Cold War

Question 0

Communism ( Soviet Union / USSR, Stalin, Khrushchev )

Answer 0

Stalin then Khrushchev were the communist leaders of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

Question 1

Democracy (United States, FDR, Truman)

Answer 1

Truman and FDR pressed Stalin to have Eastern European countries have free elections to have democracies

Question 2

Meeting at Yalta

Answer 2

US, Britain and Soviet Union met after WWII to divide Germany into zones controlled by allied forces, Germany would pay Germany, Soviets would join war against Japan, and Eastern Europeans would have free elections.

Question 3

Meeting at Potsdam

Answer 3

Truman, Stalin and Churchill met. Truman tried to get Stalin to have free elections in Europe. Stalin refused.

Question 4

Big Three

Answer 4

FDR, Stalin in Churchill

Question 5

Partition of Germany

Answer 5

The Iron Curtain divides Germany into East and West

Question 6

Berlin Airlift

Answer 6

The Soviet Union set up a blockade of western Berlin. US and Britain flew food and supplies into West Berlin for 11 months.

Question 7

Containment

Answer 7

US policy blocking Soviet influence and and stop expansion of communism.

Question 8

Truman Doctrine

Answer 8

Truman’s support for countries that rejected communism.

Question 9

Marshall Plan

Answer 9

Give aid to needy European countries by providing food, machinery and materials to rebuild Western Europe.

Question 10

Mutually Assured Destruction

Answer 10

Complete destruction because both side would fire nucelar weapons at each other.

Question 11

Arms Race (A bomb, H bomb! Tsar Bomba)

Answer 11

H bomb thousands of times more powerful than the A bomb used against Japan. US and USSR raced to have the strongest bombs first.

Question 12

Duck and Cover

Answer 12

A movie for kids to feel safe from nuclear war and taught the kids what to do during a necular attack.

Question 13

Deterrence

Answer 13

when we had protection because we had nukes

Question 14

Brinkmanship

Answer 14

The willingness to go to the brink (edge) of war with nuclear weapons.

Question 15

Space Race

Answer 15

Competition of US and Soviets to develop technology to explore and control space. After 20 years they started to work together to explore space.

Question 16

United Nations (purpose? How different from League of Nations?)

Answer 16

50 countries united to protect each other from aggressors. The security council (Britain, China, France, US, USSR + 6 more) has power to investigate and settle disputes. Countries of UN can deploy armed forces that the League of Nations could not do.

Question 17

NATO

Answer 17

North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defensive military alliance. An attack on any NATO member would be met with armed forces of all members.

Question 18

Warsaw Pact

Answer 18

Alternate alliance to NATO that included USSR, East Germany, Czech, Polland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania.

Question 19

Iron Curtain

Answer 19

Churchill came up with the phrase to describe the division of democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.

Question 20

Domino Theory

Answer 20

Eisenhower said the threat of one Southeast Asian nation fall to communism would lead to the fall of other nations to communism.

Question 21

China

Answer 21

(1949) Communists took over China

Question 22

Vietnam

Answer 22

(1959-1972) Vietnam was controlled by the French but the locals asked communist to help them gain independence.

Question 23

Berlin

Answer 23

Hotspot in berlin was in 1981-1989.

Question 24

Korea

Answer 24

(1950-1953) Japanese north of 38th parallel surrendered to Soviet troops and became communists. South of this line surrendered to American troops and were supported by western powers.

Question 25

Cuba

Answer 25

(1959)Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba and became a harsh dictator for more than 40 years. Cuba was supported by communist USSR.

Question 26

Israel

Answer 26

The taliban fought the communist in isrial. the taliban were islmic religous scholars.

Question 27

Middle East

Answer 27

Soviets began to influence Afganistan. The US supplied Afgan rebels with American weapons to preserve oil supplies. In 1989 the Soviets withdrew from Afganistan.

Question 28

Glasnost

Answer 28

A Soviet policy to allow free flow of ideas and information. Glasnost means openness.

Question 29

Perestroika

Answer 29

Soviet economic restructuring. Gorbachev made changes to revive the Soviet economy.

Question 30

Gorbachev

Answer 30

Soviet leader that brought big changes to economy, social reform, political system, foreign policy.

Question 31

Fall of the Soviet Union

Answer 31

There was a coup and Gorbechev was captured for a few days but came back to power but 15 parts of the Soviet Union declared their independence and became their own countries.

Question 32

Poland/Hungary/Czech

Answer 32

Poland started an economic reform and joined NATO, Hungary and Czech followed.