Cold War Terms
Cold War People
Cold War USSR/US
Cold War Asia
Cold War Stuff
100
This Russian term is the policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information in the Soviet Union.
What is glasnost?
100
What was the name of the Communist island nation off the coast of Florida? Who was the leader of this nation?
What is Cuba.....Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
Where North and South Korea agreed to split.
What is the 38th parallel?
100
The Soviet Union sent up a spy Satellite What was it called?
Sputnik
200
Define communism and provide three examples of how it is different from capitalism.
teacher discretion
200
This US President came to the Berlin Wall in the early 60s and told the people of West Berlin that he/United States would always support them against communism?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
Organization of allied nations who joined forces in the West to support any threats of Communism.
What is NATO?
200
US couple who were convicted of treason during the 1950s?
the Rosenberg couple?
200
United States spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union?
U2 Spy Plane
300
This 1948-1949 event saw the Soviet Union preventing any travel to the Western part of this city, leading to a massive ___________by the Western Allies.
What is the Berlin Blockade? Airlift (teacher discretion)
300
This person represented the USSR in both the Potsdam and Yalta Conferences
Who is Josef Stalin?
300
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
300
This invasion by the North in 1950 started a United Nations War?
What is Korean War?
300
Failed invasion, by the Kennedy administration, to get rid of communist government in Cuba?
Bay of Pigs Invasion
400
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the ideological and physical barrier dividing Europe between East and West.
Who is Iron Curtain?
400
This President wanted to contain communism
Who is Harry Truman?
400
Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war. Which decade was it created?
What is the Berlin Wall? 1960s
400
This ________ war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting. 1950s to the 1970s
Proxy, What is the Vietnam War?
400
Kennedy almost started WWIII when he found out this nation had nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union. They could reach the US in less than ten minutes
Cuban Missile Crisis
500
List at least FOUR SYMBOLS of the Cold War
Teacher discretion
500
This person created lots of Paranoia in the United States by accusing people of being communists?
Who is Sen. Joe McCarthy?
500
This US foreign policy doctrine, announced in 1947, pledged to support countries resisting communist pressure.
What is the Truman Doctrine
500
Two stark similar conflicts saw the U.S. and its allies supporting South against communist North and its Communist allies
What is Vietnam and Korea
500
The creation of this new nation, by the United Nations, ended in a war and left a few million people without a country to live in (made them refugees)?
The creation of the state Israel