Cold War

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

Rivalry between US and Soviet Union fighting for world domination

Question 2

Communism

Answer 2

Govt. has total control

Question 3

Airlift

Answer 3

Flying supplies into Berlin to help those in need

Question 4

Korean War

Answer 4

Commie North Korea invaded South Korea

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made to stop communism

Question 6

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 6

Anti-commie senator who scared Americans about communism

Question 7

Nikita Khruchchev

Answer 7

Dictator of the Soviet Union after Stalin, planned Cuban missile crisis

Question 8

Iron Curtain

Answer 8

Symbolic boundary that divided Europe into 2

Question 9

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 9

Soviet Union put missiles in Cuba and aimed them at the USA

Question 10

Vietnam War

Answer 10

Commie North Vietnam fought South Vietnam

Question 11

Berlin Wall

Answer 11

Wall that divided East Berlin (commies) and West Berlin

Question 12

Germán Ruenification

Answer 12

West and East Germany finally reunited

Question 13

What happened in 1945?

Answer 13

Cold War starts

Question 14

What happened in 1950?

Answer 14

North Korea invades South Korea

Question 15

What happened in 1961?

Answer 15

Berlin Wall is built

Question 16

What was the Cold War?

Answer 16

45 year long conflict of distrust between USA and Soviet Union

Question 17

What are the differences between a communist and a capitalist government?

Answer 17

Communist-govt. in control

Capitalist-people in control

Question 18

What was the “Iron Curtain”?

Answer 18

Invisible line that divided communists and non-communist countries in Europe

Question 19

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 19

Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba and pointed the USA

Question 20

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?

Answer 20

Peaceful agreement to remove all nuclear missiles from Cuba and Turkey

Question 21

What was the Korean War?

Answer 21

Civil war in which North Korea invaded South Korea

Question 22

What was the outcome of the Korean War?

Answer 22

After 3 years and no progress a truce was called. Korea is still divided to this day

Question 23

What country was divided into four parts after World War ||?

Answer 23

Germany

Question 24

What was unique about this division?

Answer 24

Berlin the German capital was controlled by the Soviet Union

Question 25

What was the Berlin Airlift?

Answer 25

The US and it’s allies used planes to air drop food and supplies to the starving people of West Berlin who were trapped by the Soviets.