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How was Cold War political?

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Communism vs Democracy

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How was Cold War military?

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Nuclear Arms Race

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How was Cold War economics?

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Communism vs Capitalism

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How was Cold War cultural?

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Freedom vs “Police State”

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Ho was Cold War education?

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Space Race

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What was the Cold War?

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A battle between two different sets of beliefs or ideologies

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Who were the key leaders of the Cold War?

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Harry S. Truman

Stalin

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What country was Truman?

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USA

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What country was Stalin?

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Russia

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What countries were a part of The Communist World?

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USSR
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
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What countries were a part of The Free World?

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USA
Canada
France
West Germany
Italy
Great Britain (UK)
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What was the goal of containment?

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to “contain” or hold back the soviets and let communism collapse on its own

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What was the Cold War seen as?

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A global war to win world domination and to outlast the enemy

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What were means of containment?

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Collective Security - NATO vs Warsaw
Economic Programs - Marshall Plan
Political Will - Truman Doctrine
Espionage and Covert - CIA vs KGB
Proxy Wars
Nuclear Deterrent - Nuclear Arms Race
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What did the Truman Doctrine promote?

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military and political aid to any nation willing to resist communism

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How much money did the USA give Turkey and Greece?

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$400 dollars

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What was the Marshall Plan?

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Economic aid program to rebuild Western Europe

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What is a missile gap?

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When a country is nervous about having less nuclear weapons

19
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What is a hydrogen bomb?

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Even more powerful than a nuclear bomb (10000x)

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What is an ICBM?

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Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. It is a warhead tipped missile

21
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What is a neutron bomb?

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Killed only with radiation leaving buildings intact

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What is MAD?

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Mutually Assured Destruction.

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What was the Nuclear Triad?

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Land based missiles, bombs from aircrafts, and submarine launched missiles

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What is fallout?

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Nuclear radiation

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What is a mushroom cloud?

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After-effects of an atomic bomb

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What is a silo?

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Where the missiles are stored underground

27
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What is a bomb shelter?

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Backyard shelters for families that would have protected nobody

28
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How does World War II end?

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Truman drops bombs on Japan

29
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What two superpowers dominated after WWII?

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USA and Russia (USSR)

30
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Where was the United Nations (UN) created?

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New York City (NYC)

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What two regions were separated during the start of the Cold War?

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The East and West

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How did Churchill start the Iron Curtain speech?

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He condemned the United States and the pinnacle of the world

33
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What year did the USSR detonate their first bomb?

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1949

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Where did the Chinese nationalists flee to after the Chinese civil war?

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Taiwan (Republic of China)

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What was Mao Zedong?

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A communist

36
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Who was Chiang Kai-shek?

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A nationalist

37
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Who was supported by the USSR?

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Mao Zedong

38
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Who was supported by the USA?

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Chiang Kai-shek

39
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Why did Truman fire Mac?

A

He wanted to launch Nukes at the Chinese

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