Lesson 3- Red Scare, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam to End of Cold War

Lesson 3- Red Scare, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam War up to the End of the Cold War

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Red Scare, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam War up to End of the Cold War

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Why Did the Cold War End?

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Why Did the Cold War End?

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Multiple Choice

What were the years of the Cold War?

• 1945 to 1991

• 1914-1945

• 1976-2012

Multiple Choice

What two superpowers faced off against each other during the Cold War?

• the Soviet Union and the United States

• Russia and China

• Britain and the United States

• Britain and China

Multiple Choice

The Background Essay says that during World War II “the Soviet Union suffered the most.”

What numbers support this statement?

• The US had 400,000 deaths; Great Britain had 450,000 deaths; the Soviet Union had 24

  million deaths.

• The US had 100,000 deaths; Great Britain had 6 million deaths; the Soviet Union had 500,000 deaths.

• The US had 500,000 deaths; Great Britain had 1 million deaths; the Soviet Union had 2

  million deaths.

Multiple Choice

Why did Joseph Stalin establish satellite countries between the Soviet Union and Western Europe?

• The Soviet Union had suffered terribly from German aggression in World War II. He was

  determined to protect his nation from that happening again.

• The Soviet Union wanted to dominate the capitalistic world.

• The Soviet Union wanted to restore Eastern European monarchs.

Multiple Select

What three people mentioned in the last paragraph of the Background Essay played a role in bringing an end to the Cold War? Pick THREE out of the FOUR

• Pope John Paul II

• Lech Wałęsa

• Margaret Thatcher

• Vladimir Putin

Multiple Choice

McCarthyism in the 1950s is most closely associated with

• claims that communists had infiltrated the federal government

• efforts to prevent pro-communist governments in Latin America

• formation of the Warsaw Pact

• passage of the Interstate Highway Act

Multiple Choice

Which situation resulted from Senator Joseph McCarthy's search for Communists within the United States during the 1950s?

• Thousands of American citizens who believed in communism were either jailed or deported

• The reputations of many people were ruined by false accusations of disloyalty

• Many high-ranking government officials were exposed as spies of the Soviet Union

• Organized groups of Communists began a wave of violent political terrorism

Multiple Choice

Which statement BEST describes the policy of "brinkmanship" supported by John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State to President

Eisenhower)?

• Diplomacy and disarmament are encouraged to avoid nuclear war

• Threats and aggressive tactics are used to cause the opposing side to back down.

• Gaining alliances and formal agreements are

  encouraged to avoid war.

• The goal is to get treaties signed where both parties agree the use of nuclear weapons is not an option.

Multiple Choice

America responded to the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 by

• boycotting the 1958 summer Olympics

• creating NASA and passing the National Defense

  Education Act.

• deploying military forces to eastern Europe

• increasing government funding for the Navy's nuclear submarine program.

Multiple Choice

In May 1960, the Soviet Union and the United States were at odds over the "U-2 Incident" which involved

• the construction of the Berlin Wall.

• Soviet missiles being shipped into Cuba.

• Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe.

• the shooting down of an American spy plane.

Multiple Choice

How did the domino theory influence the United States' role in the Vietnam War?

• Vietnamization became the new U.S. foreign policy.

• It forced the United States to support the Vietcong

• The United States adopted a position of neutrality.

• It convinced the government to become involved in the war.

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of "Vietnamization"?

• Hand South Vietnam over to the communists

• Keep peace with the Soviet Union

• Retake territory lost during the Tet Offensive

• Force South Vietnam to take over more of the fighting

Multiple Choice

This map shows the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Which statement BEST describes the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

• It was an escape path for people out of North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

• It was used by North Vietnam to get weapons and troops into South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

• It was used by South Vietnam to get weapons and troops into North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

• It was used extensively by the United States to use guerrilla warfare against North Vietnam.

Multiple Choice

Which of these events- which occurred in August of 1963- was an important first step towards controlling nuclear weapons?

• the U-2 incident

• the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

• the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT)

• the formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty

  Organization)

Multiple Choice

Which of these events occurred during the era of the Superpowers (the Cold War)?

• the rise of imperialism in western Europe

• attacks by Muslim extremists on the United States

• free trade among the countries of North

  America

• the presence of Communist governments in the Western Hemisphere

Multiple Choice

Kennedy's speech is critical of Soviet-backed actions in what country?

• Cuba

• Poland

• Germany

• Vietnam

The End of the Cold War

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Reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev

• Elected premier of the U.S.S.R. in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev

proposed new reforms to better compete with the West &
improve the Soviet economy

1.

Cuts military spending and attempts to limit the Arms Race

2.

Supports a policy of economic reform called Perestroika

Reorganization of the Soviet economy to allow elements of
capitalism such as limited private ownership

3.

