Cold War pt1

Question 1

Karl Marx (When and why important?)

Answer 1

wrote the book on communism and was a founder

Question 2

Vladimir Lenin (When and why important?)

Answer 2

first communist leader to put communism into practice

Question 3

Joseph Stalin

Answer 3

He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Question 4

Totalitarianism

Answer 4

Total control of every aspect of society, more political

Question 5

Communism

Answer 5

Everything is equal, economic idea

Question 6

Iron Curtain

Answer 6

Not a real barrier But it separated communist and capitalist countries. Eastern and Western Europe.

Question 7

Truman Doctrine/Containment

Answer 7

Containment of communism. Successful until the fall of the Soviet Union

Question 8

The Marshall Plan

Answer 8

it was billions of dollars in aid given to 16 nations after WWII

Question 9

Mao Zedong

Answer 9

communist victory :Chiang Kai-shek- nationalists

Question 10

Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism

Answer 10

US senator who wildly accused others of being a communist

Question 11

Edward R. Murrow

Answer 11

Reporter who reported Joseph McCarthy for accusing everyone

Question 12

Ike

Answer 12

Eisenhower, 1961 forewell address

Question 13

“Military-industrial complex”

Answer 13

individuals and institutions involved in the production of weapons and military technologies.

Question 14

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 14

Soviet leader who supplied Cuba with missiles

Question 15

Arms Race (USA vs USSR)

Answer 15

Competition in military superiority

Question 16

Fidel Castro

Answer 16

Bay of Pigs failed to remove from power

Question 17

Bay of Pigs invasion

Answer 17

Tried to remove Castro from power and was a massive failure.

Question 18

“New Frontier”

Answer 18

JFK program

Question 19

LBJ

Answer 19

US president at the beginning of US active Vietnam War

Question 20

“Great Society”

Answer 20

Lyndon B johnson’s program

Question 21

Countries on the Communist side of the “Iron Curtain”

Answer 21

USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria

Question 22

Berlin Airlift 1948 to 1949-

Answer 22

To counter the blockade imposed by the Soviet regime. To get supplies to West Berlin

Question 23

USSR Detonated their first atomic weapon 1949

Answer 23

A nuclear weapon explosive device

Question 24

Korean War 1950 to 1953

Answer 24

Conflict after World War II, US troops occupied the southern part of Korea, and soviet troops occupied the northern part of Korea

Question 25

Sputnik 1957

Answer 25

The Soviet Union launched a satellite into space

Question 26

Berlin Wall constructed 1961

Answer 26

Barrier that separated Berlin’s communist party. Separated East and West Germany

Question 27

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Answer 27

The Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on US cities

Question 28

Vietnam War active US involvement 1965 to 1973

Answer 28

A war between North and South Vietnam- severely damaged US econ.

Question 29

moon landing 1969

Answer 29

Apollo II First Landed Humans on the moon

Question 30

Nixon visits China in 1972

Answer 30

He visited it to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union

Question 31

fall of the Berlin Wall 1989

Answer 31

Spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West

Question 32

Three flaws of communism

Answer 32

incentive
calculation
knowledge