Cold War 1
Who were the world leaders at the Yalta Conference in Feb 1945?
Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is the 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?
Communism
What country was trying to contain communism?
The United States
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
The Soviet Union
What is the term or name given to any war where no direct fighting occurs between the two countries involved?
Cold War
What was the phrase that Churchill used to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union?
The Iron Curtain
What was the system of government that was adopted by the USSR after 1922 and resulted in complete control over the citizens of the Soviet Union and its satellite states?
A totalitarian dictatorship with a communist economic system. (Communist single-party dictatorship)
Who was the statesman who wrote the Long Telegram warning Truman of the looming threat of communism?
(if you can provide the last name that is fine)
George Kennan
What were two of the wars fought during the Cold War era?
- The Korean War
- The Vietnam War
Who was this person that said 'We will bury you'?
Nikita Khruschev
What was the significant physical barrier that was erected between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war?
The Berlin Wall
Name two countries that gained their independence from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, not including Russia itself.
(If you can name more than two countries, you will earn more subsequent points but of course, naming wrong countries will lose you points)
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Who was the statesman who had a birthmark shaped on his head?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the event that 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?
The Berlin Airlift
Name the generally accepted years for the start and end of the Cold War?
(Range: ± 3 years)
What is 1945 - 1991?
What year did the Berlin wall come down?
(Range: ± 3 years)
1989
Who was the President when the United States was closest to Nuclear War?
John F. Kennedy
What was the foreign Policy which states that the U.S. must prevent communism from spreading?
The U.S. policy of containment
What was described as the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war?
The Arms Race
What is the multinational organisation created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe?
NATO
Who was the man accused for assassinating JFK in Dallas in November 1963, by shooting a sniper from a book depository?
Lee Harvey Oswald
What was the US program called that created the first nuclear weapons?
The Manhattan Project
What was the theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall to communism as well?
The Domino Theory
How many zones was Germany divided after World War 2? (Not including Berlin)
4
What is the economic system that is based on private ownership of property & competition between businesses is driven by the needs of the market, consumers & producers?
Capitalism
Who was the President of the United States at the end of WWII?
Harry S. Truman
What was the name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations?
The Warsaw Pact
What does the acronym M.A.D. stand for in Nuclear Warfare?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What were the names of all three wartime conferences held?
(Double points: Can you name the location of where the conferences were held?)
Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam.
Double points: Iran, the Soviet Union (Crimea, Ukraine), Germany.
What was does the term 'Glasnost' translate to?
Openness
What was the first animal sent into space or the name of the animal?
Laika (Dog)
How did the Soviet Union obtain plans for nuclear weapons?
By using spies within the Manhattan Program
What was the United States plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII?
The Marshall plan
On this date, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. What was the date?
(Range: ± 3 years)
December 25, 1991
What was the only war America officially lost?
Vietnam
What was the name of Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union?
'Perestroika'
Who was the leader of the USSR (Russia) during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Krushchev
What was Cuba's number 1 export that the US blocked imports of following the Cuban Revolution (when Cuba became a communist dictatorship)?
Sugar
What was the US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro in 1961?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
What country was the other major communist nation of the world during the Cold War?
(They became a communist nation after a brutal civil war)
China.
(People's Republic of China)
What was the first successful satellite in space?
Sputnik
Name 2 countries that are still communist (to some degree) today.
China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam