CST- Cold War A-D

Question 1

38th Parallel

Answer 1

latitude that divides north and south korea

Question 2

Anti-Ballistic Missiles

Answer 2

Missiles used to intercept & destroy ballistic missiles

Question 3

Berlin Airlift

Answer 3

First Cold War event; Stalin places a blockade around Berlin and the Allies flu shipments of supplies in for over a year

Question 4

Berlin Wall

Answer 4

Built in 1962 to divide the city of Berlin into east and west

Question 5

Cold War

Answer 5

time period covering 1945-1991 where the Super Powers (USA+USSR) were at odds with each other

Question 6

Collectivization

Answer 6

Farming reorganization used by Mao in China (was like Stalin’s)

Question 7

Containment

Answer 7

Keeping Communism in the places where it already existed without letting it spread

Question 8

Cultural Revolution

Answer 8

Mao’s attempt to regain power through the Red Guards

Question 9

Demilitarized Zone

Answer 9

Area surrounding the 38th Parallel in which neither side is allowed to enter w/any military personnel or weapons

Question 10

Détente

Answer 10

A cooling off period during the Cold War between President Nixon and Premier Brezhnev

Question 11

Domino Theory

Answer 11

The belief that if one country fell to communism then the surrounding countries would also fall

Question 12

Fidel Castro

Answer 12

the leader of Cuba who took over the country in 1959