World History Modern Unit 8

The Cold War was an indirect conflict between

• US & England

• US & USSR

• USSR & Germany

One reason the US created NATO was to...

• contain democracy

• contain capitalism

• contain communism

In response to the creation of NATO

• Berlin was divided into 4 zones

• the USSR created the Warsaw Pact

• Cuba became communism

Nations that didn't want to join NATO or the Warsaw Pact and remain neutral supported

• SEATO

• Axis

• Non Aligned Movement

Which event brought the US and the USSR the cloest to nuclear war?

• Berlin airlift

• Cuban Missle Crisis

• glasnost

Following Mao's success in the Chinese Civil War he implemented

•  collectivization and then redistribution of land to peasants, which failed

• the New Economic Plan

• the invasion of South Vietnam

Following the crisis of the Cuban Missle Crisis, the US and USSR

• entered into a period of detente

• formed competiting alliances

• fought in the Korean War

Mao Zedong attempted to control China by reforming China’s culture and “re-educating” children of the elite with...

• The Five Year Plan

• The Cultural Revolution

• The Four Modernizations

In response to the creation of the People’s Republic of China, the US feared a domino theory and applied containment to other parts of via all of the following EXCEPT

• Korea

• India

• Afghanistan

Multiple conflicts between Israel and surrounding Arab nations are often over

• disputed land in the Middle East

• access to warm water ports

• the spread of communism