Origins of the Cold War
Cold War Policies
Major Conflicts
Cold War at Home
Cold War Leaders
Collapse of Communism
Random Sauce
100
THIS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION was founded in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
100
THIS TERM describes the strategy of keeping communism from spreading rather than eliminating it.
What is containment?
100
THIS ASIAN COUNTRY was divided at the 38th parallel and fought the first proxy war of the Cold War from 1950–1953.
What is Korea?
100
THIS FEAR of communist infiltration swept America in the late 1940s and early 1950s after WWII.
What is the Red Scare?
Other acceptable answers:
McCarthyism
100
HE was the U.S. president at the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
THIS SYMBOL OF DIVISION fell in 1989, marking a key moment in the Cold War’s end.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
THIS COMPETITION between the U.S. and USSR began after the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957.
What is the space race?
200
The ideological struggle between THESE TWO economic systems defined the Cold War.
What is capitalism and communism?
200
THIS 1947 US POLICY promised to help countries resist communism. (Hint: Think of the president at this time)
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
The U.S. became heavily involved in THIS SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRY, resulting in a long and controversial war that killed around 58,000 Americans and cost over $168 billion ($1.3 trillion today).
What is Vietnam?
200
THIS WISCONSIN SENATOR led a campaign accusing Americans of being communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
200
THIS U.S. president escalated the Vietnam War.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
The collapse of THIS SUPERPOWER marked the end of the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
200
THIS PHRASE refers to the constant threat of total nuclear destruction between the U.S. and USSR.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD?
300
THIS U.S. MILITARY ALLIANCE, formed in 1949, is still active today and was created to counter Soviet expansion.
What is NATO?
300
THIS THEORY suggested that if one country fell to communism, nearby countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
300
In 1962, THIS CRISIS brought the U.S. and the USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
THIS 1970s SCANDAL involving President Nixon led to a loss of public trust in the government.
What is Watergate?
300
THIS U.S. president gave the famous "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" speech.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
The Cold War officially ended in THIS YEAR.
What is 1991?
300
THIS 1964 INCIDENT off the coast of North Vietnam, involving alleged attacks on U.S. ships, led Congress to give President Johnson broad military powers.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
400
THIS SOVIET-LED MILITARY ALLIANCE was the Eastern Bloc’s response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
THIS PLAN gave over $12 billion in aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII. (Hint: Think of the name of the famous general whom the plan is named after)
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
THIS was the first major crisis of the Cold War. This event involved the Soviets cutting off access to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
400
THIS piece of legislation (1973) reasserted Congress's right to authorize military action, overturning (in theory) the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964.
What is the War Powers Act (1973)?
400
THIS Soviet leader placed missiles in Cuba in 1962.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
THIS ECONOMIC POLICY allowed some private business in the USSR and aimed to fix the economy — but it also weakened the central government’s control and is one of the factors that led to the dissolution of the USSR.
What is perestroika?
400
To counter the Berlin Blockade, the U.S. and Britain launched THIS year-long supply mission.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
THIS TERM described Winston Churchill’s speech about the division of Europe between east and west.
What is the Iron Curtain?
500
THIS COLD WAR POLICY in the 1970s aimed to reduce tensions between the U.S. and USSR through diplomacy and arms agreements (e.g. SALT I, SALT II, and START)
What is Détente?
500
In 1956, a revolution against the communist government in THIS EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY was crushed by Soviet tanks, showing the limits of U.S. intervention in Eastern Europe.
What is Hungary? Part of the Hungarian Revolution.
500
THESE TWO AMERICAN CITIZENS were executed for allegedly giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
500
THIS Soviet leader is often blamed for the dissolution of the USSR after he began reforms like glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
THIS SOCIAL POLICY, meaning "openness," allowed more freedom of speech and press in the Soviet Union — which ironically sped up criticism of the government.
What is glasnost?
500
THIS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE investigated suspected communists in the U.S., especially in Hollywood, during the early Cold War.
What is HUAC — the House Un-American Activities Committee?