APWH Unit 8 Review

What year did the Cold War begin?

• 1941
• 1945
• 1950
• 1963

States that refused to participate in Cold War tensions and alliances were part of what organization?

• Non-Aligned Movement
• Warsaw Pact
• United Nations
• Freedom Alliance

The boundary between Soviet occupied communist Europe and Liberal capitalist Western Europe was called

• iron curtain
• Warsaw Pact
• NATO
• Red Boundary

Which new military alliance included the Soviet Union and its allies?

• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Comintern

In the Nicaraguan Proxy War, which side did the US back?

• Nicaraguans
• Sandinistas
• FNLA
• Contras

The proxy war in Vietnam resulted in what outcome?

• Victory for the USA
• Victory for Warsaw Pact
• Victory Ho Chi Mihn N. Vietnam
• Victory for South Vietnam

Angola's proxy war occurred after it gained freedom from _____.

• Portugal
• Great Britain
• France
• Soviet Union

The USA supported which group in Afghanistan?

• Al-Qaeda

• Mujahideen

• Contras

• Iranians

In the Afghanistan conflict, which side directly prevailed?

• USSR
• Afghani Mujihadeen
• USA
• Vietcong

Nicaragua and Angola both had what similar outcome of their proxy wars?

• they both fell back into colonial control
• they both transitioned to democratic / capitalist governments
• In both, the leftist/ Marxist groups gained control through elections, but the country is not stable politically
• In both, the leftist/ Marxist groups gained control through warfare and established stable communist states