Supports a policy of political reform known as Glasnost

Allows more freedom of speech & the press by limiting
Government censorship
Encourages citizens and the press to openly criticize the
Government

Causes of pro-democracy movements in Eastern

Europe

• Failed Economic Policies

– Poverty, Food Shortages, lack of innovation & Corruption in

Communist economies

– Economic recovery, growth, & prosperity in

Capitalist

nations of the West

• Loosening of Soviet control

– Soviet Premier & reformer Mikhail Gorbachev opposes using Soviet

resources to keep unpopular communist governments in power

• Allows for the growth of pro-democracy movements throughout Eastern

Europe

Satellite Nations break free

• The first Satellite nation will break free of Soviet control in 1989

when the Communist government of Poland is pressured into holding
free elections
– Lech Walesa & his pro-democracy party “Solidarity” wins control of Poland’s

government for the first time since WWII

– When Soviet Premier Gorbachev takes no action to reinstall Communist rule,

democratic movements spread throughout Eastern Europe

• In November of the same year mobs of Berliners tear down the Berlin

Wall signifying that the 45 year Cold War is finally coming to a close
– Without the support of the U.S.S.R. Communism will be replaced with

democracy and free market capitalism in every Satellite nation by 1990 – Most
will join N.A.T.O. as well

Post-Cold War Europe

• The end of the Cold War and lifting of the

Iron Curtain marks a new era of cooperation
and unity across the once divided continent
of Europe
1.

The Re-unification of Germany (1990)

2.

The inclusion of former Warsaw Pact
members into the N.A.T.O. military
alliance

•

Most of Europe is now allied together for
greater collective security

•

Russia continues to oppose the existence of
NATO as a threat to national security

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

• The Command economy encouraged entrepreneurship.

• The one-party state system enabled reforms to be made easily as there was centralized control.

• Overemphasis on quantity of goods resulted in poor quality of Soviet goods.

• The economy of the USSR grew at a faster rate than that of the USA.

Multiple Choice

The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

Multiple Choice

Reagan’s foreign policy called for

• making an alliance with the Soviet Union.

• limiting American intervention in the affairs of other nations.

• protecting the island of Cuba from invasion.

• taking on a strong anti-communist role in the world.

Multiple Select

What two policies did Mikhail Gorbachev adopt to try and save the Soviet Union? (click

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

• Berlin Wall

Multiple Choice

Glasnost is best characterized as

• a form of re-Stalinization

• a restructuring of the economy

• a form of central planning

• a form of political liberalization

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a cause of pro-democracy movements in Eastern Europe?

• Poverty, Food Shortages, lack of innovation

• Eastern European countries earning a higher GDP than the west

• Loosening of Soviet control

• Economic recovery, growth, & prosperity  in Capitalist nations of the West

Multiple Choice

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a missile treaty in hopes of?

• Reducing tensions associated with the threat of nuclear war

• Providing an exchange of weapons for war hostages

• Allowing secret weapons technologies to be shared

• Establishing an official cease-fire

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be identified as a cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union?

• The expensive arms race in the USSR became an enormous burden on the struggling economy

• The Soviet government used their military strength to put down any resistance

• The United States promised to provide economic assistance to the Soviet Union if they broke up

• Winston Churchill coordinated Operation "Sea Lion"

Multiple Choice

As a result of a struggling Soviet system

• many of the countries in Eastern Europe staged revolutions against their communist governments

• people increased their personal holdings in land

• a majority of people started to see the Soviet nation as a power entity

• their economy grew exponentially

Multiple Choice

Which was the first satellite Eastern European country to break free from the Soviet Union?

• Poland

• France

• Ukraine

• Italy

Multiple Choice

After World War II, many Germans left East Germany to live in the more productive, democratic West Germany. How did the government of East Berlin try to contain defections from East to West Berlin?

• Improve conditions in East Berlin

• Allowed people to work in the West

• Allow them to leave as they please

• Build a wall to keep people from moving to west Berlin

Multiple Choice

What is this photo showing?

• The Great Wall of China

• Th Iron Curtain

• The Division of Russia

• The Berlin Wall

Multiple Choice

What did the destruction of the Berlin Wall symbolize?

• the fall of communism

• the fall of capitalism

• the end of the Vietnam War

• the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Multiple Choice

What happened in 1989 in Germany?

• The Iron Curtain ripped in half.

• The Great Wall of Communism was blown up

• The Berlin Wall began to be torn down.

• Germany built a higher wall around its capital

Multiple Choice

When was Germany re-unified?

• 1989

• 1990

• 2000

• 1999

Multiple Choice

Which event directly contributed to the end of the Cold War?

• Several communist-based governments collapsed across Eastern Europe

• The United States increased military aid to South Vietnam

• The Marshall Plan

• Senator McCathy's trials rooting out suspected communists

Multiple Choice

After the fall of the USSR, what did many parts of the former USSR do?

• Attempted to reestablish communism

• Break away from Soviet Union and become independent

• Establish their own communist government

• Change their economic system to the command economy system