Cold War-Capitalism And Communism

Question 1

Rivalry and extreme tension between the United States and the Soviet Union

Answer 1

Cold War

Question 2

An economic theory in which goodsare shared amongst the people without a government or currency.

Answer 2

Communism

Question 3

Flying airplanes into West Berlin to help the people in need

Answer 3

Berlin Airlift/Airlift

Question 4

3-year long war on the Korean Peninsula, incorporated North Korea, South Korea, China, the Soviet Union, NATO, and the United States

Answer 4

Korean War

Question 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, creates to stop communism.

Answer 5

NATO

Question 6

Anti-communist senator who scared citizens away from communism.

Answer 6

Joseph McCarthy

Question 7

Leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953.

Answer 7

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 8

Symbolic boundary that divided Europe between communism and capitalism.

Answer 8

Iron Curtain

Question 9

Soviet missiles placed in Cuba. Caused a political crisis after American planes spotted the missiles.

Answer 9

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 10

War between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, resulted in Vietnam being united under a communist state.

Answer 10

Vietnam War

Question 11

Physical wall that divided communist East Germany and the capitalist West Germany.

Answer 11

Berlin Wall

Question 12

Uniting Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall

Answer 12

German Reunification

Question 13

What happened in 1945?

Answer 13

WWII ends, Cold War begins

Question 14

What happened in 1950?

Answer 14

Korean War begins after North Korea invaded South Korea.

Question 15

What happened in 1961?

Answer 15

Berlin Wall is built

Question 16

What are the differences between capitalism and communism?

Answer 16

Capitalism advocates a free market with private owners owning businesses. These owners use their businesses to make profit. In communism, there is no government or paper money, instead everybody has access to the goods.

Question 17

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?

Answer 17

There was a peaceful agreement to remove American Missiles from Italy and Turkey and for the Soviets to remove theirs from Cuba.

Question 18

What was the outcome of the Korean War?

Answer 18

Truce is signed of 3 years of no progress.

Question 19

What country was divided into four parts after World War II.

Answer 19

Germany was divided into four parts of the conclusion of the Second World War.

Question 20

What was unique about this division?

Answer 20

Berlin was controlled by the Soviet Union.

Question 21

What was built to divided East Berlin and West Berlin?

Answer 21

Berlin Wall

Question 22

What caused the arms race between the US and USSR?

Answer 22

Each country wanted more influence on a global scale.

Question 23

Why was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?

Answer 23

To stop the spread of communism and to promote capitalism.

Question 24

What was the outcome of the Vietnam War?

Answer 24

War between Communist North Vietnam and Capitalist South Vietnam. Resulted in Vietnam being united under communism.

Question 25

What did television change American society.

Answer 25

Television allowed Americans to “see” what was happening across the globe instead of radio.

Question 26

What impact did space exploration have on the world?

Answer 26

NASA is creates, people learn about space travel on television.

Question 27

What were occupation zones?

Answer 27

Areas that divided Germany after the fall of Nazi Germany.

Question 28

What were hot spots?

Answer 28

Ares in Germany with high tension.

Question 29

What happened in 1991?

Answer 29

Soviet Union collapses after a failed hardcore communist coup to replace Gorbachev, and the first democratic election in the Russian SSR.