Cold War Common Formative Assessment

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the military alliance that developed between the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist countries

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Warsaw Pact

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the military alliance to which the U.S. and most western European nations belong

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NATO

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policy in which the U.S. would stop the spread of Communism

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Containment

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policy which stated that if one Asian nation fell to Communism, then all other nations would also fall

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Domino Theory

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The metaphorical line dividing Soviet Union and Western powers

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Iron Curtain

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The American capitalist economic system encourages free enterprise and private ownership

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true

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Communism as an ideology and economic system emphasizes

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equal distribution of resources

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Which of the following was a cause of the Cold War: U.S. delay in opening a second front in World War II, U.S. development of the atomic bomb, Disputes over plans for postwar Germany?

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all of the above

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Why did the war stay "cold" between the Soviet Union and the United States?

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nuclear technology and MAD - mutually assured destruction

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Which of the following is an example of a proxy war? World War I, World War II, Korean War, Spanish-American War

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Korean War