Origins of the Cold War
The Cold War was a clash between these two ideologies
What is Communism and Capitalism?
The first nation to make it to the moon
What is the United States?
This communist nation invaded South Korea in 1950
What is North Korea?
The closest the world ever came to nuclear war was when the Soviet Union placed missiles in this Caribbean nation.
What is Cuba?
In 1989, this physical symbol of the “Iron Curtain” between East and West fell.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The two Japanese cities that had atomic bombs dropped on them
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The military alliance including the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, and others.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The first U.S. president to visit China.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This country seized control of the Suez Canal in 1956.
What is Egypt?
This U.S. president demanded at the Berlin Wall: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This British politician coined the term “Iron Curtain”
Who is Winston Churchill?
The year the Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb
What is 1949?
This war in Southeast Asia is an example of the United States trying to contain Communism.
What is the Vietnam War?
Algeria gained independence from this nation.
What is France?
The relaxing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1970s.
What is Detente?
The U.S. Secretary of State whose plan gave billions of dollars in aid to Western Europe
Who is George Marshall?
NATO is short for this.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
In 1989, students pushed for democracy in this Chinese square.
What is Tiananmen Square?
The United States attempted to assassinate this Communist leader over 600 times.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of “openness”
What is glasnost?
The new British Prime Minister who replaced Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference
Who is Clement Attlee?
The name of the first artificial satellite put into space
What is Sputnik?
The leader of Khmer Rouge
Who is Pol Pot?
The United States supported the overthrow of this Chilean leader in 1973.
Who is Salvador Allende?
Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of “restructuring”
What is perestroika?