Important Figures
These two important figures were the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who are Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy?
This is the name of the parallel that divided North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
This is what the United States had to do to send supplies into west Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
These are the names of the two major leaders during Cuba's Revolution.
Who are Fidel Castro and Che Guevara?
These are the 2 economic ideologies of the U.S.S.R.
What are communism and socialism?
In order, these are the three U.S. presidents who succeeded F.D.R.
Who are Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy?
This is the proper name for the "zone" that separates North and South Korea.
What is the Demilitarized Zone?
Name the international locations where the United States and the U.S.S.R. placed their nuclear weapons.
What are Italy and Turkey (U.S.) and Cuba (U.S.S.R.)?
This is the U.S. state that is less than 100 miles away from Cuba.
What is Florida?
These are the names of countries that are under the direct influence of the U.S.S.R. List at least 2 examples.
What are satellite states? Examples include Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Describe how Fidel Castro was a similar dictator to either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.
Charismatic, loved by the people, promised prosperity for their country, killed the opposition, etc...
This is what General Douglas MacArthur wanted to do which ultimately led to President Truman firing him.
What is "drop a nuclear bomb on China?"
This is the name of the speech that Winston Churchill gave after the escalation of communism occurred throughout Europe. How does this speech relate to the Berlin Wall?
What is the Iron Curtain Speech? The Iron Curtain represented a metaphorical divide between capitalism and communism while the Berlin Wall was a physical divide put up by the Soviet Union.
The C.I.A. tried to kill Fidel Castro at least 634 times. What does this say about Fidel Castro and the United States? Be specific.
The U.S. considered Fidel Castro a threat. Communism that was close to the United States was not good for the United States.
What did the Soviet Union do to try and stop the Marshall Plan? What was their reason for doing it?
The Soviet Union declined the aid from the Marshall Plan. The reason for doing this was so that the countries in their control would not be financially successful and want to turn to capitalism.
President Truman had this main policy when it came to global affairs. Name it and define it.
What is containment? U.S. Strategy of limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet Control. Containing communism to where it already is so it won't spread.
What happened that allowed North Korea to successfully take over the majority of South Korea in 1950?
A surprise invasion with strong support from China (China gave mostly moral support and no physical troops at this time).
These are the reasons that suspicions developed by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. at the beginning of the Cold War.
What are "the United States being furious that Stalin was an ally to Hitler at one point" and "the U.S.S.R. being furious that the U.S. kept the development of the atomic bomb a secret?"
In detail, describe how the Bay of Pigs was a failure for the United States.
The answer will include something about appeasement failure, creating a new, close communist state, or being a failure for the U.S. military.
This is the name of the alliance that the Soviet Union created in response to NATO. What was the significance of this alliance?
What is the Warsaw Pact? The significance was that the Warsaw Pact showcased that other countries also aligned with the Soviet Union so if a Western country attacked any of the Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union would retaliate.
This was the figure that Fidel Castro overthrew. Why did the United States care that this revolution occurred, specifically in regard to the old regime being overthrown?
Who is General Batista? The United States cared because they put General Batistsa into a position of power and Cuba was a satellite state and ally of the United States. A new government meant that the United States would lose a valuable asset.
Describe the U.N.'s involvement in the Korean War. Did they approve of anything and was there any way another country could have stopped it? Be descriptive.
The U.S. went to the U.N. to get them to approve an army to attack. The U.S.S.R. could have stopped with their veto but they were boycotting because the U.N. did not let China join. The U.N. approved a force that was mostly composed of American soldiers.
What is the Marshall Plan provided financial aid to Europe while the Truman Doctrine aimed to contain communism by any means necessary? Examples include giving 12.5 billion dollars to Europe (which the U.S.S.R. declined) and sending troops and money into Korea to stop the influence of North Korea.
Based on the videos we watched, how has Cuba being communist effected them to this day?
Cuba has been stuck in the past for many years. Being only able to try with other communist countries has kept them behind in technological advances and much of their country is similar to the 60s or 70s.
This is what the U.S.S.R. stands for and their symbol.
What is The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and a sickle and hammer?