Asia
False
What was the iron curtain?
Invisible line that separated communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe?
True or False: Americans troops fought under the US flag and name during the Vietnam War
False, they fought under the United Nations
Explain the Cold War
The Cold War was a period of tension between the US and Soviet Union from WWII to the fall of communism
What type of government is run by the people?
Democracy
Who won the Korean War?
Nobody, An armistice was agreed to at 38th parallel
What country was West Berlin part of?
West Germany
What is Proxy War?
When countries fight in a war between two external countries, interfering in their affair to assert victory
What was the primary cause of the Cold War?
Competition for political influence in foreign nations
NATO, North American Trade Organization
During the Korean War what prevented South Korea from falling to the invading North Koreans?
US Force involvement under command of the UN
What countries occupied the city of Berlin?
UK, US, USSR, France
What event nearly started fighting in the Cold War?
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin
Cuban Missile Crisis
True or False: The Cold War was a real war
False
Who were the leaders of the Soviet Union?
Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev
US involvement in Vietnam was a result of what policy?
Containment
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Supplying necessities to blockaded West Berlin
Who was the US Senator who hunted communists?
Joseph McCarthy
Who were the American and Soviet leaders during the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
Which of these describes communism?
Everyone gets an equal vote
Government owns and distributes health/resources
Government takes everybody’s money and invests it
Thinking your country is better than all others
Government owns and distributes heath/resources
Which of these were a cause of the Cold War?
NATO forces blocked shops from sailing to North Korea
The US allowed guerillas to invade South Korea
North Korea invaded South under Soviet approval
Riots forced North Korea to instigate war
North Korea invaded South under Soviet approval
What was an early goal of the Soviets in the Cold War?
Create a defensive buffer zone in East Europe
Who were the US Cold War presidents?
Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon
How long was the Cold War?
40 Years
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Policy of giving aid to nations threatened by communism