Cold War 1 Quiz

Question 1

Define Cold War

Answer 1

A state of political hostility, characterized by threats, and propaganda.

Question 2

What was the Cold war?

Answer 2

America(capitalism) vs. Russia(communism)

Question 3

Define proxy war

Answer 3

started by a major power that does not itself become involved

Question 4

Cold way time frame

Answer 4

1945-1991

Question 5

Tension: 3 theories

Answer 5

1. Stalin is upset because America never helped the USSR in WWll.
2. Stalin learns that the US kept the A-bomb a secret. The soviet spies stole the blueprints for Russia and the US lied to their faces.
3. US and USSR have different gov/econ visions of Europe after WWll.

Question 6

Key players

Answer 6

Harry Truman(US)
Joseph Stalin(USSR)

Question 7

Wartime Conferences

Answer 7

Yalta(1945): USSR(shady election deal)
Potsdam(1945): Stalin knows about the A-bomb and Truman lies to his face when confronted.

Question 8

How Stalin rigs elections

Answer 8

• Jailed anti-Stalin critics
• Murdered anti-Stalin critics
• Bribed anti-Stalin critics

Question 9

Satellite Nations

Answer 9

AKA buffer zone
Border of countries under soviet control

Question 10

What was the name of the speech by Churchill

Answer 10

The iron curtain speech

Question 11

The goal of the UN

Answer 11

to resolve future wars

Question 12

The unintended consequences of the UN

Answer 12

1. US and USSR use the UN to spread their influence.
2. Countries are so weakened by WW2 that they think they must choose between US and USSR.

Question 13

What does the UN become

Answer 13

a battle ground

Question 14

Resistance: Truman Doctrine

Answer 14

• Containment: stop the spread of communism
• We bribe Greece and Turkey with $400 million in econ/military aid in return for them to not choose communism.

Question 15

Who were the 2 USSR spies executed and who was executed first?

Answer 15

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius was first.