chapter 23 test review history

glasnost means

openess

what did glasnost demonstrate?

a hope to to make the soviet government more democratic and forthright

group that is even more radical than the Palestinian liberation organization (PLO)

hamas

the great chinese protest took place at ____ square

tiananmen

russian leader that pushed the soviet union toward collapse

mikhail gorbachev

if south vietnam fell to communism, then other countries would fall as well. Eisenhower called this the ______.

domino theory

after america withdrawed from south vietnam, the neighboring countries of ____ and _____ fell to the communists

laos, cambodia

US president _____ gradually reduced the american involvement in vietnam

richard nixon

the program of gradual american withdrawal was called

Vietnamization

the communist leader of vietnam

ho chi minh

military alliance between russia and its satellite states in eastern europe

warsaw pact

commander of the UN forces in korea

douglas macarthur

organization formed in europe to ally member nations against a common enemy

NATO (north atlantic treaty organization)

greatest symbol of the cold war

berlin wall

communist militant who gained control of cuba in 1959

fidel castro

winston churchill’s term to represent the division between the communist world and the free world

iron curtain

cia trained cuban exiles who tried but failed to invade cuba was called the

bay of pigs

declined to run for reelection because of his unpopular policies in vietnam

lyndon johnson

became first non communist leader of poland since 1945

lech walesa

declared vietnam free of french rule

ho chi minh

forced the soviets to remove their missles from cuba

john f kennedy

limited wars between small powers backed by either the soviets or the us during the cold war was called

contained wars

communist guerillas in south vietnam

viet cong

soviets development of their first atomic bomb spawned the

arms race

congress authorized the president to go to war with Vietnam after an attack on warships in the

gulf of tonkin

americans turned against the war effort after the

tet offensive

a relaxation of tension

detente

american spy plane shot down by soviets

u-2 incident

the collapse of the _____ was caused by unsettled leadership, economic woes, and unrest of eastern europeans

soviet union

it is _____ that the u-2 incident was a part of the vietnam war

false

the ____ parallel marked the border between north and south korea

38th parallel

what was the purpose of the cultural revolution

stir up zeal for radical communism

what did charles de gaulle’s fifth republic’s constitution provide for?

provided for a strong president