Cold War

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• Cold War

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1. How did Stalin and the capitalist west regard
each other after WWII

• They were fearful of each other

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2. What did the U.S. and Great Britain believe
should happen with the liberated nations of
Eastern Europe

• They believed they should freely determine their
  own governments

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3. After freeing Eastern Europe from the Nazis,
what course of action did the Soviet army follow?

• The Soviet army stayed in the conquered areas

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4. What was the Truman Doctrine

• The United States would provide money to
  countries threatened by Communist expansion

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5. Describe the program known as the Marshall Plan

• A program designed to rebuild the prosperity and
  stability of war-torn Europe

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6. What two events in 1949 caused great fear in
the United States

• Chinese communists took control of China
• The soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb

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7. What did the member nations of NATO agree to
do?

• To provide mutual help if any of them was attacked

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8. How did the Korean War begin in 1950?

• The communist government of North Korea attempted
  to take over South Korea

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9. What organization was formed to stem Soviet
aggresion in the East?

• SEATO- The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

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10. How did Nikita Khrushchev seek to stop the
flow of refugees out of East Germany to West
Berlin?

• The East German government built the Berlin Wall

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11. Name the event in 1962 that brought the world
close to nuclear war.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

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12. What was the domino theory?

• If communists succeeded in South Vietnam, other
  countries in Asia would fall