Cold War Review

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Cold War?

• Protective alliance systems

• Advancing technologies

• Differing Ideologies

• International Cooperation

What was a key feature of NATO and Warsaw Pact?

• Human Rights

• Collective Security

• Economic Aid

• Peacekeeping

What is the policy of containment?

• Providing financial aid to secure communist governments in the world

• Conversations between US and Soviet union on consensus building

• Treaties and agreements to stop capitalism from spreading

• Attempt to stop the spread of communism through aid to nations in danger

What is a key difference between communism and capitalism?

• Voting rights and property rights given to minority groups

• Amount of economic control by the government

• Amount of laws in their constitutions

• Amount of legislative power for elected officials

What was the outcome of the Korean Conflict?

What is détente?

• Stockpile of nuclear arms for battle

• Lowering Cold War tensions due to more flexible policies

• Lowering Cold War hostility after Soviet Union defeated

• Increase in tensions during Cuban Missile Crisis

What was the domino theory?

• Communism was inferior so Vietnam would not become communist

• U.S. citizen support to invade Vietnam

• If one nation fell in East Asia to communism, others would as well

• Capitalism was a threat and nations should be protected through force

Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis important?

• It was the closest the world came to actual nuclear war

• It gave Cuba the weapons to fight against the United States

• The Soviet Union didn't back down to U.S. demands

• Relations between China and the Soviet Union grew

What did the policy of glasnost result in the Soviet Union?

One result of economic change in the Soviet union was...

• More control was given to the government

• Build up of weapons and space program

• Increase in military spending by the Soviets

• Some control of production was given to citizens