Question 1

Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included

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A)  middle class indifference toward his regime because of its refusal to provide them with lucrative government jobs. 
B)  peasant enthusiasm to communist promises to give land to the peasants. 
C)  the refusal of the United States to give even limited military support to the Nationalist armies. 
D)  the fact that 85,000 former Japanese occupation troops were fighting in his army and elite Japanese units formed his bodyguard. 
E)  Chiang's alliance with Japan during World War II.

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
Berlin Wall

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Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
Truman Doctrine

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Question 4

Before mid-1948, the United States had

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A)  broken with its foreign policy traditions by pledging large amounts of economic aid to assist nations threatened by Fascism. 
B)  sent over 200,000 soldiers to Vietnam and Malaya to back French and British troops against Communist movements. 
C)  sent General George C. Marshall to China to negotiate a coalition government and thwart communism there. 
D)  withdrawn completely from any involvement in Europe's affairs. 
E)  announced that it had destroyed all of its nuclear weapons.

Question 5

Why did the Grand Alliance, and the Yalta System it spawned, come apart so quickly after the Japanese surrender? Could it have succeeded, or at least lasted longer, if Roosevelt had lived? Why or why not?

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Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
"equivalence"

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Question 7

What were the factors which led to the success of the Marshall Plan? Could such massive economic aid work equally well in other places and at other times? Why or why not?

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Question 8

In assessing the end of the Cold War, who contributed the most to the fall of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan or Mikhail Gorbachev, and how?

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Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
Chiang Kai-shek

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Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
Nonaligned Movement

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Question 11

The civil war in Poland between communists and democrats led to the Truman Doctrine in 1947.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

How significant were the Polish and Hungarian independence movements during the course of the Cold War? What does the Russian response to these movements tell us about the limits of Russian power during this period?

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Question 13

Reforms implemented by Alexander Dubocek in ____ led to a period of great happiness known as ____.

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A)  Hungary; Hungarian Revolution 
B)  East Germany; Nonalignment Movement 
C)  Poland; Warsaw Elation 
D)  Czechoslovakia; Prague Spring 
E)  Austria; Nationalist Summer

Question 14

What was the status of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China in the 1950s and 1960s?

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A)  It remained unchanged. 
B)  It was altered by the Soviet Union's increased interest in increasing world tensions, especially with the militarily dangerous United Nations. 
C)  It was weakened by Mao Zedong's belief that, after Stalin's death, Mao's status as the most experienced Marxist ruler should make him the leading socialist. 
D)  It was destroyed by Mao's threat to occupy southeastern Siberia if the Soviet government continued to make, test, and store nuclear weapons there. 
E)  It improved because of a joint fear of the United States' ambitions in South Asia.

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
containment

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Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
Republic of Vietnam and Democratic Republic of Vietnam

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Question 17

What was true of Tibet?

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A)  It had been controlled by Russia from the mid-1800s until 1953, when it was given its independence. 
B)  It was "invaded," or "reoccupied" by China in 1950. 
C)  It was feared by Britain because of its militantly aggressive actions in Kashmir and the Punjab in the 1940s. 
D)  It was the only Sunni Muslim society in the region. 
E)  It staged an unsuccessful, Comintern-inspired revolution in 1953.

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
ICBMs

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Question 19

Was the Cold War inevitable? Why and or why not?

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Question 20

Did the fear of nuclear annihilation and the incredible cost of the United States' military buildup of the 1980s help to make the Cold War too ghastly to contemplate and, simultaneously, too expensive for either side to continue? Give evidence in support of your answer.

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Exam 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Berlin Wall

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Truman Doctrine

Before mid-1948, the United States had

Why did the Grand Alliance, and the Yalta System it spawned, come apart so quickly after the Japanese surrender? Could it have succeeded, or at least lasted longer, if Roosevelt had lived? Why or why not?

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "equivalence"

What were the factors which led to the success of the Marshall Plan? Could such massive economic aid work equally well in other places and at other times? Why or why not?

In assessing the end of the Cold War, who contributed the most to the fall of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan or Mikhail Gorbachev, and how?

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Chiang Kai-shek

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Nonaligned Movement

The civil war in Poland between communists and democrats led to the Truman Doctrine in 1947.

How significant were the Polish and Hungarian independence movements during the course of the Cold War? What does the Russian response to these movements tell us about the limits of Russian power during this period?

Reforms implemented by Alexander Dubocek in led to a period of great happiness known as .

What was the status of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China in the 1950s and 1960s?

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). containment

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Republic of Vietnam and Democratic Republic of Vietnam

What was true of Tibet?

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). ICBMs

Was the Cold War inevitable? Why and or why not?

Did the fear of nuclear annihilation and the incredible cost of the United States' military buildup of the 1980s help to make the Cold War too ghastly to contemplate and, simultaneously, too expensive for either side to continue? Give evidence in support of your answer.