Finals: The Cold War

Question 1

What caused the Cold War?

Answer 1

The U.S. and the USSR each wanted to spread their conflicting political and economic systems

Question 2

Potsdam conference

Answer 2

1945

U.S., Great Britain and S.U. met at the final wartime conference.

Question 3

Containment

Answer 3

Keep communism from spreading

Question 4

Iron Curtain

Answer 4

Imaginary line that separated communist countries in Eastern Europe from Western Europe

Question 5

Satellite nations

Answer 5

Countries taken over by Soviet Union

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

The U.S. would help countries who were at risk of being taken over by communism

Question 7

What was U.S. foreign policy like after WWII?

Answer 7

Shifted from isolationism to interventionism

Question 8

Marshall Plan

Answer 8

U.S. would give economic aid to countries to help rebuild after the war

Question 9

Warsaw Pact

Answer 9

Military alliance between Soviet Union and satellite nations

Question 10

Berlin airlift

Answer 10

U.S. and Great Britain flew food and supplies to West Berlin after Soviet blockade

Question 11

Why did the U.S. get involved in the Korean War?

Answer 11

1. North Korea crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea

2. Needed to uphold the Truman Doctrine

Question 12

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Answer 12

Western allies agreed to come to the aid of any member who was attacked

Question 13

Massive retaliation

Answer 13

Threatening to use nuclear weapons if communist unions tried to take territory by force

Question 14

Brinkmanship

Answer 14

Willingness to go to the edge of nuclear war to force the other side to go back down

Question 15

Flexible response

Answer 15

Focused on preparing different military responses to nuclear war

Question 16

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 16

Failed air strike against Cuba