Cold War 1
When did was the Yalta conference take place?
1945 (Before / at the end of WWII)
What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba
Fidel Castro
Where North and South Korea agreed to split.
What is the 38th parallel?
This event took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This proxy war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting.
What is the Vietnam War?
What is Communism?
Political and Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
Russian alliance to resist American Military expansion into Eastern Europe?
Warsaw Pact 1955/In Response to Nato
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What side of the Berlin wall was communist?
What is East?
Disagreements over the future of this country’s capital city helps sparked early tensions
What is Berlin?
What was the Warsaw Pact?
The warsaw pact was a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries, primarily to counterbalance the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What is Berlin airlift / Berlin Blockade
(1948-1949) Western attempt to Keep West Berlin (Trizonia) & humanitarian effort to support a blockaded city Flights of 320 000 over a 11 months - from Bombs to chocolates
Who were the Leaders at Yalta
UK Churchill USSR Stalin USA Roosevelt
What is the Marshall plan?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII. $17 billion for European Reconstruction post WW2
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory or Domino Effect?
This 1948-1949 event saw the Soviet Union blockading West Berlin, leading to a massive airlift by the Western Allies.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Why did American involvement in Vietnam begin?
To contain communism, stop the North Vietcong, spread more democracy
U.S. and Soviet spheres of influence? Military Alliances
The formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
I will also accept SEATO
Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.
Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan?
US aeronautics program initiated by Reagan during the Cold War in order to compete with the USSR.
What is NASA?
First successful satellite in space.
What is Sputnik I?
What was the turning point in the Cold War that would have the USSR losing?
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
This US foreign policy doctrine, announced in 1947, pledged to support countries resisting communist pressure.
What is the Truman Doctrine
What was JFK's plan for the Space Race?
Win the Space Race
Man on the moon by the end of the decade
Focus on math and science within education
This Soviet leader during Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
Was the Bay of Pigs successful?
NO.
Proxy Wars examples you have studied
What is Vietnam and Korea
Which 3 countries supported West Germany?
France
Britain
United States