Cold War Review

Cold War Review

Multiple Choice

The "Cold War" refers to tensions between which two countries?

• USA and Great Britain
• Soviet Union and China
• USA and Soviet Union
• Germany and France

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a primary cause of Cold War tensions?

• Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact
• Uneasy alliance between US and USSR during WWII
• Stalin's death and collapse of Communism
• Soviet Union's invasion of North Korea

The Cold War

• WHO: US and Soviet Union

• WHAT: period of tension between the countries that played out in arms/space competition, near fights, and proxy wars

• WHERE....

• WHEN: 1945-1991

• WHY....

Multiple Choice

Winston Churchill's term used to describe the division in Europe after WWII was called

• Communist Curtain
• Solid Division
• Steel Wall
• Iron Curtain

Multiple Choice

________ is an economic system that encourages citizens to own businesses and properties.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Totalitarianism

Multiple Choice

________ is an economic and political form of government in which the government owns all the land and most industries in the name of the people.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Totalitarianism

Causes of the Cold War

• Different goals at the end of WWII

• Conflicting ideologies

Multiple Choice

Which term refers to the alliance between the US and Western European countries?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• United Nations
• Satellite Nations

Multiple Choice

Which term refers to a group of nations that are under political and economic control of the USSR?

• United Nations
• Satellite Nations
• Containment
• NATO

Multiple Choice

The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance that included which countries?

• USA and Cuba
• US and Western Europe
• North and South Korea
• USSR and its satellite nations

Two Alliances

• NATO - US, Western Europe, and other democracies promised to protect each other through political and military support

• Warsaw Pact - Soviet Union and satellite states would defend one another; direct response to NATO

Multiple Choice

The Marshall Plan was designed to...

• punish Germany
• ease the effects of the Berlin Blockade
• help European nations recover from WWII
• end the Cold War

Containment

• The US wanted to stop the further spread of communism

• Used economic, political, and military support

• Ex: Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, covert operations, involvement in proxy wars

Multiple Choice

What structure was a symbol of the divide between communism and the West since the 1960s?

• the Red Square

• the Reichstag Building

• the Berlin Wall

• the Great Wall

Multiple Choice

Why did the US fight in Korea and Vietnam?

• to reconquer land that had been theirs before.

• to support the Allies in their struggle against Japan.

• to stop the spread of Communism.

• to build an alliance with China.

Multiple Choice

At the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam was ________.

• the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

• the US lost the Cold War.

• Vietnam was one unified country.

• the Korean War broke out.

Domino Theory

Multiple Choice

The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by the arrival of __________ in Cuba.

• aircraft carriers

• Chinese ships

• bomb shelters

• nuclear weapons

Multiple Choice

Despite all the tension during the Cold War why didn't the US and the Soviet Union get involved in military conflicts with each other?

• pressure from nonaligned nations kept the peace
• the United Nation wouldn't let them fight
• the potential for global nuclear war
• increased tensions in the Middle East

Multiple Choice

What does MAD stand for?

• Mutually Assured Destruction
• Men Are Difficult
• Me And David
• Mutually Assured Dentistry

Arms and Space Race

Multiple Choice

What does détente mean?

• Period of peace between the superpowers
• How to cook your spaghetti
• Period of conflict between the superpowers
• When you drive into a lamp post

Multiple Choice

Why did both countries want détente at this time?

• Spending too much on the arms race
• They decided to be nicer
• To make the other side look bad<br />
• As their Mums were very cross with them

Multiple Choice

What marked the end of the Cold War?

• the rule of Gorbechev
• the creation of Russia
• the breakup of the Soviet Union
• the destruction of the Berlin Wall

End of the Cold War

• Economy - Soviet economy was stagnating and proxy wars + arms/space race was costing a LOT of money

• Treaties - arms reduction and non-proliferation

• New leaders - Gorbachev!