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Cold War Timeline
Cold War Causes and Consequences
Cold War Big Ideas
Everything and Final Jeopardy
100
Label #1 is which country?
What is Korea?
100
This 1948-1949 operation involved the U.S. and allies flying supplies into a blockaded city.
What is Berlin Airlift?
100
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism without directly fighting the Soviet Union.
What is Containment?
100
These two superpowers led the opposing sides during the Cold War.
What were the United States and Soviet Union?
100
This Asian country was divided at the 38th parallel and became the site of a war from 1950-1953.
What is Korea?
200
Label #2 is which country?
What is Guatemala?
200
This doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide aid to countries threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine or Containment Doctrine?
200
The U.S. wanted to spread democracy and capitalism; the Soviet Union wanted to spread this economic and political system.
What is communism?
200
NATO and this Soviet-led alliance were the two major military pacts in Europe during the Cold War.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
200
This country in Southeast Asia became the site of America's longest and most controversial Cold War conflict.
What is Vietnam?
300
Label #2 is which country?
What is Vietnam?
300
This 1962 crisis brought the world closest to nuclear war when missiles were discovered 90 miles from Florida.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
In both Korea and Vietnam, the country was divided with communists in this direction and U.S.-backed governments in the opposite.
What is the North (U.S. in South)?
300
This term describes conflicts where the U.S. and Soviet Union supported opposite sides but never fought each other directly.
What is a proxy war?
300
The United States supported coups in Guatemala, Chile, and Iran over THESE 3 products
What are bananas, copper, and oil?
400
Label #3 is which country?
What is Cuba?
400
The Soviet Union invaded this Middle Eastern country in 1979, leading to a decade-long conflict.
What was Afghanistan?
400
The U.S. failed to contain communism in Vietnam partly because the war became very unpopular at home and the communists had THIS from local people.
What was public SUPPORT?
400
The U.S. and Soviet Union avoided direct military confrontation because both had these devastating weapons.
What are nuclear weapons?
Double Points: What does M.A.D. stand for?
400
The first successful coup of the Cold War done by the CIA was in THIS country.
What was Iran?
500
Label #6
What is the Soviet Union?
500
This symbolic structure fell in 1989, marking the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
What was the Berlin Wall?
500
The U.S. supported coups in Latin America and the Middle East mainly to stop the spread of communism and protect THESE American interests.
What was business interests? $$$$$
500
One lesson from U.S. interventions in places like Vietnam, Guatemala, and Chile is that supporting coups or getting involved in other countries' conflicts can lead to these kinds of unintended problems.
What is long-term destabilization problems?
500
FINAL JEOPARDY: The Cold War ended in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, not because it was defeated militarily, but because it could not do THIS.
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