M1 Geography Term 3 Finals (Cold War)

Question 1

What did the USA fear of the USSR?

Answer 1

The destruction of capitalism

Question 2

What did the USSR fear of the USA?

Answer 2

That the US was gonna use money and power to dominate Europe and eventually destroy the USSR

Question 3

What was the Iron Curtain?

Answer 3

The border between the West and the USSR with its satellite countries. (Winston Churchill)

Question 4

What are the years of the Cold War?

Answer 4

1945~1991

Question 5

When did the Soviets test their first nuclear weapon?

Answer 5

1949

Question 6

Who built the wall around West Berlin?

Answer 6

USSR

Question 7

What was containment?

Answer 7

Stopping communism by standing up to the Soviets wherever it looked like they wanted to conquer

Question 8

What is NATO?

Answer 8

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 9

What was the nuclear arms race?

Answer 9

The US and the USSR creating nuclear weapons to strike fear in one another

Question 10

What does MAD stand for?

Answer 10

Mutually Assured Destruction

Question 11

What areas of the world had hot wars for capitalists vs communists?

Answer 11

Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, etc.

Question 12

Who comprised the First World?

Answer 12

USA & Western Europe

Question 13

Who comprised the Second World?

Answer 13

USSR & Satellite Countries

Question 14

Who comprised the Third World?

Answer 14

Every country that wasn’t in the First or Second

Question 15

What is one reason that Soviet socialism didn’t work?

Answer 15

・Human nature loves a society where you can get more
・Soviet rules were just straight up bad

Question 16

Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?

Answer 16

The last leader of the soviets and the one that opened relations to the west.

Question 17

What is glasnost?

Answer 17

Openness (towards the western news, etc.)

Question 18

What is perestroika?

Answer 18

The practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system

Question 19

When did the Berlin Wall fall?

Answer 19

1989