AMSCO Chapters 27-29 Quiz Review

A program of loans that was designed to aid Western European nations rebuild from WWII's devastation was the

• The MacArthur Plan
• The Marshall Plan
• The Churchill Plan
• The Dreyfus Affair

Which of the following was the most important factor in bringing about the end of the Cold War?

• The breakdown of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and China
• The end of civil conflicts in Southeast Asian nations such as Cambodia, the Koreas and Vietnam
• The spread to other nations of nuclear technology and the ability to create weapons of mass destruction
• The economic costs to both the united States and the Soviet Union required to sustain the conflict

In which of these nations was the Truman Doctrine first put to use?

• Greece and Turkey
• Poland and West Germany
• Turkey and Czechoslovakia
• Poland and Greece

In order to avoid a two-front war, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with this country in 1939

• Austria
• Poland
• the Soviet Union
• Spain

(1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

• Mao Zedong
• Chiang Kai Shek
• Xi
• Zeng He

Built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.

• Berlin wall
• Brandenburg Gate
• Autobahn
• Auschwitz

Cuban revolutionary; overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1958; initiated series of reforms to establish Socialist reforms; came to depend almost exclusively on USSR

• Fidel Castro
• Raul Castro
• Che Guevara
• Lee Harvey Oswald

The group of nation-states that possesses mature industrialized economies based on capitalistic production

• First World
• Third World
• Modern World
• Western World

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Containment
• Imperialism
• Democratization
• Appeasement

Turkish nationalist leader who became the first president of modern Turkey in the 1920's and set about to modernize and Westernize Turkey, including making it more secular

• Ataturk, Kemal Mustafa
• Adolf Hitler
• Muhammed Ali Abbwa
• Saddam Husein