AP (Advanced Placement) Modern History — practice questions
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Practice AP (Advanced Placement) Modern History in the app →In a 1946 speech in Missouri, Churchill said a barrier had cut Europe in two. He called it an:A student asks for the chief American strategy of the Cold War, meant to confine Soviet influence to Eastern EA president pledged to help free peoples resist communist expansion, setting the course of policy. That pledgeThe European Recovery Program was named for the Secretary of State who launched it. Its common name is the:With land routes to the city cut, the Western Allies supplied a besieged Berlin by air for nearly a year. ThatUnable to break the resolve of the Western Allies, the Soviets lifted the Berlin blockade in:Capitalist democracies joining NATO formed a group of countries united for one purpose. Such a group is calledAfter West Germany joined NATO in 1955, the Soviet Union set up its own military alliance. It was the:Newly independent nations tried to stay out of the orbit of either bloc. Their grouping became the:One Asian nation took a leading role in that movement after hosting a landmark conference. That nation was:In 1948 South Africa formalised racial segregation and discrimination into a legal system called:After the ANC swept the elections, the new National Assembly chose its president. He was:In July 1956 Egypt's new president took a vital waterway into state hands and closed it to Israeli shipping. HIsrael invaded Egypt in October, and Britain and France followed in November. Those attacks set off the:Fighting in Korea was halted by an agreement signed on 27 July 1953. That agreement was an:For ten days in 1962 the world weighed the chance of nuclear war over missiles in the Caribbean. That episode That crisis badly damaged one leader, who was pushed out of office two years afterwards. He was:A wall divided the residents of one city from 1961 until it came down in 1989. That city was:In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, jolting American pride. That satellite was:The shock of that launch pushed the United States to found its own space agency, named:Worn out by the war and facing protests, Britain granted independence to its largest colony in 1947. That coloPolicymakers feared that if one country turned communist its neighbours would follow. That belief is the: