Unit 8 AP world full review questions and Answers 100% Pass

What is the Cold War? A war in which the powers fighting don't actually engage in armed battle What was the Cold War fought over? Battle b/t U.S. and S.U. who have emerged as superpowers following WWII. They were fighting over captialism and communism Causes of the Ideological struggle of the Cold War? Global balance of economic and political power shifted during and after WWII that fastly spilled over into the Cold War. Democracy of US and authoritarian communism of the S.U., let to conflict and power struggle b/t capitalism and communism across the world How did the Cold War begin? After WWII, was big disagreement with allied powers (G.B.*S.U.*U.S.) on what should happen to Eastern Europe. Soviets wanted Eastern Europe to be under it's influence to balance western aggression, caused creation of the Soviet Block What formal alliances were created because of the Cold War? Warsaw pact (1955) a miltaristic, mutual defense treaty of soviet block; The North Adlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (1949) same thing, but for western nations like British and U.S. (ways U.S. and S.U. sought to maintain influence over cource of Cold War) Why did the actions of the S.U. in Eastern Europe lead to the Cold War? Because U.S. feared spread of communism, which was occuring across Eastern Europe. Communism goal was to spread across the whole world. U.S. was deeply influenced by democracy and capitalism, which had the same goal to spread across the world (Context of war after 1945 explanation)