Exam 5: The Origins and End of the Cold War

The Potsdam Conference of July 1945 resulted in the successful implementation of a reparation plan that unified Germany.

In exchange for the removal of Soviet nuclear-capable missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy agreed to which of the following?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following events contributed to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962?

In October 1944, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin proposed a relative breakdown of how much influence the Soviet Union and the western Allies would have in post-World War II Europe. This is an example of ______.

The Long Telegram outlines the policy of ______.

What is the difference between the American policies of containment and rollback?

Which of the following differences between U.S. presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman would be highlighted by the liberal perspective?

The United States employed a strategy of maximum deterrence during the Cold War to defend the territories of its allies in Europe.

According to the identity perspective, how did ideas change so that the Cold War could come to an end?

What did the policy of rollback entail?

The ______ was a proxy war, begun in 1950, that globalized the Cold War alliances.

In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded ______.

Arguing that the Truman Doctrine demonstrated the United States' commitment to spreading and defending democratic values is an example of an argument from the ______ perspective.

The identity perspective stresses three main origins of the Cold War: ______ in the Soviet Union, American democracy, and how the United States and Soviet Union came to see each other as enemies.

In 1949, what major event occurred, leading to the escalation of the Cold War?

______ refers to Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas of domestic reform known as glasnost and perestroika.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. In 1949, what two major events occurred, leading to the escalation of the Cold War?

Which alliance system was led by the Soviet Union and opposed NATO?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The identity perspective highlights which of the following as reasons for the end of the Cold War?

The liberal perspective argues that Soviet behavior was determined by strategic and geopolitical factors.