Cold Thoughts

Question 1

MAD

Answer 1

Mutually Assured Destruction - the concept that if a country starts a nuclear war, the enemy will retaliate with nuclear weapons and destroy the original attacker

Question 2

Cause of the Cold War

Answer 2

USSR occupied Eastern Europe, which the western allies hoped would turn into democracies

Question 3

Iron Curtain

Answer 3

The divide between the communist and free countries in Europe

Question 4

Containment

Answer 4

The steps Truman took to oppose the USSR

Question 5

Truman Doctrine (1947)

Answer 5

Pledges American support for democracies against authoritarian threats

Question 6

Marshall Plan

Answer 6

Invested over 13 billion for European recovery, a key factor against communism from taking hold in Western Europe

Question 7

Berlin Airlift

Answer 7

Stalin implemented an economic blockade in West Berlin, and in order to supply them, the allies flew supplies over for almost a year

Question 8

The Federal Republic of Germany

Answer 8

Combination of the US, UK, and French zones

Question 9

The German Democratic Republic

Answer 9

Soviet zone

Question 10

NATO

Answer 10

Created in 1949, it was a military alliance that bound the western allies together and committed the US to go to war if a fellow NATO member is attacked

Question 11

Beginning of the Arms Race

Answer 11

The USSR successfully tested its first atomic bomb

Question 12

The People’s Republic of China

Answer 12

Mao’s forces won and China became communist

Question 13

Korean War

Answer 13

North Korea invades South Korea, US goes to war to contain communism. US almost won, but then China stepped in

Question 14

Eisenhower

Answer 14

Campaigned on liberation rather than containment. Brought an end to the Korea War by dividing it at the 38th parallel.

Question 15

Iran and Guatemala

Answer 15

Overthrew governments which threatened US economic interests (oil and bananas)

Question 16

Vietnam

Answer 16

French were defeated, the US backed the new Republic of Vietnam and the USSR supported the communist version, They sent troops to fight

Question 17

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 17

Stalin’s successor, more friendly with Eisenhower

Question 18

The Suez Crisis

Answer 18

War broke out in the Middle East after Egypt seized the Suez Canal

Question 19

Hungarian uprising

Answer 19

Crushed by the USSR, it was against communism

Question 20

Sputnik

Answer 20

First man-made satellite launched into orbit. Marked the beginning of the Space Rate

Question 21

NASA

Answer 21

Created after sputnik was launched

Question 22

Fidel Castro

Answer 22

Took over Cuba, allied with USSR, CIA wanted to remove him from power