MGI Test 2

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Created Oct 4, 2011
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	Side A	Side B
1	Afghan "freedom fighters"	Mujahideen
2	First leader of post-communist Russia	Boris Yeltsin
3	Glasnost	social openness in Russia
4	Perestroika	economic restructuring in Russia
5	Communist side of Germany	East
6	Decade when most democracies in South America became stable	the 80's
7	Time period when Red Guards executed thousands of educated Chinese	Cultural Revolution
8	Plan where US gave billions in economic aid to western Europe	Marshall Plan
9	Radical group that took power over Afghanistan in 1996	Taliban
10	Result of the Korean War	stalemate
11	International crisis in 1962 between the US and USSR	the Cuban Missile Crisis
12	In 1959, he came to power in Cuba	Fidel Castro
13	Leader of Chinese nationalists who fled to Taiwan	Chiang Kaishek
14	Last leader of the USSR who initiated major reforms	Gorbachev
15	Place where Chinese army killed thousands of protestors in 1989	Tiananmen Square
16	Peace organization created after WWII	United Nations
17	Physical Iron Curtain	the Berlin Wall
18	South American country that overthrew its military government in 1979	Brazil
19	Type of warfare used in Vietnam and Afghanistan	Guerilla warfare
20	Another tern for the puppet governments in Eatern Europe	Satellites
21	Leader of communist North Vietnam	Hochiminh
22	Site of the 2008 Olympics	Beijing
23	Leader of Chinese communists who gained power in 1949	Mao Zedong
24	Chinese icon of freedom and democracy	Tank man
25	Containment	A policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and preventing communism.
26	Truman Doctrine	Truman's support for countries that rejected communism.
27	NATO	An alliance between the US, western Europe, and Canada that formed a defensive military alliance.
28	Warsaw Pact	An alliance between the Soviet Union and other communist countries.
29	Brinkmanship	Willingness to go to the brink, or edge, in war.
30	Cold War	A state of diplomatic hostility that developed between the two superpowers. Lasted from 1945...
31	Yalta Conference	A meeting where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to decide what to do after WWII.
32	What is the role of the government in communism?	The gov. owns everything and controls wages for work and prices paid for goods.
33	Communist ideas where based on...	the ideas of Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto.
34	Deterrence Theory	The fear of mutual destruction.
35	United Nation	The US, Soviet Union, and 48 other countries joined to protect its members against aggression.
36	United State's Goals in Europe:	1. Democracy 2. Gain access to raw materials to fuel industry 3. Rebuild Eu. govs. to promote...
37	Soviet Union's Goals in Europe:	1. Communism 2. Use their indust. equip. & raw materials to boost their war-ravaged economy 3....
38	"Iron Curtain"	Represented Europe's division between a mostly democratic western Europe and a communist...
39	Where did Winston Churchill give his famous iron curtain speech?	Fulton, Missouri
40	Why was the Berlin Wall built?	To keep people living in Eastern Europe who were dissatisfied with communism from escaping...
41	What was the goal of perestroika?	to allow economic freedom
42	Why did Gorbachev begin the policy of glasnost?	he thought it would strengthen the Soviet Union. it had to do with society. ex: opened churches,...
43	Tiananmen Square Massacre.	When- 1989 Where- Tiananmen Square in Beijing What- chinese army was sent in to break up...
44	Bay of Pigs- 1961	The US treied, but failed to overthrow Castro
45	Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?	Nikita Khrushchev
46	When was the Berlin Wall bulit and later destroyed?	August 15, 1961 and November 9, 1989
47	Why did chinese peasants support Mao Zedong?	He promised them land reforms and basic needs under communism.