Facts
Which countries met at Yalta after WW2 (Winning sides)
USA, Great Britain (England) and USSR
What is NATO?
The countries in an alliance with the USA during the cold war
What is Capitalism?
The idea that each person / business is free to do what they want without the government bossing them around
What is the Nuclear race?
The USA and USSR racing to build more nuclear weapons
Which country was Stalin the leader of?
Soviet Union / USSR
Which side did the USA support in the Vietnam war?
The South
What is communism?
The idea that the government controls everything and there are no free / independent businesses
What was the Manhattan Project?
Where they built and designed the nuclear weapons
Which event describes when the US and USSR almost went to nuclear war because of missiles in an island near the USA?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Which side was communist in the vietnam war?
The North
Who gave the "Iron Curtain" Speech, explaining that the USSR was dominating / opressing other countries in an "iron curtain"
Winston Churchill
What was the Marhsall Plan?
A plan for the USA give $ and help to Europe to make sure they were allied with the USA and not the USSR
What prevented the world from going to nuclear war in the Russian submarine in 1962?
2/3 Russians wanted to launch their nuclear torpedoes but 1 said no
What is the Warsaw Pact
The countries that had an alliance with the USSR (the alliance was forced, Russia made them be communist and be allies)
What were the two main economic ideas in the Cold War?
Capitalism - USA
The idea that both the USA and USSR have enough nuclear bombs to destroy each other so neither should attack
Which city is the only place where a nuclear bomb has been dropped during wartime? (Japan)
Hiroshima
A metaphorical clock that represents the end of the world at midnight
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The USA and England flew airplanes over Germany and dropped supplies to parts of Germany being opressed by the USSR
What year did the Soviet Union test their first atomic bomb? (closest gets it)
1949