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What did Stalin promise at the Yelta conference in 1945? correct answers Free elections would be held in nation states (Poland,Czechoslovakia,Hungary,Romania and Bulgaria) Winston Churchill used this term in a speech to describe the soviet area of innfluence and the division of the east and west Europe. correct answers Iron Curtain Who was the leader of communist china after the cultural revolution? correct answers Mao Zedong In 1962, what event brought the world to the brink of Nuclear War? correct answers The Cuban missile crisis All of the following were leaders of the soviet Union except correct answers Georgy Malenkov Who was the leader of Cuba? correct answers Fidel Castro All of the following were presidents in the Cold war except correct answers (Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon were the only presidents involved in the cold war) This was the policy that lessened Cold war tensions during the 1970's and was instituted by the nixon administration. correct answers détente How did many americans deal with the fears of nuclear attack during the cuban missle crisis? correct answers Many Americans built fallout shelters. What step did the East Germans take when unhappy East Germans began to flee into West Berlin? correct answers They built a wall America's basic foreign policy towards communist countries correct answers containment Who was the dictator that ruled North Korea during the cold war correct answers Kim il sung How did Kim Il Sung respond to the armistice ending the war in Korea? correct answers Kim remained a steadfast communist, leaving his country isolated and poor. At the end of the Korean War, troops remained dug in on either side of the correct answers demilitarized zone. How did china's youth help conduct a cultural revolution? correct answers Chinese teenagers formed bands of Red Guards. In the decades following the Korean War, South Korea experienced what transition? correct answers South Korea transitioned from military rule to a democratic system.