Cold War-Finals

Question 0

United Nations

Answer 0

Organization created after WWII to promote world peace

Question 1

Causes of the Cold War

Answer 1

(T-MAC):
T-Two Ideologies
M-Mutual Distrust
A-Arms Race
C-Competition, space race, control of third world, athletics

Question 2

Iron Curtain

Answer 2

Churchill’s description of Europe being divided by democracy and communism

Question 3

Truman Doctrine

Answer 3

The US will help any free country fight (to contain communism)

Question 4

The Marshall Plan

Answer 4

US sent economic aid to help Europe rebuild and prevent spread of communism in W. Europe

Question 5

Berlin Blockade

Answer 5

Soviets stop all land travel into and out of Berlin

Question 6

Berlin Airlift

Answer 6

US sent food and fuel to Berlin through the air

Question 7

NATO

Answer 7

(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Military alliance (US and West Europe)

Question 8

Warsaw Pact

Answer 8

Military alliance with Soviets and E. Europe

Question 9

The Rosenburgs

Answer 9

American couple who provided data to Soviets with information on the atomic bomb, executed for espionage

Question 10

Sputnik

Answer 10

Soviet Union launches the world a first satellite in 1957

Question 11

U-2 Incident

Answer 11

Soviet Union shoots down American U-2 spy plane

Question 12

Bay of Pigs

Answer 12

CIA led invasion of Communist Cuba in 1961

Question 13

Berlin Wall

Answer 13

Soviets build a wall around W. Berlin

Question 14

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 14

Soviet placed missiles in Cuba pointing at the US

Question 15

Prague Spring

Answer 15

Czech. Holds peaceful demonstrations to end communism

Question 16

Tiananmen Square

Answer 16

Democratic protests in China by students (1989)

Question 17

Fall of the Wall

Answer 17

(1989) Berlin Wall is finally destroyed

Question 18

Soviet Republic becomes democratic

Answer 18

(1990) Now independent, Germany reunites

Question 19

End of the Soviet Union

Answer 19

(1991) Soviet Union and communism collapse

Question 20

Cold War Battlefields

Answer 20

(CHECKING AC):

• China
• Hungary
• Egypt
• Czech.
• Korea
• Iran
• Nicaragua
• Guatemala
• Afghanistan
• Chile