Cold War 1
How did the Korean War end?
Split into two parts, North Korea & South Korea.
Alliance of Western Countries formed during the cold war, after WWII
NATO
The country that was trying to stop the spread of communism.
What is the U.S.?
The communist country that U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?
What was the Cuban missile crisis?
USSR trying to put missiles on Cuba, which is close to the USA.
Boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
A type of war fought between smaller countries that each are supported by other larger powers is called?
A proxy war.
This war ended in a stalemate. (neither side won)
The Korean War
Name a country that was part of the USSR (other than Russia!)
Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kygrystan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Which super power supported North Korea in the Korean War?
USSR (and China)
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Who was the first man in space? What country was he from?
Yuri Gagarin. Soviet Union.
This European country occupied Vietnam for decades and tried to regain control of this country after WWII.
France
U.S. pilots carried thousands of tons of supplies to the people of West Berlin for 10 months.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
How did the Vietnam War end?
What is North Vietnam won the war, and the Peninsula was united under communism?
This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.
Germany
Who was U.S.A's first man on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
What is Detente and which President led this period during the Cold War?
How did Canada help defend the US during the Cold War?
What is the D.E.W. line/ NORAD agreement/ Founding member of NATO/ Peacekeepers?
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
Containment
Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam?
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Which 4 countries are still communist today?
China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam
Year that the Soviet Union was dissolved
1991
What was the name of the armed communist political revolutionary organization in South Vietnam that participated in guerrilla warfare?
What is the Viet Cong?