Cold War

Question 1

Yalta Pact

Answer 1

An agreement that dictated plans for the world after WWII.

Question 2

Cold War

Answer 2

Period of political hostility between Soviet countries and US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990

Question 3

Marshall Plan

Answer 3

Program where the US gave economic aid to European nations after WWII

Question 4

Iron Curtain

Answer 4

A barrier that separated the Communist Soviet bloc and the West during the Cold War

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, international military alliance

Question 6

Warsaw Pact

Answer 6

Military alliance of Communist nations in Europe, organized in 1955 in response to NATO

Question 7

Truman Doctrine

Answer 7

President Truman’s policy of giving aid to any nation being threatened by Communist or totalitarian ideology

Question 8

Cultural Revolution

Answer 8

Social movement in China in the late 1960’s to eliminate antirevolutionary elements in the government and society.

Question 9

Communism

Answer 9

Political system where property is publicly shared rather than owned by individuals.

Question 10

Great Leap Forward

Answer 10

Mao Zedong’s five-year plan to transition China into a society capable of competing with other industrialized nations.

Question 11

Dissidents

Answer 11

Disagreeing with an established religious or political system or belief

Question 12

Glasnost

Answer 12

A public policy in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, where people could openly discuss economic and political issues.

Question 13

Perestroika

Answer 13

In the Soviet Union, a policy or practice of reforming the political and economic system (proposed in 1979)

Question 14

solidarity

Answer 14

independent trade union movement in Poland that developed into a campaign for political change and inspired opposition to Communist regimes across eastern Europe in the 1980’s

Question 15

Satellite nations

Answer 15

A nation that is politically dominated by another (Warsaw Pact nations were satellites of the Soviet Union)

Question 16

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 16

Confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles stationed in Cuba.

Question 17

Brinkmanship

Answer 17

Political practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to its limits before stopping.

Question 18

Detente

Answer 18

The easing of hostility between nations

Question 19

Josef Stalin

Answer 19

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952

Question 20

Mao Zedong

Answer 20

Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People’s Republic of China

Question 21

Chiang-Kai Shek

Answer 21

Leader of the Nationalist party in China

Question 22

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 22

Leader of the Soviet Union in the late 20th centure (80’s to 90’s)

Question 23

Lech Walesa

Answer 23

Polish president from 1990-1995 and trade-union organizer.

Question 24

Boris Yeltsin

Answer 24

President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999

Question 25

Soviet Union

Answer 25

Marxist-Leninist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

Question 26

Poland

Answer 26

Eastern European country

Question 27

China

Answer 27

Communist nation in Asia

Question 28

Tiananmen Square

Answer 28

A square in Beijing, China, where thousands pro-democracy protesters were murdered or arrested in 1989

Question 29

Eastern Europe Nations

Answer 29

Formerly Communist nations in Eastern Europe

Question 30

Oil embargo

Answer 30

During the Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of OPEC decided to impose an oil embargo on the United States in retaliation for the US supplying Israel.