Cold War Jeopardy

Conflicts

100

What was the time span of the Cold War?

What is 1945-1991?

200

What are 2 countries that turn communist during the Cold War?

China, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam

300

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.

400

How was Germany & Berlin divided after WW2? Why?

France, Great Britain, US = democratic parts

USSR = communist parts

500

Explain why the Korean War occurred IN DETAIL. What was the result of the War?

divided at 38th parallel

North: communist, backed by USSR and China

South: democratic, backed by US and UN

Stalemate: no true winner/changes

Conflicts Cont.

100

Explain the difference in economic systems between USSR and US.

US: capitalism (freedoms, choices, profits, social classes, individual controlled)

USSR: communism (censorship, propaganda, limited rights, no classes, government controlled)

200

We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.

Who are the Rosenbergs?

300

What does perestroika and glasnost mean?

AKA List 3 reforms of USSR

Perestroika (restructuring) & glasnost (openness)

Private enterprise/ownership, Cut military spending, Decentralized economy, Foreign trading, Democratic elections, Local governments, individual freedoms

400

Name four countries that were created after the collapse of the USSR.

1. Armenia

2. Azerbaijan

3. Belarus

4. Estonia

5. Georgia

6. Kazakhstan

7. Kyrgyzstan

8. Latvia

9. Lithuania

10. Moldova

11. Russia

12. Tajikistan

13. Turkmenistan

14. Ukraine

15. Uzbekistan

500

What was significant about the election of 1960 compared to the previous elections?

First time debate was on TV

Kennedy: in blue suit, make-up on, poised/collected

Nixon: pale, sweaty, washed out, shifty

Arms & Space Race

100

The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union while spying.

What is U-2?

200

Who was the first person in space?

Yuri Gagarin 

300

Name 2 of the 3 astronauts for the US that went to the moon?

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins

400

Explain who won the space race.

USSR = first satellite, animal, person

US = man on moon

500

How did the arms race change from the beginning of the Cold War to the end of the Cold War

Beginning = building up nuclear weapons and testing them

Ending = creating treaties and alliances to not blow up world

Containment

100

The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this

What is Containment?

200

What was the Iron Curtain?

An imaginary line dividing Communist countries and democratic countries (Winston Churchill)

300

What was the domino theory?

If one county falls to communism, they all fall.

400

US provided aid (food and industrial goods) to 16 western European countries. Great Britain received the most aid

What is the Marshall Plan?

500

This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947. Gave money to Greece and Turkey specifically

What is the Truman Doctrine?

Organizations

100

The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.

What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?

200

Organization of democratic countries created in 1949

What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

300

The international organization who focus on international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Created at the end of WW2

What is the United Nations (UN)?

400

Soviet Union created this in 1955 as a response to NATO.

What is Warsaw Pact?

500

Explain Joseph McCarthy, what he did, and his ultimate decline.

Hunted Communists in the US government and military, could never prove that these people were Communist, TV + fact checking led to his down fall