Cold War

Question 1

How was Cold War political?

Answer 1

Communism vs Democracy

Question 2

How was Cold War military?

Answer 2

Nuclear Arms Race

Question 3

How was Cold War economics?

Answer 3

Communism vs Capitalism

Question 4

How was Cold War cultural?

Answer 4

Freedom vs “Police State”

Question 5

Ho was Cold War education?

Answer 5

Space Race

Question 6

What was the Cold War?

Answer 6

A battle between two different sets of beliefs or ideologies

Question 7

Who were the key leaders of the Cold War?

Answer 7

Harry S. Truman

Stalin

Question 8

What country was Truman?

Answer 8

USA

Question 9

What country was Stalin?

Answer 9

Russia

Question 10

What countries were a part of The Communist World?

Answer 10

USSR
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland

Question 11

What countries were a part of The Free World?

Answer 11

USA
Canada
France
West Germany
Italy
Great Britain (UK)

Question 12

What was the goal of containment?

Answer 12

to “contain” or hold back the soviets and let communism collapse on its own

Question 13

What was the Cold War seen as?

Answer 13

A global war to win world domination and to outlast the enemy

Question 14

What were means of containment?

Answer 14

Collective Security - NATO vs Warsaw
Economic Programs - Marshall Plan
Political Will - Truman Doctrine
Espionage and Covert - CIA vs KGB
Proxy Wars
Nuclear Deterrent - Nuclear Arms Race

Question 15

What did the Truman Doctrine promote?

Answer 15

military and political aid to any nation willing to resist communism

Question 16

How much money did the USA give Turkey and Greece?

Answer 16

$400 dollars

Question 17

What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 17

Economic aid program to rebuild Western Europe

Question 18

What is a missile gap?

Answer 18

When a country is nervous about having less nuclear weapons

Question 19

What is a hydrogen bomb?

Answer 19

Even more powerful than a nuclear bomb (10000x)

Question 20

What is an ICBM?

Answer 20

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. It is a warhead tipped missile

Question 21

What is a neutron bomb?

Answer 21

Killed only with radiation leaving buildings intact

Question 22

What is MAD?

Answer 22

Mutually Assured Destruction.

Question 23

What was the Nuclear Triad?

Answer 23

Land based missiles, bombs from aircrafts, and submarine launched missiles

Question 24

What is fallout?

Answer 24

Nuclear radiation

Question 25

What is a mushroom cloud?

Answer 25

After-effects of an atomic bomb

Question 26

What is a silo?

Answer 26

Where the missiles are stored underground

Question 27

What is a bomb shelter?

Answer 27

Backyard shelters for families that would have protected nobody

Question 28

How does World War II end?

Answer 28

Truman drops bombs on Japan

Question 29

What two superpowers dominated after WWII?

Answer 29

USA and Russia (USSR)

Question 30

Where was the United Nations (UN) created?

Answer 30

New York City (NYC)

Question 31

What two regions were separated during the start of the Cold War?

Answer 31

The East and West

Question 32

How did Churchill start the Iron Curtain speech?

Answer 32

He condemned the United States and the pinnacle of the world

Question 33

What year did the USSR detonate their first bomb?

Answer 33

1949

Question 34

Where did the Chinese nationalists flee to after the Chinese civil war?

Answer 34

Taiwan (Republic of China)

Question 35

What was Mao Zedong?

Answer 35

A communist

Question 36

Who was Chiang Kai-shek?

Answer 36

A nationalist

Question 37

Who was supported by the USSR?

Answer 37

Mao Zedong

Question 38

Who was supported by the USA?

Answer 38

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 39

Why did Truman fire Mac?

Answer 39

He wanted to launch Nukes at the Chinese