Cold war: Superpower Face Off

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world

Question 2

Warsaw Pact

Answer 2

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries

Question 3

Brinkmanship

Answer 3

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

Question 4

Iron curtain

Answer 4

During the Cold War the boundary separated into communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe

Question 5

Truman Doctrine

Answer 5

Announced by president Harry Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents

Question 6

Containment

Answer 6

A U.S. foreign policy adopted by president Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliance and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II

Question 8

Cold War

Answer 8

The state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II

Question 9

ICBM

Answer 9

Intercontinental ballistic missile that pushed Sputnik above the earths atmosphere

Question 10

Sputnik

Answer 10

The first unmanned satellite from the Soviet Union that went above the earths atmosphere

Question 11

H-Bomb

Answer 11

Power came from the fusion or joining together of atoms
(Hydrogen Bomb) much stronger then the atom bomb
The United States tested the first one in 1952

Question 12

NATO

Answer 12

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-a defense military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada.