The Cold War

Question 1

Cold War Key Terms

Answer 1

Stand off and competition, doesn’t lead to direct conflict

Berlin in divided after WWII
Space Race
Arms Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Vietnam War
Satellite Nations
Iron Curtain 
Containment
Berlin Blockade

U.S. has Democracy

Soviet Union has Communism

Question 2

Iron Curtain

Answer 2

The imaginary line that divided the Western European countries from the Eastern European countries after World War II

Made up of Soviet Satellite nations

Satellites protect Soviet mainland

Question 3

Containment

Answer 3

U.S. Policy to contain or stop the spread of Communism

Question 4

Truman Doctrine & The Marshall Plan

Answer 4

Money to Western Europe to stop the spread of communism

Question 5

NATO and WARSAW

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization - democratic country alliance

Warsaw - communist country alliance

Question 6

Division of Germany

Answer 6

Split up after WWII to supervise

Democracy in West

Communist in East

Berlin is in Soviet Section and divided up again

Question 7

Market Economy

Answer 7

Companies are privately owned

Competition controls prices

Question 8

Command Economy

Answer 8

Command Economy

Question 9

Mixed Economy

Answer 9

A combination of a market and command economy

Question 10

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 10

contributed to the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by

introducing the policies of

Perestroika (Shift to Capitalism)

Glasnost (clear, like glass, transparent)

Question 11

Fall of the Berlin War

Answer 11

symbolic end of the cold war

Question 12

Fidel Castro

Answer 12

Gains support in Cuba by targeting the peasants

Leads Communist revolution in Cuba

90 miles from U.S. coast (concerns U.S.)