What was the purpose of the Soviet blockade of Berlin (1948-1949)?
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“Now I come to the second of the two marauders, to the second danger which threatens the cottage home and ordinary people—namely tyranny. We cannot be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the United States and throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are very powerful.”
Based on the quotation above which of the following is the best statement of Churchill’s main point?
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How did the domino theory influence the United States’ role in the Vietnam War?
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Question 4
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Which statement regarding the Bay of Pigs is true?
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Question 5
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What brought the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 to an end?
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Question 6
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Which of the following was not a component of the Marshall Plan?
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Question 7
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Which of the following was a result of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954?
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Question 8
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What are all the issues in the diagram below describing?
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Question 9
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When Winston Chruchill said, “an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” of Europe in 1946, what did he mean?
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Question 10
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When George Kennan first introduced the idea of containment as a major feature of the United States foreign policy, he meant which of the following?
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Question 11
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How did World War II lead to the Cold War?
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Question 12
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During the Vietnam War, what did the Tet Offensive of 1968 make people realize?
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Question 13
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The United Nations would be least likely involved in which of the following situations?
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Question 14
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Which of these statements is true about Nikita Khrushchev’s domestic policies?
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Question 15
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“Unsustainable military spending has been cited as a cause for the breakup of the Soviet Union. Supporters of this viewpoint to the cost of building and maintaining its nuclear arsenal as one factor.”
Which statement is the most logical, based on the data on the graph above?
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Question 16
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Which of the following best describes the role of Boris Yeltsin in the breakup of the Soviet Union?
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Question 17
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In the spring of 1989, thousands of protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. They rallied around a plaster statue that resembled the Statue of Liberty which they called “the Goddess of Democracy.”
These protestors were seeking which of the following?
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Question 18
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One of the reasons the US became involved in the Korean and Vietnam Wars can be described as the domino theory.
What did the domino theory state?
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Question 19
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What two policies supported the concept of containment?
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Question 20
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How did the "Bay of Pigs" failure lead to the Cuban missile crisis?
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Question 21
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Select the tactics used by the superpowers during the Cold War to influence Third World nations?
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Question 22
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An alliance between the United States, Canada and Western European nations.
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Post-WWII organization that replaced the League of nations with goal to maintain world peace.
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Alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its satlellite states.