Cold War Alliances 1
Berlin Airlift 1
Cold War Alliances 2
Berlin Airlift 2
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100

This military alliance was formed in 1949 to counter the threat of Soviet expansion in Europe.

NATO

100

The Berlin Airlift began in 1948 after this country blocked all land access to West Berlin.

Soviet Union

100

This Cold War alliance included democratic nations committed to collective defense under Article 5.

NATO

100

The Berlin Airlift began after this German city was divided into zones controlled by the Allies.

Berlin

100

This is the longest river in the United States, flowing through 10 states from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Mississippi River

200

This alliance was the Soviet Union's response to NATO, formed in 1955.

Warsaw Pact

200

The U.S. and its allies used this method to supply West Berlin during the Soviet blockade.

Airlift

200

This country left NATO’s military command in 1966 under Charles de Gaulle but remained a political member.

France

200

The British and American forces dropped over 2 million of these into Berlin during the airlift

Supplies

200

This U.S. president signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free

Abraham Lincoln

300

Countries like the U.S., U.K., France, and West Germany were part of this Cold War alliance.

NATO

300

The Berlin Airlift lasted for approximately this many months.

15 months

300

his neutral country in Europe refused to join either NATO or the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War.

Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Austria 

300

Children in Berlin nicknamed U.S. pilot Gail Halvorsen this because he dropped candy from his plane

Candy Bomber

300

This document, ratified in 1787, established the framework for the U.S. government and is still in use today.  

U.S. Constitution

400

This country was a founding member of the Warsaw Pact and later split into two nations in 1993.

Czechoslovakia?

400

This U.S. President ordered the airlift to support West Berlin.

President Harry S. Truman

400

Though officially non-aligned, this Asian nation received military aid from both the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

India

400

This general, who later became a U.S. president, was in charge of overseeing the Berlin Airlift operations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

400

This event, held in Philadelphia in 1776, led to the formal declaration of the United States' independence from Britain.

Second Continental Congress

500

This continent had the most Non-Aligned countries during the Cold War.

Africa

500

At its peak, planes were landing in West Berlin as often as once every?

30 seconds

500

Define the phrase "iron curtain"  

The imaginary line dividing Europe between Soviet influence and Western influence  

500

The Soviet blockade of Berlin officially ended in this month and year.

May 1949

500

In 1954, this landmark Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional, leading to the desegregation of schools.

Brown v. Board of Education