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Identify the following term(s).
-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

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Question 2

Identify the following term(s).
-iron curtain

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Question 3

Describe how the Korean War was a direct result of the Cold War and discuss the outcome of the war?

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Question 4

What is meant by the term "bipolar world?"

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Question 5

Using Map (in the textbook) 31.3, describe the locations of oil wells. Which countries are the members of OPEC? How does oil become a weapon? How important are the geostrategic maritime chokeholds of the Suez Canal, Bab al Mandeb, and the Strait of Hormuz?

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Question 6

In 1956, 25 percent of Cuban national income was derived from

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A)   tin and nickel mining.
B)   the United Fruit Company.
C)   sugar manufacture and export.
D)   United States foreign aid.
E)   casinos and tourism.

Question 7

Third World nations were

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A)   unwilling to flirt with either the US or the USSR.
B)   ignored by the Soviet Union.
C)   mostly in Latin America.
D)   usually newly independent, poor nations.
E)   all in the Northern Hemisphere.

Question 8

Identify the following term(s).
-non-aligned nations

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Question 9

The United Nations Security Council included seven rotating members and which of the following nations as permanent members

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A)   the United States.
B)   Britain.
C)   the USSR.
D)   France.
E)   China.F. All of the above

Question 10

President Lyndon Johnson's reform agenda for American was committed to social reforms and civil rights initiatives and it was called the

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A)   New Deal.
B)   Square Deal.
C)   New Frontier.
D)   Great Society.
E)   Peace Corps.

Question 11

Fidel Castro's political actions in Cuba were intended to _______________.

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Question 12

The first British colony in West Africa to gain independence was

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A)   Ghana.
B)   Rhodesia.
C)   Guinea.
D)   Nigeria.
E)   Egypt.

Question 13

Identify the following term(s).
-Cuban missile crisis

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Question 14

Which of the following can be said of the French-Algerian War?

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A)   It ended in 1962 with Algerian independence.
B)   Algerian forces were supported by Egypt and other Arab countries.
C)   It began with an uprising in 1954.
D)   It produced an Algerian independence movement organized by the Front de Liberation National of the FLN.
E)   All of the above.

Question 15

What was the difference between the League of Nations and the United Nations to achieve a resolution or action?

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The League of Nations required a unanimo...

Question 16

Using Map (in the textbook) 31.1, point out what European nations became part of the Soviet bloc in eastern Europe. Why did they affiliate with the USSR instead of the West?

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The European nations that became part of...

Question 17

Identify the following term(s).
-Cold War

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Question 18

The Korean War, 1950-1953, was limited to the Korean peninsula because

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A)   the United States feared that attacking China might prompt Soviet retaliation.
B)   neither side could win a decisive victory.
C)   military technology had stagnated.
D)   geographic conditions favored a defensive war.
E)   of the inaccessibility of its location.

Question 19

Identify the following term(s).
-Korean War

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Question 20

Discuss whether the Cold War was caused more by political ideology or technology. Why did this issue come to overshadow the process and importance of decolonization?

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The Cold War was really a matter of ideo...

Exam 31: The Cold War and Decolonization

Identify the following term(s). -Korean War

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The United Nations Security Council included seven rotating members and which of the following nations as permanent members

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Describe how the Korean War was a direct result of the Cold War and discuss the outcome of the war?

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Third World nations were

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Identify the following term(s). -non-aligned nations

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President Lyndon Johnson's reform agenda for American was committed to social reforms and civil rights initiatives and it was called the

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Identify the following term(s). -Cuban missile crisis

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Identify the following term(s). -Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

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Using Map (in the textbook) 31.1, point out what European nations became part of the Soviet bloc in eastern Europe. Why did they affiliate with the USSR instead of the West?

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Using Map (in the textbook) 31.3, describe the locations of oil wells. Which countries are the members of OPEC? How does oil become a weapon? How important are the geostrategic maritime chokeholds of the Suez Canal, Bab al Mandeb, and the Strait of Hormuz?

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Discuss whether the Cold War was caused more by political ideology or technology. Why did this issue come to overshadow the process and importance of decolonization?

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The first British colony in West Africa to gain independence was

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What is meant by the term "bipolar world?"

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Identify the following term(s). -iron curtain

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In 1956, 25 percent of Cuban national income was derived from

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Fidel Castro's political actions in Cuba were intended to _______________.

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The Korean War, 1950-1953, was limited to the Korean peninsula because

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Identify the following term(s). -Cold War

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What was the difference between the League of Nations and the United Nations to achieve a resolution or action?

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