Ch. 17 Restructuring the Postwar World

What US foreign policy adopted by President Truman in the late 1940s in which the US tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet expansion

• SALT

• Containment

• NATO

• Marshall Plan

What is known as the state of diplomatic hostility between the US and the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII

• Containment

• Brinkmanship

• Cold War

• Détente

According to the section, _____ is a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

• Cold War

• Détente

• Cultural Revolution

• Brinkmanship

what was the uprising in China, led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing society of peasants and workers in which all were equal?

• Commune

• Cultural Revolution

• Vietnamization

• Domino theory

Who was the leader of the Communist party in China following WWII?

• Jiang Jieshi

• Richard Nixon

• Ho Chi Mihn

• Mao Zedong

Who was the leader of the Nationalists in China following WWII?

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• Ho Chi Mihn

• Jiang Jieshi

• Mao Zedong

Where was the line that divided the country of Korea into North and South Korea?

• 40 degrees North Latitude

• 35 degrees North Latitude

• 38 degrees North Latitude

• The Equator

What was a US program of economic aid to European countries to help rebuild after WWII?

• Truman Doctrine

• Destalinization

• Marshall Plan

• SALT

What is a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together?

• Commune

• Internment camp

• Détente

• Soviet Union

a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon

• Truman Doctrine

• Détente

• Iron Curtain

• United Nations