End of WW2
Beginning of Cold War
Cold War Events
Doomsday Times
Vocabulary
End of Cold War
100
What was the surprise attack on the United States by Japan called?
Pearl Harbor
100
What is capitalism?
Free markets/private property
100
What event?
Korean War
100
Cuban Missile Crisis
5 seconds to 1 minute
100
Arms Race
A competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to build up huge stockpiles of powerful weapons, especially nuclear ones.
100
Who won the Cold War?
The United States, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
200
Why did the United States drop the Atomic Bombs?
Order of Importance:
1)End the war, save the invasion
2)Revenge for Pearl Harbor
200
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
200
This even took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Berlin Wall
Less or More than 15 minutes until midnight.
More
200
Containment
The U.S. plan to stop communism from spreading to other countries.
200
What was a main effect of the Cold War?
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
New period of tension
Creation of Russia
US being the sole superpower
300
What did D-Day accomplish? (2 answers)
Freed France opened the Western Front
300
What does this map show?
Partition of Germany
300
What was the Marshall Plan?
An economic aid program to help rebuild European countries after World War II
300
Sputnik (Increase or Decrease)
Increase (2-3)
300
glasnost
A Soviet plan that allowed people to speak more freely and share ideas.
300
Who? What did he do? 
Mao Zedong. China = Communist
400
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated and surprise invasion... the American people... will gain the inevitable triumph.”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt
What best describes the tone and purpose of this quote?
To rally Americans to support entering the war against Japan
400
Which statement best describes the policy of containment?
Stopping the spread of communism beyond where it already existed
400
What was the purpose of the SALT I Treaty?
To limit the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the USSR
400
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty -- Decrease or Increase?
Decrease (15-30)
400
“Iron Curtain”
A term used to describe the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe after World War II.
400
How did the policies of glasnost and perestroika contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
They encouraged more openness and economic restructuring, which exposed problems and led to demands for changeruman Doctrine
500
Event? 
Yalta Conference (Potsdam)
500
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
What was the INF treaty?
A treaty between the U.S. and Soviet Union to ban certain types of nuclear missiles
500
Increase or Decrease
Decrease (7-15)
500
Domino theory
The idea that if one country became communist, nearby countries would too—like falling dominoes.
500
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