Superpowers and Alliances
The two main superpowers during the Cold War were the United States and which other country
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
Communism promotes shared ownership of property, while capitalism promotes this.
What is private ownership?
This war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
This wall fell in 1989, symbolising the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Asian nation gained independence from Britain in 1947, led by Mahatma Gandhi.
What is India?
This alliance was formed by Western nations in 1949 to defend against communism.
What is NATO?
The U.S. offered financial aid to rebuild Europe and stop communism through this plan.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This wall, built in 1961, divided a city and became a symbol of the Cold War
What is the Berlin Wall?
The Cold War officially ended when this country dissolved in 1991.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
Papua New Guinea gained independence from which country in 1975?
What is Australia?
The Soviet Union created this military alliance in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This early Cold War crisis began when the Soviets blocked all access routes into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
The failed 1961 invasion of Cuba supported by the U.S. to overthrow Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This Cambodian communist leader ruled during a brutal genocide from 1975–1979.
Who is Pol Pot? (or Saloth Sar)
This term, used by Winston Churchill, described the divide between communist and capitalist Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This American policy aimed to stop the spread of communism worldwide.
What is containment policy?
This Cold War competition was about technological and space exploration superiority.
What is the Space Race?
The U.S. President who worked with Gorbachev to reduce nuclear weapons during the late 1980s.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
One major impact of decolonisation in Cambodia was the rise of this extreme regime.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
This 1947 U.S. policy promised to contain the spread of communism by supporting free nations economically.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This period of rapid military competition between the U.S. and USSR involved building up atomic weapons.
What is a proxy war?
This period of rapid military competition between the U.S. and USSR involved building up atomic weapons.
What is the nuclear arms race?
During the late 1980s, people in this Baltic nation gathered in massive crowds to sing banned national songs, helping to peacefully win independence from the Soviet Union.
What is Estonia?
This Portuguese colony in Africa fought a long liberation war before finally gaining independence in 1975.
What is Mozambique?