Imperialism and Cold War Review

The Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, & Nuclear Arms Race were all events in what era?

• Cold War
• Enlightenment
• Age of Imperialism
• Scientific Revolution

During the 1960s & 1970s, primary reason for United States involvement in Southeast Asia was to

• Look for new colonies
• gain new markets for exports
• stop the spread of communism
• search for new sources of oil

United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II because

• United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states
• Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons
• Communists and Western capitalists distrusted each other
• the Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe

The United States sent troops to Vietnam to

• gain the support of the American public
• stop North Vietnam from controlling (invading) the south.
• drive the French out of Vietnam
• stop South Vietnam from controlling (invading) the north.

United States considered Cuba a threat because

• the Cuban government had been overthrown and was unstable
• Cuba, which was 90 miles away, had ties with the Soviets
• Castro and Kennedy did not trust each other
• Cuban exiles informed US government about missiles in Cuba

US government believed that if they lost South Vietnam to communism,

• US citizens would turn against war
• other Asian countries would come to the aid of South Vietnam
• other Asian countries would also fall to communism
• North Vietnam would become communist too

Many African nations today have divergent ethnic, linguistic, & territorial groups because

• leaders want to keep their nations ethnically diverse
• Communist reformers engineered vast resettlement programs
• most African cultures traditionally embrace multiculturalism
• most national boundaries were drawn by colonial powers

Plan to keep communism within its existing boundaries

• Containment
• Domino Theory
• Deterence
• Arms Race

Country that is economically & politically dependent on another country

• Satellite States
• Proxy Wars
• Containment
• Domino Theory

What is domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

• Imperialism

• Industrialization