Origins of the cold war
Who were the United States and the Soviet Union?
The two main superpowers after WWII
Who was the Soviet leader at the start of the Cold War?
Joseph Stalin
What wall physically divided a European city from 1961 to 1989?
The Berlin Wall
Which war divided a peninsula in Asia into North and South?
The Korean War
What type of weapon could destroy entire cities and was central to Cold War fear?
Nuclear weapons
What term describes the growing tension between the US and USSR without direct fighting?
The Cold War
Which US president introduced the Marshall Plan?
Harry Truman
Which US plan provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe?
The Marshall Plan
Which Southeast Asian conflict saw heavy US involvement to stop communism?
The Vietnam War
What is the competition between the US and USSR to build more powerful weapons called?
The arms race
Which 1947 US policy provided aid to countries resisting communism?
The Truman Doctrine
Who gave the famous “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946?
Winston Churchill
What 1962 crisis almost brought the world to nuclear war?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
What is the term for wars where superpowers supported opposite sides without direct combat?
Proxy wars
What doctrine meant that nuclear war would destroy both superpowers if started?
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
Which conference divided Germany into occupation zones after WWII?
The Potsdam Conference
Which Soviet leader introduced reforms like glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Which 1948–1949 operation supplied West Berlin during a Soviet blockade?
The Berlin Airlift
Which country did the USSR invade in 1979, leading to a decade long conflict?
Afghanistan
Which US program in the 1980s aimed to defend against nuclear missiles with space based systems?
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
What 1950-1953 war was the first major armed conflict of the Cold War?
The Korean War
Who was the US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
Which continent experienced multiple Cold War related proxy conflicts, including Angola and Afghanistan?
Asia
Why did a nuclear war never happen during the Cold War?
Fear of total annihilation