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100 points

Soviet goals after WWII include allOf the following EXCEPTRebuilding the USSR

SecurityAllying with Japan

Weakening Germany

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The Eastern Bloc can best be described as...

Soviet satellite nations in Eastern Europe

A selection of Slaviac statesA U.S. Plan to contain communismBoth the first and second answers

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During the Cold War, Eastern Europewas seen as a(n)

Area of Soviet DominanceSecurity Zone for the Soviet UnionA focus of US Containment policyBoth the first and second answers

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An overarching message from theLong Telegram was...

The Soviet Union wouldn't bother othercountries if they felt safe

The Soviet Union was aggressive andwanted to expand Communism

Stalin was a crazy man, mismanaging thecountry

The US needed to maintain its monopolyon nuclear weapons

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150 points

American policies designed to contain

communism include the...Truman Doctrine

Marshall PlanChinese Gambit

Both the first and second answers

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The aim of Truman's speech to congress

In 1947 gets funds to supportBritain and FranceTurkey and Italy

Greece and TurkeyTurkey and Romania

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150 points“Soviet power, unlike that of Hitlerite Germany, is neither schematic nor

adventuristic. It does not work by fixed plans. It does not take unnecessary risks.

Impervious to logic of reason, and it is highly sensitive to logic of force. For this reason it can

easily withdraw - and usually does - when strong resistance is encountered at any

point.”

This excerpt from the Long Telegram is saying that the US...

Won't listen to force aloneMust apply force to stop Soviet expansion

Should not take unnecessary risksNeeds to be aware of the Domino Theory

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“Much depends on health and vigor of our own society. World communism

is like a malignant parasite which feeds only on diseased tissue.”This excerpt from the Long Telegram is saying...

Communism will spread in countries with a strong society

Communism will spread to countries that are weakened

Communism will spread to countries that are weakened

Communism is a diseased and flawed ideology

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200 points

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to give money

to European countries to prevent them from becoming communist. This is an example of...

Mutual assured destructionContainment

The Truman DoctrineDestalinization

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200 pointsThe Berlin Airlift...

Was a response to the building of the

Berlin WallMade Stalin look powerful

Was a response to the Berlin Blockade

Supplied East Berliners with needed

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200 pointsNATO can best be described as...

A military alliance of Non-communistcountries

A military alliance of Communist countries

An economic alliance of North Americancountries

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NATO was formed in response to...Concern over the weakness of US

nuclear arsenalFear over the weakness of Soviet

naval powerThe death of Stalin

Western Europe's growing fear of Sovietpower

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250 pointsThe Warsaw Pact can best be described

as...An economic alliance of European

countriesA military alliance of Slavic nationsA military alliance between Eastern

Blocand the USSR

An alliance of the Eastern Bloc against the

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During the Korean War, North Koreawas supported by...

NATO forcesThe United Nation

Vietnamese CommunistsThe USSR and China

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In 1956 Khrushchev gave a speechdenouncing the policies of...

V.I. LeninDwight Eisenhower

Harry TrumanJoseph Stalin

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In his speech, Khrushchev expressedthe idea that the US and USSR

could...Be friends

Co-exist peacefullyHave different paths to happinessWork together to forge socialism

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300 pointsThe opening of the space race

betweenthe US and USSR was...

The successful test of an H-BombThe successful orbit and return of

YuriGagarin

The launching of SputnikMAD

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300 points“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we

shall Pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,

support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

The excerpt above, from President Kennedy's Inagural Address of January 20th, 1961, best

reflects...Nuclear Aspirations

Mutually Assured DestructionCounterforceContainment

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300 points

MAD...Is a form of deterrence

Means mutual assured destructionRequires few nuclear weaponsBoth the 1st and 2nd answers

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300 pointsIn the Cold War context, Detente is

best described as...A period of high tension between the

US and USSRThe normalization of relations between

US and JapanA period of relaxed tensions between

USand the USSR

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