.5 billion dollars in reconstruction funds from Congress?
a) Marshall Plan
b) Monroe Doctrine
c) Roosevelt Corollary
d) Truman Doctrine

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) Truman Doctrine
b) Policy of Containment
c) Truman Plan
d) Policy of Stability

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) Policy of Anti-Communism
c) Policy of Economic Assistance
d) Truman Policy

Which term refers to the area of eastern Germany held by the Soviet Union at the end of the war?
a) occupation zone
b) containment zone
c) Soviet Eastern Germany
d) USSR

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) Cold War
b) Propaganda War
c) Nuclear War
d) Hostile War

Which term refers to Gorbachev's policy of openness?
a) glasnost
b) perestroika
c) Gorbachev Doctrine
d) Warsaw Pact

Which term refers to the process of creating a government elected by the people?
a) democratization
b) occupation
c) ethnic cleansing
d) Marshall Plan

Which term refers to Russian President Yeltsin's plan to abruptly and immediately shift to free market (capitalist) economics?
a) shock therapy
b) Yeltsin Plan
c) Soviet Capitalism
d) Russian Free Market Shift

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