lesson 1

Question 1

Define Cold War

Answer 1

a state of tension and hostility between nations with the United States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other
- no armed conflict

Question 2

Describe the effects of the Cold War

Answer 2

tension among allies
- increased tension worldwide

Question 3

Explain the Unites States policy of containment

Answer 3

limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control

Question 4

Explain how East Germany was formed after World War II

Answer 4

occupation zone in control of the Soviet Union

Question 5

Why did the East German government build the Berlin Wall

Answer 5

to stop low-paid East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin
- looking for jobs in West Germany

Question 6

Explain what the United States and the Soviet Union agrees to during the last two decades of the Cold War

Answer 6

agreed to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ; prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons
- to reduce the threat of nuclear war ; disarmament

Question 7

Describe the global influence of American culture in the decades following World War II

Answer 7

they were scared of communism
- culture was extensive

Question 8

Explain how President JFK to the building of nuclear missile bases in Cuba by the Soviet Union

Answer 8

U.S. uses military/navy blockade from Cuban missiles