Vocabulary
A change in direction.
Shift.
What is the Cold War?
Cold War is known as the indirect conflict that confronted the United States and the Soviet Union during the second half of the 20th century (1947-1991).
What year was the Berlin Wall built?
August 13, 1961.
The missile crisis was one of the greatest risks between the two powers during the Cold War.
a) True b) False
a) True.
One of the organisms of the ONU is:
The assembly ____.
a) General b) Security c) Legislative
A group of nations with a common purpose.
Bloc.
What was the main consequence of the dissolution in 1991?
The predominance of the United States as the only world power.
What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
In practice, the wall served to prevent mass emigration from East Germany and the communist bloc to the West after World War II.
Czechoslovakia was divided into two new nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
a) True b) False
a) True
Soviets took missiles to ___, the US manages to remove them. This tension almost caused a Third World War.
a) Venezuela b) Cuba c) Colombia
b) Cuba.
The actual purchasing power of income.
Real wages.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
Was the leader of the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
What was the Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union, officially called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a Marxist-Leninist republic that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
The Berlin Wall fell on December 11, 1989.
a) True b) False
b) False.
The Berlin Wall fell on the night of Thursday, November 9, 1989, to Friday, November 10, 1989.
Seeing the fall of Berlin's _____, one can also see the fall of communist ideals, which cement the domination of capitalism.
a) Country b) Government c) Wall
c) Wall.
The process of eliminating Stalin's more ruthless policies.
De-Stalinization.
What generated the war?
A constant tension that felt globally.
Who was Lósif Stalin?
He was a Soviet dictator, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and president of the Council of Ministers of the Union.
One of the main reasons for the Marshall Plan was that the United States did not suffer an economic depression.
a) True b) False
a) True.
'' Communist '' is a person who believes in a system where each individual is ____ or ____ to the other.
a) Equal b) Different c) Equitable
a) Equal.
c) Equitable.
A state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services such as health care.
Welfare state.
That they had both powers?
Nuclear weapons, creating fear of a nuclear conflict. The weaponry was used to deter the enemy.
What is the meaning of USSR?
USSR is the acronym that identifies the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, immense region that under communist ideology.
Otan, was created in 1951.
a) True b) False
b) False.
Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty, was gesture in 1949. A purely defensive agreement.
"'Capitalist'' a person who believes in a ____.
a) Free market b) Totalitarian government
a) Free market.