Origins of the Cold War
Major Beef
Major Beef
What two superpowers emerged after WWII?
What was the US and USSR
After WWII, Germany was divided into these many occupation zones.
What is four
This alliance of democratic nations was formed in 1949.
What is NATO
Korea was divided along the _____th parallel while Vietnam was divided along the _______th parallel?
What was the 38th and 17th?
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This U.S. foreign policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What was the Policy of Containment
Allied response to Stalin's Blockade to supply West Berlin?
What was the Berlin Airlift?
This type of war is is defined as a conflict in which rivals get involved in other conflicts to weaken the other.
What is proxy wars
This country entered the Korean War to help North Korea.
What is China?
This policy allowed more openness and freedom of speech in the USSR.
What is glasnost?
What was the term coined by Winston Churchill that divided Europe based on ideological differences?
What was the Iron Curtain
This structure built in 1961 was meant to stop East Germans from fleeing west.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This Soviet-led alliance formed in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact
This communist leader founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This policy restructured the Soviet economy.
What is perestroika?
What was the plan that sent $13 Billion USD to some European countries for help - also called European Recovery Program
What was the Marshall Plan
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when the Berlin Wall came down?
Who was Gorbachev?
This theory said nuclear war could be prevented through fear of retaliation.
What is deterrence?
This theory claimed if one nation became communist, nearby nations would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This 1986 nuclear disaster symbolized Soviet weakness.
What Chernobyl?
This meeting in 1945 brought together Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill to discuss postwar Europe.
What was the Yalta Conference?
On this date the Berlin Wall came down?
What was Nov. 9th 1989
This phrase means both sides could destroy each other with nuclear weapons.
What Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
This Nixon policy gradually withdrew U.S. troops from Vietnam.
What was Vietnamization
This year the Soviet Union officially collapsed.
What is 1991?