Causes
Early Cold War Conflicts
Hot Spots
Fall of the USSR
100
What is this metaphorical border called?
The Iron Curtain
100
What happened to Germany directly after the end of WWII?
It was split up between the Allies and the Soviet Union.
100
Why was the Cold War called the Cold War?
The Soviet Union and the United States never directly attacked each other.
100
What does Glasnost mean?
Bonus 100 - Who implemented glasnost into the government?
"openness"
Gorbachev!
200
What did Stalin promise at the Yalta Conference?
Bonus: 100 - Did he follow through with his promise?
Stalin promised that he would allow Eastern European countries to hold fair and free elections.
Bonus: He did not follow through. He put in Communist governments in all the Eastern European countries.
200
What was the Marshall Plan?
The U.S. sent money to war-ravaged European countries to rebuild their economies, so people wouldn't turn to communism.
200
List 3 major hot spots of the Cold War.
Korea
Cuba
Vietnam
Afghanistan
200
What did Gorbachev allow satellite nations to do that caused them to break away?
He gave them sovereignty -- the right to choose their own government. They chose to leave the USSR.
300
This Russian alliance promised that all the countries involved would protect each other, especially the USSR, if any one of them was attacked.
The Warsaw Pact
300
Why were the Hungarian Revolt (1956) and the Czechoslovakian Refoorms (1964) not successful?
The USSR was determined to maintain political control over Eastern Europe at that time, and crushed the resistance
300
The U.S. was particularly terrified of THIS nation becoming communist, because of its geographical location.
Cuba, due to the Cuban missile crisis.
300
Ronald Reagan, the president of the US, once gave a speech in 1989, and famously stated, "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
What wall was he talking about?
The Berlin Wall.
400
Name and explain this MAJOR American foreign policy during the Cold War.
Hint: starts with a "c"
CONTAINMENT
the goal was to "contain" communism and stop it from spreading further into the rest of the world.
400
Why did the USSR build the Berlin Wall?
They wanted to stop East Germans from moving to West Germany, and keep the young talent in East Germany.
400
Conflict occurred when one side tried to expand its sphere of influence into another country or region. This is called WHAT?
Proxy Wars
400
What event is being shown in this cartoon?
The fall of the Berlin Wall
500
What was the arms race between the U.S and the U.S.S.R?
Bonus (100): Why was it so dangerous?
The arms race was a race to build stronger, deadlier weapons and technology.
Bonus: It was dangerous because it put the whole WORLD at risk.
500
Explain the domino theory.
The domino theory was America's fear that if one country in the world fell to communism, other countries would soon follow. Because of this, they kept getting involved in wars to stop communist governments from coming into power.
500
The Soviet-Afghan war helped contribute to the fall of the Soviet Union. How?
The USSR drained a lot of its resources and money into fighting the mujahideen (and the Americans) in Afghanistan. This weakened the population and the economy back home.
500
Why is Gorbachev held responsible for ending the Soviet Union?
His reforms, instead of making the Soviet Union's communism more efficient, caused every Soviet republic and satellite to break away. Communism lost mostly all its power.