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President Bush justified the American invasion to Iraq in 2003. What was his justification?

All the answers are correct

Limiting the spread of WMDs

Iraqi president dismissed the UN inspectors

Saddam used WMD during previous conflicts

Differentiate between the reaction of Turkey, Iran and Iraq toward the Kurdish nationalism.

Open-book group research, presenter chosen.

The rivalry in science and education; known as the "Space Race" led to ____

The launching of Sputnik I

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

The construction of the Berlin Wall

Determine which nonaligned countries lay between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Austria & Yugoslavia

France and Italy

Sweden & Ireland

Spain & Switzerland

The _________ provided Eastern and Western boundaries after World War II.

meeting at Potsdam

USSR Blockade of Berlin

US Policy of Brinkmanship

building of the Berlin Wall

This names the first satellite to be launched into space by any country.

Sputnik I

USSR Enterprise Line

Apollo

Highligner

Point out the dispute between the Soviet Union and the United States that resulted from the shooting down of a spy plane.

U-2 Incident

Launching Sputnik I

Brinkmanship

Marshall Plan

Verify the policy of demonstrating a willingness to engage in a war to protect national interests.

Brinkmanship

Blitzkrieg

Truman Doctrine

Warsaw Pact

T/F: After WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union started to have the same goals.

False; they had conflicting goals and that was one of the main reasons behind the beginning of the Cold War, which lasted for almost 50 years.

----------------- is a struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war.

Cold War

Brinkmanship

Marshall Plan

Iron Curtain

Specify the person who stated that the United States would “retaliate instantly, by means and at places of our own choosing.”

John Foster Dulles

Harry Truman

George Marshall

Roosevelt

Evaluate the effectiveness of the steps taken by different nations to control the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Were those steps sufficient? Explain your answer.

Open-Book / Research Question. Group work. Speaker chosen by the group.

Specify the response of the Soviet Union when France, Britain, and the United States decided to withdraw their forces from Germany and allow their occupation zones to form one nation in 1948.

Holding West Berlin hostage

Bombing Germany with missiles

Building the Berlin Wall

Declaring war on Germany

Infer why Great Britain and France received so much aid.

Two of the answers are correct

USA wanted to compensate them for their losses during WWII

They were the principal US allies during WWII

None of the answers is correct

Point out which term came to represent Europe’s division into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.

The Iron Curtain

Brinkmanship

Federal German Republic

Marshall Plan

The Truman Doctrine promised economic aid to any country under the threat of communism. It also intensified ----------------- between America and USSR.

diplomatic hostilities

economic competition

military competition

diplomatic cooperation

Verify the policy that aimed to prevent the spread of communism by blocking Soviet influence.

Containment

Marshall Plan

Democratization

Truman Show

Clarify what increased the tension between USSR and Western Europe.

The Berlin Blockade

The Iron Curtain

The Marshall Plan

The formation of the UN

In August 1957, the Soviets announced the development of a rocket that could travel great distance. It was referred to as ______________

An Intercontinental Balistic Missile (ICBM)

Biological Weapon

Sputnik

Apollo I

Analyze the reasons for why many nations started to band in military alliances after WWII. Mention some examples of those alliances.

Open-Book Question. Group Research. Group chooses a representative to answer on their behalf.