Cold War 1
The reason the Cold War was more "hot" than it's name suggests.
What is because 3 major wars & dozens of region conflicts that included genocides were fought during the era?
This economic system, adopted & spread by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government, usually resulting in large scale corruption, orchestrated famine & genocide.
What is communism?
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S.?
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the Soviet Union or Russia?
This is the title given to any war where no direct fighting occurs between the two countries involved.
Cold War
This city was divided into 4 zones of occupation with the USSR controlling the eastern zone and the west split between the USA, the UK & France.
What is Berlin?
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Name the generally accepted years for the start and end of the Cold War?
What is 1945 or 1947 and 1991?
What year did the Berlin wall come down?
What is 1989?
Who was the President when the United States was closest to Nuclear War?
John F. Kennedy
This describes the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war
What is the Arms Race?
This multinational organization was created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe.
What is NATO?
The American agency that works on international crime and collects information to
protect US interests
The C.I.A.
What was the US program called that created the first nuclear weapons?
The Manhattan Project
This ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was with an American Naval blockade and threat of Nuclear War?
This economic system is based on private ownership of property & competition between businesses is driven by the needs of the market, consumers & producers.
Capitalism
The President of the United States at the end of WWII.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations
Warsaw Pact
What does the acronym M.A.D. stand for in Nuclear Warfare?
Mutually Assured Destruction
The USA has done this to punish Cuba for becoming Communist since 1961.
What are sanctions & trade Embargoes?
The leader of the Soviet Union during the first part of the Cold War
Who was Joseph Stalin?
Russia and China obtain plans for nuclear weapons by employing these.
DAILY DOUBLE:
This married couple who worked for the US government during the Cold War were convicted & executed for leaking military secrets & nuclear weapon designs to the NKVD.
What were spies?
Who were the Rosenbergs?
Containment of Communism important to the US because...
What was to continue open trade for allies?
On this date, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
December 25, 1991
What was the only war America officially lost?
Vietnam
Who was the leader of USSR (Russia) during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who was Nikita Krushchev?
Cuba's number 1 export that the US blocked imports of following the Cuban Revolution (when Cuba became a communist dictatorship).
What was sugar?
The US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro in 1961.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
The name of the era when Sen McCarthy falsely accused many US government officials of being Communist traitors
What was the Red Scare?