Cold War

Question 1

Karl Marx (When and why important?)

Answer 1

Co-wrote the communist manifesto, served as a basis for “Marxism”, in the 19th century.

Question 2

Vladimir Lenin (When and why important?)

Answer 2

First leader of the soviet russia from 1917-1924, and leader of the soviet union from 1922-1924. (Influential bad guy).

Question 3

Joseph Stalin (When and why important?)

Answer 3

Leader of the soviet union from 1924-1953, very bad guy, responsible for 8-20 million russian deaths.

Question 4

Totalitarianism

Answer 4

A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Question 5

Communism

Answer 5

A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 6

Iron Curtain

Answer 6

A military and political border that kept communist countries in the east controlled by the Soviet Union. Built to keep in not to keep out.

Question 7

Truman Doctrine/Containment

Answer 7

The US fighting in small country wars to keep communism from spreading, worked until Vietnam. (Containment of Communism).

Question 8

The Marshall Plan

Answer 8

America boosted European economies to stop the spread of communism.

Question 9

Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek (Who won the Civil War?)

Answer 9

The communists won the civil war and reformed China, Nationalists lost.

Question 10

Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism

Answer 10

McCarthy was an American politician, McCarthyism was making false or unsupported accusations against people for suspected anarchism, communism, or socialism.

Question 11

Edward R. Murrow

Answer 11

Father of broadcast journalism, exposed McCarthy for his unethical trials.

Question 12

Ike (Who?)

Answer 12

Nickname for Dwight D. Eisenhower, served as the 34th president from 1953 to 1961

Question 13

“Military-industrial complex”

Answer 13

A country’s military establishment and those industries producing arms or other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest.

Question 14

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 14

Served after Stalin from 1953 to 1964. Sputnik and the Cuban Missile Crisis happened while he was in office. Also implemented De-Stalinization

Question 15

Arms Race

Answer 15

The USA and USSR both increased spending on military weapons, increasing tension, and nuclear threat.

Question 16

Fidel Castro

Answer 16

1959 to 2008 leader of Cuba. In charge during Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a Marxist-Leninist.

Question 17

Bay of Pigs invasion

Answer 17

Failed US military landing in Cuba during the missile crisis.

Question 18

“New Frontier”

Answer 18

JFK’s program.

Question 19

LBJ

Answer 19

36th president from 1963 to 1969. Sworn in after JFK assassination. Civil-rights act, cold war, Vietnam war. (President at the beginning of Vietnam).

Question 20

“Great Society”

Answer 20

LBJ’s program.

Question 21

Know that one homework sheet on the ten cold war events, and the notes we took in class.

Answer 21

Know that one homework sheet on the ten cold war events, and the notes we took in class.

Question 22

Nixon

Answer 22

President at the end of the Vietnam War.

Question 23

The 6 countries East of the Iron Curtain:

Answer 23

Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria.

Question 24

Totalitarianism vs. Communism

Answer 24

Totalitarianism controlled every aspect of society (political philosophy).

Communism had total control of the economy (economic philosophy).

Question 25

The three flaws of Communism:

Answer 25

1. Incentive, people didn’t have incentive to work.
2. Knowledge, how could one dictator know the answer to every problem?
3. Calculation (Price System), How could one dictator know how to run a whole country’s economy?

Question 26

Know the ten events of the Cold War in order, their years, and why they’re important.

Answer 26

1. Berlin Airlift - ‘48-‘49
   It was the first US victory over the USSR
2. USSR Detonated First A-bomb - ‘49
   Created tension between US and USSR
3. Korean War - ‘50-‘53
   First success of the Truman Doctrine
4. Sputnik - ‘57
   USSR taking the lead in the space race
5. Building Berlin Wall - ‘61
   Kept East Germans in, created a prison
6. Cuban Missile Crisis - ‘62
   Closest the US got to nuclear war/destruction
7. Vietnam War - ‘65-‘73
   The first time America lost
8. First Moon Landing - ‘69
   Unifying moment, space race victory
9. Nixon Visits China - ‘72
   The First president to visit Communist China
10. Fall of The Berlin Wall - ‘89
    “End of the Cold War”