5/8 History Quiz

during the cold war, the boundary separating the communist nations of western Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Cold War

• Brinkmanship

• Commune

foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances.

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Cold War

• Brinkmanship

• Commune

The state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II.

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Cold War

• Brinkmanship

• Commune

a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Cold War

• Brinkmanship

• Commune

in Communist China, a collective form on which a great number of people work and live together

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Cold War

• Brinkmanship

• Commune

the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby Nations will also fall under Communist control

• Domino Theory

• Nonaligned Nations

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union

• Domino Theory

• Nonaligned Nations

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US during the presidency of Richard Nixon

• Domino Theory

• Nonaligned Nations

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

a Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information, introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev

• Domino Theory

• Nonaligned Nations

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

a restructuring of the Soviet economy to permit more local decision making begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1925

• Domino Theory

• Nonaligned Nations

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika