After WW2
Name 2 world leaders at the Yalta Conference in February 1945?
Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt
Who were the two leaders in the Chinese Civil War?
Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai Shek (Jiang Jieshi)
What were two proxy wars fought during the Cold War?
Vietnam War, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis
Which country was the first Eastern European nation to sponsor free elections in their country and become democratic?
Poland
What is the economic system that is based on private ownership of property and competition between businesses is driven by the needs of the market, consumers, and producers?
Capitalism
Name the generally accepted years for the start and end of the Cold War? (+/- 3 years)
1945-1991
What was the system of government that was adopted by the USSR after 1922 and resulted in complete control over the citizens of the Soviet Union and its satellite states?
A communist government --totalitarian dictatorship
What were the two sides of the Chinese Civil War?
Nationalists and the Communists
The name of the divide that split South and North Korea?
38th Parallel
Mikhail Gorbachev
NATO
What was the first animal sent into space OR the name of the animal.
Laika (Soviet dog)
What was the policy of sending economic aid to assist Europe after WW2?
The Marshall Plan
In what year did China became a Communist Nation?
1949
Which two leaders compromised at the last minute to prevent nuclear war in Cuba?
Khruschev and Kennedy
The policy of opening up society (e.g. allowing people to worship, speak out, etc) was called
glasnost
What was the phrase (metaphor) that Churchill used to refer to Eastern Europe being under control of the Soviet Union at the end of the war?
The Iron Curtain
The Soviet Union drops its first successful atomic bomb in what year?
1949
What was described as the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war called?
The arms race
One of Mao's economic policies that included collectivizing the land and creating huge industrial complexes was called the ....
Great Leap Forward
When anti Castro Cuban exiles tried to wage a coup against Castro by landing on the shores of Cuba, this was known as the
Bay of Pigs Incident
When Gorbachev decided to restructure the Soviet economy, this was known as
Perestroika
This is the main body of the United Nations which is made up of 193 member states.
The General Assembly
What was the event that saw the U.S and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city?
The Berlin Airlift
When Mao hired young kids to control the second phase of the communist revolution, they were called the ____ and the movement was called the _____
Red Guards/ Cultural Revolution
Who was the leader of Cuba in 1959 and what type of government did he lead?
Castro communist
In what year did the Soviet Union fall apart?
1991
This part of the United Nations is responsible for maintaining peace and tried to settle conflicts that threaten international security.
The Security Council
Who was the President of the U.S. at the end of World War 2?
Harry S. Truman
The Red Guards were forced to carry this in order to let people know that they were breaking the "Four Olds".
Mao's Little Red Book of sayings.
Why did the U.S. get involved in the Vietnam War?
Because they didn't want Vietnam to fall to Communism. They were fearful if Vietnam became communist, it would be like a row of dominoes...other countries surrounding it would follow.
What is the former Soviet Union known as today?
CIS or Commonwealth of Independent States.
This organization was created after World War 2 to replace the League of Nations
The United Nations