What three leaders met at the Yalta Conference in 1945 and what was discussed at this meeting?
FDR, Churchill, and Stalin; Post-war Europe
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What two policies do we associate with Mikhail Gorbachev, what does each mean, and what did they help to occur?
Glasnost- "Openness" in government actions
Perestroika- "Restructuring" of Russia's economy
Helped to bring an end to the old Soviet Union (Cold War)
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What was the name for nations that were under Soviet control in eastern Europe?
Satellite states
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What key event in Germany do we associate with Ronald Reagan?
Tearing down of the Berlin Wall
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When the Soviet Union was dissolved, how many countries came from it and which was the biggest?
15 total, with Russia being biggest
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What two political alliances formed during the Cold War and what nation led each?
NATO- USA Warsaw Pact- USSR
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What war is known as the "Forgotten War" and what was the ultimate result of this conflict?
Korean War; division of Korea into communist North Korea and democratic South Korea
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What did M.A.D. stand for and explain it.
Mutually Assured Destruction and it was the idea that if any side launched nukes, both sides would perish as a result (deterrence)
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Who was the leader of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War and what unique tactic was attributed to him?
Ho Chi Minh and the Ho Chi Minh Trail where the Vietcong and North Vietnamese army would enter neighboring nations to then re-enter Vietnam at will
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Which performs better, a capitalist economy or a communist economy?
Capitalist
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Who put forth the idea of containment, what was containment, and in what did he issue his idea?
President Truman, to stop the spread of communism, and in the Truman Doctrine
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Which side of the Chinese Civil War did Jiang Jieshi lead, what about Mao Zedong, which side did we support, and what was the ultimate result of the civil war?
Jiang Jieshi= nationalist (democratic) Mao Zedong= communist
We supported the nationalists
China= communist, Taiwan= democratic
