Cold War Competition
Draw a picture of the division of Germany and correctly label it.
1/4 = USA
1/4 = FRANCE
1/4 = ENGLAND
1/4 = USSR
Explain communism
a system where everyone is equal
Explain the Berlin Crisis
When Stalin cuts off all roads leading into West Berlin
Name four (4) satellite states
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany
What is a satellite state?
Why are they useful?
a country that was (forcibly) taken over by the USSR and used to keep a buffer zone between the USSR and the capitalist European countries.
Which country was the first to win the Space Race?
How?
USSR
Sent the first satellite into space and the first man into space.
explain capitalism
a system where individuals own private businesses
a system where there is social inequality
a system of wage inequality
Give the 5 Ws of the Hungarian Uprising
Who:
What:
When: 1956
Where:
Why:
Explain the domino theory
What was the Berlin Airlift? Was it successful? Why/why not?
USA and allies flew over West Berlin and dropped supplies + food.
Is successful because it forces Stalin to stop the blockade.
Explain the difference between NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Give three (3) countries that belonged to each alliance
NATO = Alliance between the capitalist powers and USA (insisted that if one of them was attacked, they would all jump in to defend each other)
-France, England, West Germany
Warsaw Pact = Same but with USSR and satellite states
-Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Cuba
Explain the Truman Doctrine
Harry S. Truman (USA President) says that communism and the USSR are fundamentally opposed to the interests of the USA and that the USSR and USA are no longer allies (friends).
What happened at the Gulf of Tonkin?
An American spy ship was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin and this led to the president being able to convince the Congress (American version of Parliament) that the USA needed to officially declare war on Vietnam.
Name one thing that happened at each of the following conferences:
Yalta
Tehran
Potsdam
The Teheran Conference Decisions were made about the war with Germany (WW2)…. USA & Britain would open up a second front by invading France in May 1944 (France was occupied by the Nazis) USSR would help the USA fight Japan after the Germans had been defeated.
Yalta = Germany would be divided into 4 zones (British, French, American and Soviet)
Potsdam = Germany would pay high reparations to the USSR
Name the 4 main leaders of the Soviet Union we have learned about, in correct order.
Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev
Explain detente and give two agreements that followed because of it.
detente = slowing down
attempt for the USSR and USA to get along and try to maintain peace.
SALT 1, SALT 2, Helsinki Agreement
What is the Marshall Plan?
Economic plan for the USA to pledge money to countries fighting the USSR and resisting communism.
The Bay of Pigs = USA trained Cuban exiles (gave them military training and weapons) and asked them to go and fight Castro - the plan was found out and Castro met them on the beach - many of them died or were taken prisoner.
Cuban Missile Crisis = USSR put missiles in Cuba and the USA found out - retaliated by putting missiles in Turkey - this was the closest the world had ever gotten to Nuclear Warfare = eventually was de-escalated.
Explain what happened in Afghanistan using the 5 Ws.
Who, what, when, where, why.
Who:
What:
When: 1979
Where:
Why:
Explain the Vietnam War using the 5Ws
Who:
What:
When: 1955 - 1975
Where:
Why:
What is an ICBM? Why is it significant?
Intercontinental ballistic missile (used to deliver nuclear weapons)
-were the missiles banned/attempted to ban during SALT 1 and SALT 2
Explain cominform and comecon
Comecon = economic support and alliance with the Soviet Union (allowing trade with only the Soviet Union and amongst satellite states.
Explain the Prague Spring using the 5Ws
Who:
What:
When: 1968
Where:
Why:
Explain three (3) ways the Cold War ends
Include dates and names of specific leaders
Gorbachev and Reagan
1991
-Berlin Wall comes down
-Satellite states are "freed"
-Soviet Union = glasnost and perestroika = adopting some capitalist ideals
Some argue that the Cold War has lasting effects on the world today.
List five (5) ways that the Cold War has impacted (affected) our lives today.
1. Threat of Nuclear War is still present
2. Proliferation (spread) of nuclear weapons to hostile nations
3. Russia and USA tensions persist
4. Satellite states / proxy war states still in turmoil
5.