Cold War Quiz

Question 1

What was the Cold War?

Answer 1

A period of conflict between the Soviet Union and the US that did not ever break into full scale war

Question 2

What is the difference between cold and hot wars?

Answer 2

What is the difference between cold and hot wars?
Cold wars use only words, hot wars use weapons

Question 3

What caused the Cold War?

Answer 3

What caused the Cold War?
The USSR wanted to turn other countries Communists as a way to protect themselves from future wars, and the US wanted to stop communism from spreading.

Question 4

What is containment?

Answer 4

What is containment?
This is how the US was going to stop the spread of communism.

Question 5

What was US plan for containment?

Answer 5

What was US plan for containment?
We would use either money or fighting to stop communism anywhere it sprang up throughout the world.

Question 6

What was USSR plan for containment?

Answer 6

What was USSR plan for containment?
They would try to get countries to become communist

Question 7

What was NATO?

Answer 7

What was NATO?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was a group of friendly countries who promised to protect each other from the spread of communism and the Soviet Union

Question 8

What was Warsaw Pact?

Answer 8

What was Warsaw Pact?
This was the alliance of communist countries and was controlled by the Soviet Union.

Question 9

How was the following events part of containment?
-Cuban missile crisis

Answer 9

How was the following events part of containment?
Cuban missile crisis
-The Soviets tried to ship nuclear weapons to communist Cuba, and we refused to let the ships in

Question 10

How was the following events part of containment?
-Vietnam War

Answer 10

Vietnam war
The communist North Vietnamese and Vietcong, backed by the Soviet Union, were fighting to control the capitalist South Vietnam. The US backed the South to stop the whole country from becoming communist.

Question 11

How was the following events part of containment?
-korean war

Answer 11

Korean war
The communist North, backed by communist China, were fighting to control the capitalist South Korea. The US backed the South to stop the whole country from becoming communist.

Question 12

How was the following events part of containment?
-marshall plan

Answer 12

Marshall plan
When countries in Europe began to seeing a rise in communism in their own countries, the US gave them billions of dollars to improve their country so communism would seem less appealing.

Question 13

How was the following events part of containment?
-berlin airlift

Answer 13

Berlin airlift
The Soviet Union cut off water, electric, and trade to West Berlin, and dared the US to do something about it. Instead of fighting, we flew in all the supplies the country would need for an entire year.

Question 14

What was the Arms Race?

Answer 14

What was the Arms Race?
Both the Soviets and the Americans were both worried the other would build superior weapons which could destroy whole countries
The United States and the Soviet Union began building more nuclear weapons and ways to deliver them

Question 15

What is Mutually Assured Destruction?

Answer 15

What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
If one country attacks the other, the response would ensure both sides are destroyed
Neither side wanted to attack because of this

Question 16

Explain two parts of Butter Battle.

Answer 16

Explain two parts of Butter Battle.
Butter difference- Communism or Capitalism
M.A.D. policy- did not want to drop their bomb at the end
Wall that divided them- Berlin Wall
Arms Race- building up their weapons to be better than each others

Question 17

How was the Space Race an effect of the arms race?

Answer 17

How was the Space Race an effect of the arms race?
The race to come up with ways to deliver the nuclear weapons led to the Space Race
The Space Race turned into a scientific battle
Missiles led to rockets which could reach space
The Soviets launched the first satellite “Sputnik” which set of a frenzy in the United States
Ended with the US landing on the moon
This race to led all sorts of new technology

Question 18

What is decolonization?

Answer 18

What is decolonization?
Former colonies that were formed during Imperialism times started to push back and gain independence to rule themselves.

Question 19

Explain each of the causes for decolonization.
Colonial nationalism

Answer 19

Explain each of the causes for decolonization.
Colonial nationalism
Many natives fought for the European countries in WWII to try and gain freedom.
Groups formed in colonies to push for natives to rule their own countries.

Question 20

Explain each of the causes for decolonization.
-cost of colonies

Answer 20

Cost of colonies
After WW2, European countries did not have the money needed to deal with these nationalist movements.
Wars and violent rebellions were expensive, and the European public was not ready to back more wars around the globe.

Question 21

Explain each of the causes for decolonization.
-pressure from US/USSR

Answer 21

Pressure from US/USSR
US
After WW2, the idea of freedom and equality because accepted as the norm.
We pressured our friends to put that idea into practice by treating the colonies the same
USSR
Communism preaches about equality of the working class, and urged nationalist leaders to rise up against their “rich, capitalist rulers”

Question 22

How did the ending of colonization affect the new countries?

Answer 22

How did the ending of colonization affect the new countries?
- When the imperialist countries left the colonies, they did not leave a functioning government behind
-The countries are almost always poor because they lost out on the use of their resources
-Genocides and wars are still going on today in regions
-Rwanda Genocide movie