ORIGINS
The name of the period between 1947 and 1991
a) Second World War
b) First World War
c) Cold War
c) Cold War
The first localized conflict in the Cold War
a) The Korean War
b) The Cuban Misile
c) The Greek Civil War
c) The Greek Civil War
The first conflict in this period:
a) The Korean war
b) The Hungarian Revolution
c) The Vietnam war
b) The Hungarian Revolution
What part of vietnam was communist in 1954?
a) North
b) South
c) Both
a) North
The Capitalist bloc was led by ___________
United States
The People´s Republic of China was proclaimed by_______________.
Mao Zedong
The communist built the __________________ in 1961 that divided Berlin in 2 parts until 1989
The Berlin Wall
The USA assisted South Vietnam against ____________ a group of communists from North Vietnam and Cambodia.
Vietcong
The name of the 2 blocs in the Cold war
- Western (Capitalist)
- Eastern (Communist)
The name of the West Germany and East Germany
- Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/RFA)
- German Democratic Republic (GDR/RDA)
Sucessors in USSR and USA (Of Stalin and Eisenhower)
-Kruschev
- Kennedy
A general who imposed a dictatorship in Chile in 1973.
Augusto Pinochet
It´s the most destructive weapon of the History, more powerful than Hydrogen bomb
What is the Tsar bomb?
It was an agreement signed in 1953 that established two separate states: North Korea and South Korea
What was the Korean Armistice Agreement?
It was a problem between Egypt and Israel (together with Britain and France) for the control of an essential route
What was the Suez Canal Crisis?
It was A series of reforms that Alexander Bubcek introduced in 1968 in Czechoslovakia
The Prague Spring?
The characteristic of the Cold War
-Bipolar Order
- Arms race
- Areas of Influence
- Propaganda
- Threat of war
- Regional conflicts
- Secret services
The name of the 2 economics pact of each bloc and the name of the 2 militaries pact of each bloc
- Marshall Plan and COMECON
- NATO and Warsaw Pact
Resume the Cuban missile Crisis:
USSR send missiles to Fidel Castro against USA . Kennedy imposed a blockade on Cuba. The III World War could have started but Kruschev removes the missiles.
The Events that contributed to the end of the Cold War:
- Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
- Fall of Berlin wall
- fall of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe
-Dissolution of Warsaw Pact
- Break-up of the USSR