Greenbaum The cold war

Question 1

What happened at the Yalta Conference near the end of WWII?

Answer 1

The allies agreed to divide Germany into four zones: American zone, British zone, French zone, and Russian zone

Question 2

What was the Cuban Missle Crisis in 1962?

Answer 2

It was a tense period where the U.S feared for its security due to the close proximity of nuclear weapons

Question 3

What is the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 3

It was an alliance between the Soviet Union and seven other communist countries

Question 4

Who is Fidel Castro

Answer 4

It led the Cuban Revolution by overthrowing the government and ruling Cuba as a strict communist country with assistance from the Soviet Union

Question 5

What was the cold war?

Answer 5

This was when the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union entered a time period (1945-1991) of a very tense relationship after WWII was over

Question 6

Who were the Satellite States?

Answer 6

They were the neighbors of the Soviet Union and remained under its communist influence and pressure

Question 7

What was the main goal of the United Nation?

Answer 7

To solve international conflict

Question 8

What did the SALT/START state make them agree to?

Answer 8

They made the Soviet Union and the United States agree to limit nuclear weapons

Question 9

Where was Korea divided after years of fighting?

Answer 9

The 38th parallel

Question 10

What is the difference between North and South Korea?

Answer 10

North Korea was aided by the Soviet Union and China and they fought to establish Communism while South Korea fought to establish democracy

Question 11

What was the symbol of the end of the cold war?

Answer 11

The fall of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany

Question 12

What was MAD

Answer 12

In the arms race, the USSR and the U.S competed with each other to amass the most powerful weapons. MADSstands for Mutually Assured Destruction

Question 13

What is solidarity?

Answer 13

The Polish workers organized this union and it was led by Leah Walesy which also led to the fall of Communism

Question 14

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 14

It was established so that the United States will help any (non communist) country establish a Democratic government and give economic aid to Greece and Turkey ($400 mil)

Question 15

What led to the breakdown of Communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Answer 15

Gorbachev’s policies of Perestroika (openness) and Glastnos (economic reform to allow for more capitalism)

Question 16

What is the Marshall plan?

Answer 16

The United States provided economic aid to worn torn countries in western Europe. Provides food, machines, medicines, etc. ($12.5 bil)

Question 17

What happened to Germany after WWII?

Answer 17

It was divided into 4 zones. East Germany became Communist and was controlled by the USSR

Question 18

What did the Soviets do in 1956?

Answer 18

They crushed the Hungarian uprising efforts to rebel against a communist government

Question 19

What did the Berlin wall separate?

Answer 19

The concrete wall divided communist East Berlin from Democratic West Berlin

Question 20

What was the US policy of containment?

Answer 20

It was an effort to stop communism from spreading

Question 21

What was the significance of the Vietnam war?

Answer 21

It represented a failure of the US in stopping the spread of communism in Asia when the South surrendered to the North and became communist

Question 22

What is the Iron curtain?

Answer 22

The ideological divide between Eastern and Western Europe by Winston Churchill

Question 23

What is the domino theory?

Answer 23

The US and its allies feared this so-called chain reaction of countries falling to communism

Question 24

What is Nato

Answer 24

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between ten democratic Western European nations joined with the United States and Canada

Question 25

What was the Berlin airlift?

Answer 25

Soviet Union cut off traffic, water, and food to East Berlin and hoped that this would force the US to give up on West Berlin but the Americans and British decided to fly food supplies into East Berlin for 11 months. (May 1949 the blockade was lifted)

Question 26

What was the Potsdam agreement?

Answer 26

It was the agreement between three of the allies of WWII for the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany.

Question 27

What was the general idea of the Cuban Revolution?

Answer 27

Cuba’s old regime Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959 and US refused to recognize Castro’s government so Castro nationalized American companies without compensation and the Us broke off relations with Cuba which means no trade and then Cuba turned to the USSR for aid

Question 28

What were some differences between Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro?

Answer 28

Batista was a big anti-communist supporter and used secret police and terror to control the country. Meanwhile, Castro wanted democratic reforms and rights

Question 29

Who were the satellite states

Answer 29

Satellite nations are the eastern European nations that were allied with and are under the control of the soviet union during the cold war