Leaders
The dictator of the Soviet Union who believed that he should control a majority of Europe after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
After World War II, this country and its capital was divided between 4 occupation zones
What is Germany. UK, France, US and USSR had occupation zones. Berlin was divided the same way though located within East Germany.
Great Britain's prime minister who coined the phrase "Iron Curtain".
Who is Winston Churchill
An organization set up for nations to trade peacefully with one another and to help stop the spread of communism throughout the world and that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? Founding Members Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and the United States.
After a blockade blocked access to this city, a massive airlift was organized to feed and supply it in 1948.
What is Berlin/Berlin Airlift Significance: Western support for allies. Prevent Soviet expansion. Non-violent methods.
What is the economic system that is based on private ownership of property & competition between businesses is driven by the needs of the market, consumers & producers?
What is Capitalism?
This term characterizes an important social change that happened in Canada following WWII as soldiers began returning home.
What is the Baby Boom?
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Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.
Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Lester B Johnson, Nixon, Reagan?
What was the organization created by Communist nations in response to NATO (NATO formed to protect countries in North America and Western Europe)?
What is the Warsaw Pact: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist The war fought over the spread of communism. U.S. leaders thought that the Soviet Union had helped plan the attack. 25000 Canadian troops were sent and it often called the forgotten war.
What is the Korean War?
Name 2 countries that are still communist (to some degree) today.
China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam
The development of malls and the spread of consumerism was encouraged by the introduction of this product and this form of urban planning
What is cars and suburbanization? Significance: Determined the form of our cities up to the present day.
This Canadian Prime Minister received a Nobel Peace Prize for there significance of the Suez Crisis: Canada's role as a middle power. De-escalated a potential war.
Who is Lester B Pearson?
This was a system is a binational military command responsible for aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning.
What is NORAD? The North American Aerospace Defense Command
This was the term given when the US and the Soviet Union competed to stockpile the largest amount of nuclear weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighboring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory or Domino Effect?
The time period when fighting was done by using money and words instead of guns and soldiers.
What is the Cold War
Name the generally accepted years for the start and end of the Cold War?
(Range: ± 3 years)
What is 1945 - 1991?
The Soviet leader who helped Fidel Castro set up a communist government in Cuba and ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada.
What is the DEW (Distant Early Warning Line) Significance: US-CAN cooperation. Prevent Missile attack.
The U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, but failed. This conflict started as a civil war between the north and the south. And it was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists. The war that was not supported by many Americans. Many Americans started demonstrations and protests for the soldiers to be brought back home.
What is the Vietnam War?
A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
What is totalitarianism
The Long term U.S. foreign policy designed to stop the spread of communism
What is containment?