Roots of the Cold War
The two superpowers to come out of WWII.
The Soviet Union and the United States.
The main battleground of the Cold War (Where the first shots would have been fired), would have been.....
Germany or Berlin.
Who was the leader after China’s civil war had ended?
Mao Zedong
The race between the US and the Soviet Union to build powerful nuclear weapons.
The Arms Race.
The Eastern European countries under Soviet control were called...
Satellite States.
Which alliance of the Cold War was formed by the Soviet Union and the countries it contolled?
The Warsaw Pact.
What is the practice of going to the verge of war in order to win an advantage over a enemy?
Brinksmanship
The place at which the DMZ was installed in Korea, to separate North and South Korea. What does DMZ stands for?
The 38th Parallel.
Demilitarized Zone
What is the policy of lessening Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. called?
Détente
The division between Eastern and Western Europe was often called...
The Iron Curtain.
A doctrine that opposed the spread of Communism in European countries.
The Truman Doctrine.
Which country launched the first satellite into space? What was the name of the satellite?
Bonus points if you can give me the date:
Sputnik - USSR - October 4,1957
___________________ had been occupied by the French, gained independence under Communist leader, and turned into a communist country despite America's best efforts.
Who was the leader?
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow
Fidel Castro
What is a Domino theory?
The domino theory was a prominent geopolitical Cold War policy suggesting that if one nation fell to communism, its neighboring countries would inevitably follow, like a row of falling dominoes.
When the US dropped food and supplies to this struggling community during the Cold War...Why?
The Berlin Airlift.
The Allies combine their parts of Germany and Soviet Union didn't like it. Since it controlled the area around it, they blocked all the roads towards Berlin.
Who was the first communist leader of North Korea?
Kim Ill Sung
Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of unsuccessful economic reform in the Soviet Union was ___________.
And
What were Gorbachev's social reform that ended religious bans & censorship in the Soviet Union? _____________.
Perestroika
Glasnost