Cold War

Question 1

Yalta conference

Answer 1

Conference with Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin in 1945

Question 2

Iron Curtain

Answer 2

Divide east and west Germany (east being USSR and west being USA)

Question 3

Superpowers

Answer 3

USSR and USA

Question 4

Containment

Answer 4

Blocking of Soviet influence in preventing the expansion of communism

Question 5

Truman doctrine

Answer 5

Congress authorized 400 million to aid Greece and turkey

Question 6

Marshall plan

Answer 6

George Marshall said that the US should give aid to any European nations-Congress authorized $12.5 billion after USSR seized Czechoslovakia

Question 7

Berlin Airlift

Answer 7

Stolen seized Soviet controlled portion of Berlin cut off all the highway, water, and rail lines to story about the city

Question 8

NATO

Answer 8

North Atlantic treaty organization, created with tenured pi nations Canada and the US as a defensive military

Question 9

Warsaw Pact

Answer 9

USSR created because they saw NATO as a threat USSR in Poland and east Germany Czechoslovakia hungry Romania and Bulgaria and Albania

Question 10

Brinkmanship

Answer 10

Willing us to go to the brank/edge of war

Question 11

U-2incident

Answer 11

Shooting down a US spy plane in capture of a pilot Gary Powers by USSR

Question 12

Mao Zedong

Answer 12

Leader of red army

Question 13

Space race

Answer 13

Race between USSR in US to get a man to the moon

Question 14

United Nations

Answer 14

50 countries organize to protect members against aggression

Question 15

Jiang jieshi

Answer 15

Leader of the nationalist forces

Question 16

Sputnik one

Answer 16

So it you can put the first on man satellite in space

Question 17

Yuri Garin

Answer 17

Astronaut in Russia – first human in space/orbit around earth

Question 18

Alan Shepard

Answer 18

First Americans travel to space

Question 19

Dalai Lama

Answer 19

Living Buddha – responsible for governing Tibet before China took it over

Question 20

Communes

Answer 20

Large collective farms

Question 21

Cultural revolution

Answer 21

Go to establish a society of peasants and workers that are all equal

Question 22

38th parallel

Answer 22

Latitude line across is Korea in separates north and South Korea

Question 23

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 23

Leader of the United Nations forces into stopped it so we invasion of Korea

Question 24

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 24

Leader of communist forces in Vietnam

Question 25

Sandinistas

Answer 25

Who the USSR supported in the Nicaragua war Civil War

Question 26

Daniel Ortega

Answer 26

Leader of the Sandinistas

Question 27

Iran’s shah

Answer 27

Iran’s leader

Question 28

Ayatollah Khomeini

Answer 28

Hated the USA

Question 29

Mujahideen

Answer 29

Afghan rebels supplied with American weapons/holy Warriors

Question 30

Desalinization 

Answer 30

Removing the memory of Joseph Stalin from the Soviet union

Question 31

Leonid Brezhnev 

Answer 31

 replaced Khrushchev, quickly adopted repressive domestic

Question 32

LBJ

Answer 32

Escalated US involvement in Vietnam War took over presidency when JFK died

Question 33

detente

Answer 33

US policy of listening Cold War tension under rich Nixon

Question 34

Tricky dick

Answer 34

President Richard Nixon’s nickname

Question 35

SALT

Answer 35

Strategic arms limitation treaty

Question 36

Regan

Answer 36

President – abandon the Détente since he was a strong anti-communist

Question 37

Star Wars missile defense system

Answer 37

Protect US from enemy missiles – we thought we had tech from Star Wars to protect us but we didn’t

Question 38

Dominoes Theory

Answer 38

President Eisenhower – said if one nation fall to communism the neighbors will fall to the mall

Question 39

Ngo Dinh diem

Answer 39

South Vietnamese leader of the anti-communist who were supported by both the French and the US

Question 40

Viet Cong

Answer 40

Communist guerrillas; many Vietcong were South Vietnamese who hated Ngo dinh Diem

Question 41

Vietnamization

Answer 41

Allowed US troops to gradually pull out

Question 42

Khmer rouge

Answer 42

Communist rebels, set up brutal communist government under the leadership of pol pot

Question 43

Pol pot

Answer 43

Political leader – communist Khmer Rouge Cambodia 

Question 44

Third World

Answer 44

Not with the United States or USSR and poor

Question 45

Nonaligned nations

Answer 45

Independent countries (Switzerland)

Question 46

Fidel Castro

Answer 46

Young lawyer, led to the Cuban revolution

Question 47

Nikita Khrushchev 

Answer 47

Becomes a leader of Soviet Union after stolen dies in 1953

Question 48

JFK

Answer 48

1962 presidents assassinated in 1963

Question 49

Why were the Soviets fighting the mujahideen in Afghanistan

Answer 49

To force Soviet style socialism on Afghanistan

Question 50

What are the idea of Detente eventually fail

Answer 50

The US congress refused to sign SALT ll 

Question 51

Explain what to events trigger the breakdown of brinkmanship 

Answer 51

1. U-2 spy plane incident 2. Cuban muzzle crisis 3. Vietnam war 

Question 52

What was the main requirement for the United States to support a foreign leader 

Answer 52

Anti-communism

Question 53

How did the US respond to Castro’s receiving aid from the Soviets

Answer 53

CIA executed Bay of Pigs invasion – basically trying to overthrow Castro

Question 54

Explain why the Cuban missile crisis was something the US had act aggressively and quickly over

Answer 54

Nuclear war could’ve broken out, there were too many nukes at the Cuban border

Question 55

Has Castro’s agreement with the Soviets been positive or negative for Cuba

Answer 55

Negative because it completely trashed their economy

Question 56

What is the relief of Ayatollah khomeinis politics

Answer 56

Hates the USA

Question 57

What is a tension between China and India in the early 1960s

Answer 57

Can you give support to Tibetan people especially the Dalai Lama 

Question 58

What did the Algerian reform law of 1950 give Mao Zedong the power to do

Answer 58

Give him power to get back land peasants

Question 59

Why was Douglas MacArthur fired as leader of the United Nations forces in Korea

Answer 59

He was fired because he tried to go over president Truman’s head and went to Congress to try and use nuclear weapons

Question 60

Why did the US I have a difficult time in the Vietnam war

Answer 60

They fought an unfamiliar jungle terrain and South Vietnamese gov’t wasn’t popular

Question 61

Explain the difference between 1st worlds second world and Third World country

Answer 61

1st:us and it’s Allies 2nd-communist countries – USSR and their allies 3. Not allies with either poor

Question 62

Explain the origins of the Cold War from both perspectives (USA and ussr)

Answer 62

US: was upset about 1939 nonaggression pact between Germany and USSR USSR: upset about believing that the allies waited too long to invade France during World War II

Question 63

Name five permanent members of the original United Nations Security Council

Answer 63

- Great Britain - USA - France - Union of Soviet Socialist republics -  China

Question 64

What is Stalin to reply, “ capitalism and communism could not exist in the same world.”

Answer 64

Harry Truman pushed for the free elections in Eastern Europe

Question 65

Name at least two events with symbolize the United States theory of containment

Answer 65

1. Marshall plan 2. Truman doctrine 3. Berlin airlift

Question 66

Which countries benefited from the Truman doctrine

Answer 66

Greece and turkey

Question 67

What type of alliance was NATO

Answer 67

Defensive military alliance

Question 68

Who is Responsible for the idea of brinkmanship

Answer 68

John Foster Dulles