The geographic region which was the focus of the beginnings of the Cold War was: Eastern Europe, Western Germany, East Asia, The Middle East
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Eastern Europe
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Winston Churchill coined the term ____ to describe the division between the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe and the American-dominated countries of the West.
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iron curtain
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Which of the following was not an anti-communist force (or heavily criticize communists)? Joseph McCarthy, HUAC, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikita Khrushchev
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The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 involved: A failed US-backed invasion of Cuba, A naval blockade of Cuba by the US to force the removal of Soviet missiles, A battle of wills between US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev, US missiles placed in Cuba over the objection of the Soviet Union
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A naval blockade of Cuba by the US to force the removal of Soviet missiles
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Which country fell to communist forces in the late 1950's?
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Cuba
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To counter the formation of NATO by the United States, the Soviet Union created: SEATO, The Warsaw Pact, The Korean DMZ, Detente
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The Warsaw Pact
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The US policy of ____ sought to limit the spread of communism by allowing it only in areas already under Soviet control.
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containment
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