Beginnings 1
Why is the cold war 'cold'?
Because there was no actual fighting.
Communist countries generally have no freedom of the press or freedom of speech. True or False?
True
Who invaded first: North or South Korea?
North Korea!
Free space! The team that chose this gets 100 free points!
Yay!
Why did actors in older movies sound different than most Americans do today?
They used an accent called the Mid-Atlantic accent!
Name the event where the US and other western countries dropped supplies from planes into Soviet controlled East Berlin.
The Berlin Airlift!
What is the name of the policy in which western countries tried to stop the spread of Communism?
Containment
Who is considered the winner of the Korean War?
There was no winner!
Who was the leader of the Nationalists Party during much the Chinese Civil War?
Mao Zedong
What did Winston Churchill describe the barrier between the Soviet Union and Western Europe as?
The Iron Curtain
What word/phrase fits the following definition?
Countries clustered around a more powerful nation that controlled them.
Satellite countries.
What word/phrase fits the following definition?
The unspoken agreement not to go to war, as both sides can destroy the other.
Mutually Assured Destruction
What was used as the border between North Korea and South Korea?
38th Parallel
After the Chinese Civil War, what became the official name for China?
The People's Republic of China.
Name the plan created by the US that promised to send money to certain countries to help fight off Communism.
The Marshall Plan
The United Nations was based on what other organization that was created and failed after WW1?
The League of Nations
Who was considered the 'architect' of the containment policy?
George Kennan
What country entered the side of North Korea and changed the course of the war?
China
What is another name for the Chinese Nationalist Party?
Kuomintang
Who is considered the Father of Communism?
Karl Marx
The United Nations was made of two main groups. What are they?
The General Assembly and the Security Council
What does NATO stand for?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
What did President Truman believe would occur if they did not support South Korea during the war?
More countries would fall to Communism.
What started the Chinese Civil War?
When Chiang Kai-shek tried to kill or imprison the communists in the government.
Who were the Big Three that met at the Yalta Conference?
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin