Cold War Basics 1
This country wanted to stop the spread of Communism.
What is the USA?
The organizations of allied countries of which the US belongs to. [You have to say what each letter stands for.]
What is the NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
`US and Allied airplanes delivered supplies to West Berlin everyday for 321 days due to the blockade. This operation is known as ...
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This country that eventually split into two after a four-year civil war is in this continent.
What is Asia?
This war is a prime example of how the Cold War turns into a violent one.
The Korean War
What were the two world superpowers during the Cold War?
What are the USA and USSR?
When Germany was divided after WW II, this city was divided also.
What is Berlin?
The length of the Berlin wall between East and West.
What is 103 miles?
This was the US President during the Korean war and he decided to send US forces to protect South Korea.
President Harry Truman.
A nation that was formally independent, but in fact dominated by and subservient to the Soviet Union. After World War II, many of the nations of Eastern Europe became Soviet satellites.
What is a Soviet satellite?
This is the term used to describe the closing off of the
Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Soviets did not like that the Allies controlled West Berlin. In June 1948 stopped all traffic and no food was allowed in. Even power supply was cut off. This event is called...
What is the Blockade of West Berlin?
This was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore space. Russia got off to a fast start by putting up the first satellite and the first manned flight into orbit. The United States, however, was the first to put a man on the Moon.
What is the Space Race?
This border divided Korea between North and South.
What is the 38th parallel?
What was the significance of 38 degrees north latitude?
A. It separated the free part of Korea from the part occupied by Japan.
B. It marked the point where American troops landed in Korea.
C It was the line that divided North Korea and South Korea.
What is C --- It was the line that divided North Korea and South Korea?
The cold war lasted for about this long.
A. about 65 years?
B. about 45 years?
C. about 100 years?
What is B - about 45 years?
This is the former name of Russia during its leadership in the Communist satellite countries.
What is the USSR?
The decades-long confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which lasted from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
What is the Cold War?
It is a border zone or barrier that divides the Korean peninsula roughly in half. It was established to serve as a buffer zone between the countries of North and South Korea.
What is the DMZ or the Korean Demilitarized Zone?
What did the Cold War have in common with the Korean War?
Both exhibited clear winners --- Communism. True or False.
What is False. Both where standoffs, with no clear victory.
Dividing Germany into West and East was at the heart of the Cold War. True or False?
What is True?
A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to manufacture the most nuclear weapons. They also tried to outdo each other in weapons technology and defense.
What is the Arms Race?
A social, political, and economic system in which property is owned collectively; there is no private property or private enterprise.
What is Communism?
An American foreign policy doctrine expressed by President Harry S. Truman in a famous 1947 speech. This doctrine defined the advance of communism anywhere in the world as a grave threat to the United States' national interest, and therefore pledged American support to foreign governments threatened by communist revolutions.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
An American foreign policy during the Cold War that sought to halt the spread of communism and the Soviet influence to countries which were not already communist.
What is Containment?