Cold War Context
What were the two main superpowers involved in the Cold War?
A: What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
In what year was the Berlin Wall built?
What is 1961?
Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a 1946 speech?
Who is Winston Churchill?
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Berlin Wall’s construction.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall
What is the Cold War?
This ideological conflict was at the heart of the Cold War?
What is capitalism vs. communism?
The Berlin Wall physically separated these two parts of Berlin.
What are East Berlin and West Berlin?
The Iron Curtain divided Europe into these two types of political systems.
What are democratic/capitalist and communist?
U.S. president who gave the “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The wall's fall symbolized the end of this decades-long conflict.
What is the Cold War?
The military alliance formed in 1949 to counter Soviet power in Europe.
NATO
The wall was constructed by this country.
What is East Germany (GDR)?
The Iron Curtain wasn't a literal wall — it symbolized this.
What is the division between Western and Eastern Europe?
This East German leader ordered the wall's construction.
Who is Walter Ulbricht?
Massive protests in this East German city pressured the regime.
What is Leipzig?
This Soviet-led alliance was the communist response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What was the official reason East Germany gave for building the wall?
What is to prevent Western "fascists" from entering East Germany?
Name one Eastern European country behind the Iron Curtain.
What is Poland, Hungary, East Germany, etc.?
U.S. president who said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
What event led to the accidental opening of the Berlin Wall?
What is a mistaken announcement during a press conference?
Name the 1947 U.S. policy to contain communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This many major checkpoints existed at the Wall — including the famous “Checkpoint Charlie.”
What is three?
This conference led to post-WWII division of Germany and Berlin.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Soviet leader who introduced reforms like glasnost and perestroika.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Germany was officially reunified in this year.
What is 1990?