World History: Cold War Review

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What did Josef Stalin - Russia - agree to at the Yalta conference?

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Fair and Free elections for Europe

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What system did the U.S. want to promote throughout the world?

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Capitalism

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What term symbolized the ideological barrier between the East and West during the cold war?

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The Iron Curtain

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Who was the main country behind the Warsaw Pact?

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Russia

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What were NATO and the Warsaw Pact?

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opposing military alliances during the Cold War

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Which military alliance was the US part of during the Cold War?

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NATO

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What was the military agreement for joining NATO or Warsaw Pact?

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if one country was attacked, they all went to war

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What are Soviet Satellite states?

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small, communist countries around Russia

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Why did the Soviet Union want to create a "buffer zone" around their border of communist countries?

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Their country has a long history of being invaded

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Why did the US adopt a "containment" policy towards Russia?

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They wanted to stop the spread of communism