Cold War 5th Grade

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Why was the conflict between the United States & Russia during the second half of the twentieth century referred to as the "Cold War?"

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while the nations were hostile to one another, they did not directly engage in warfare

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The Cuban Missile Crisis represented which of the following? Options: the closest the world came to nuclear destruction during the Cold War, the most violent & deadly incident during the Cold War, the best example of US-Soviet cooperation during the Cold War, the greatest success of US efforts to spread democracy during the Cold War

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the closest the world came to nuclear destruction during the Cold War

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Why did the government of East Germany build a wall around the western half of the city of Berlin during the Cold War?

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Millions of East German citizens were escaping to live in the more democratic West Berlin

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Who was the Soviet leader who wanted to place missiles in Cuba to launch against the US?

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Krushchev

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The term "Iron Curtain" is associated with which conflict involving the US?

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Cold War

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The US did not want Soviet missiles in Cuba because Cuba is

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very close to the US and posed an immediate threat

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The map represents

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Berlin airlift

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Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis a serious global concern?

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the events almost led to the outbreak of nuclear war

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What term is used to describe an imaginary line that separated communist influenced Eastern Europe from the more democratic nations of Western Europe?

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iron curtain

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Senator McCarthy believed there were many ___ living in the US that threatened the "American Way of Life"

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communists