Semester Exam Part Two

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When did World War II end?

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September 1945

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What began to happen between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II ended?

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Growing fractures in their mutual support

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What is the role of a single authoritarian party in communism?

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Controls the state-owned means of production

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Who owned all land, buildings, machines, and infrastructure in the USSR?

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The Communist Party

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What does the image caption describe?

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A classroom of students in the USSR in the late 1960s

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How did Stalin help spread communism?

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By supporting communist governments in other nations

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What two types of races did the U.S. and Soviet Union engage in during the Cold War?

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Space race and arms race

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Why did neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union formally declare war during the Cold War?

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They wanted to avoid direct military conflict

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What was the Cold War?

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A period of political tension and division between Eastern and Western Europe

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What is the Iron Curtain?

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A symbolic division between communist and democratic countries