Cold War Review

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America's relationship with the Soviet Union was called a "Cold War" because the...

• Soviets fought the United States by freezing prices
• the United States fought the Soviet Union during their harsh, cold winter
• Soviet Union and the United States were enemies, but no official war took place
• Soviet Union and United States were developing nuclear weapons using cold fusion

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By applying the strategy of containment, the United States hoped to prevent the

• emergence of an economic crisis in Europe
• return of Nazi ideas to postwar Germany
• expansion of the Soviet Union's influence around the world
• spread of nationalism from China to the rest of Asia 

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Who "Fought" in the Cold War?

• U.S. & Japan
• Japan & Germany
• U.S. & Soviet Union
• Germany & U.S. 

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What is an Arms Race?

• When two countries compete to create the best and most weapons 
• When two countries compete to create new colonies
• When two countries compete over resources

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The alliance of communist countries

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Triple Alliance
• Communist Alliance

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How did the Marshall Plan aim to contain the spread of communism?

• It built up the western European armed forces.

• It helped rebuild and strengthen European economies.

• It forced Americans to take loyalty oaths to avoid losing their jobs.

• It created a military alliance among western European and North American nations.

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What is NATO?

• A military alliance between Western European Countries, the U.S. and Canada.

• A military alliance between Western European Countries, the Soviet Union and China.

• A military alliance between Eastern European Countries, Including the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

• A military alliance between Eastern European Countries.

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The launch of Sputnik I intensified Cold War tensions and caused the —

• United States to increase spending on technology, education and weapons to compete with the Soviet Union

• Soviet Union to move missiles and warships to Cuba in order to threaten the United States

• United States to send troops and aid to East Berlin to free it from Soviet control

• Soviet Union to threaten Europe with nuclear attack if Soviet airspace were violated

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Which is a key principle of Capitalism?

• Supply and Demand determine production and price

• The means of production are controlled by the state

• Businesses are owned by the people collectively

• Employment is determined by social class

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What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal
• England and France
• Germany and Italy
• United States and Soviet Union

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What does the ‘Iron Curtain’ symbolize? 

• The division between East Germany and West Germany
• The division between East Berlin and West Berlin
• The division between communist Europe and noncommunist Europe 
• The division between North Korea and South Korea

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After WWII, the United States had which type of government?

• democracy

• communism

• monarchy

• dictatorship

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Which event symbolized the end of the Cold War?

• Allies unifying 4 sections of Germany to create West Germany

• United States landing on the moon

• Collapse of the Soviet Union

• Signing of the Cold War peace treaty

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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had which type of government/economic system?

• democracy

• monarchy

• capitalism

• communism

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What two superpowers immerged after World War II?

• United States and Germany

• Soviet Union and Germany

• Soviet Union and Russia

• United States and Soviet Union

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What was the main foreign policy of the U.S. government during the 1950s and 60s?

• fighting the threat of terrorism

• securing new trade relationships

• prosecuting human rights violations

• containing the spread of communism

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Which group was created in response to the formation of NATO?

• Warsaw Pact

• Central Intelligence Agency

• Office of Strategic Services

• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

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The "Iron Curtain" refers to a divide between which two groups?

• colonies and colonial powers

• Allied- and Axis-controlled territory

• industrialized and nonindustrialized nations

• US and Soviet spheres of influence

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What were the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine intended to do?

• prevent a nuclear arms race

• halt the spread of communism

• help Asian countries recover from war

• support former European colonies

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What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• keep East Germany from becoming a communist satellite

• protect Berlin from invasion by the Soviet Union

• prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany

• stop communist spies from infiltrating West Berlin

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Which term best describes this image?

• Domino Theory

• Massive Retaliation

• Flexible Response

• Covert Activities

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“The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world—and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own nation.” – President Harry Truman, speech to Congress, 1947

What policy does this represent?

• Limitation of Arms

• Collective Security

• Containment of Communism

• Mutually assured destruction

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What title best fits this timeline of events?

1. 1946- Communist government established in Albania
2. 1947- Truman Doctrine announced
3. 1948- Berlin Airlift begins
4. 1949- NATO formed
5. 1950- Korean War begins

• Effects of the Marshall Plan

• Developments of the early Cold War

• Impacts of the Manhattan Project

• Causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Which statement best describes how the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved?

• President Kennedy ended the Cuban trade embargo

• Fidel Castro negotiated a peaceful settlement

• The Communist government in Cuba was overthrown

• The Soviets agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba

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What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion?

• overthrow Cuba's communist governments

• Remove Soviet missiles that had been positioned in Cuba

• Enforce a trade embargo on imports of Cuban sugar

• Rescue Cubans who wanted to escape to the US

Communism

• Communism is a system of government where the government owns factories, land and natural resources, and controls everything.

• Following the end of WWII, the Soviet Union wanted to spread communism across Europe.  The U.S. and its allies wanted to stop it.

The Iron Curtain

• A competition for power and territories began in Europe.

  
  

• This created a sharp division between Eastern and Western Europe. 

  
  

• The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, stated that an “iron curtain” had fallen across Europe.

• This imaginary border separated democracy and communism and cut off Eastern Europe from the rest of the world.

Berlin Airlift

• The Soviet Union controlled the eastern half of Germany and the Allied Powers controlled the western half.

• In addition, Berlin, Germany’s capital city, was located in the Soviet-controlled eastern side, but was also divided.

• Therefore, the Allied-controlled parts of the city were totally surrounded by a Soviet zone. This created many problems for the Allies.

Berlin Airlift

• The Soviet Union tried to force the Allies to surrender their piece of Berlin by enforcing a blockade (or a stop on all goods from coming in) for all supplies coming to West Berlin by road, train, and waterway.

•  For 321 days, the U.S. and Allied airplanes flew in and out several times a day and at night to drop off supplies. This operation became known as the Berlin Airlift.

NATO

• Following World War II, the United States and some European countries formed an organization to help protect each other from communists aggressions.

• This organization was called NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• NATO agreed to help each other if the communists ever attacked. NATO countries hoped that their organization would help contain communism and keep it from spreading.

Cuban Missile Crisis

• The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms race.  An arms race is when two nations try to have more and bigger weapons than the other.

• The United States often flew spy planes over communist Cuba.  Cuba is located only 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

• Cameras captured something scary during one spy plane flight:  Soviet Missiles, in Cuba, pointed toward the United States!

Cuban Missile Crisis

•  President John F. Kennedy sent U.S. Navy ships to stop Soviet ships taking more missiles to Cuba.

•  American citizens worried that a nuclear war could happen at any moment.

• Negotiations between Kennedy and Khrushchev were intense. Khrushchev finally agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba if Kennedy would not invade Cuba.

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Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought for influence throughout the globe during the...

• Third World War

• American-Russo War

• Cold War

• Communist Revolution

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President Harry Truman used the policy of _______ to address Communism. This policy would become the key way the United States fought the Soviet Union.

• Containment

• Appeasement

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Reparations

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What symbolized the ending of the Cold War?

• The destruction of the Berlin Wall in Germany.

• The Soviet Union's conversion to capitalism.

• The United State's adoption of socialism over capitalism.

• The use of nuclear warfare to subdue the Soviet Union.

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A system where the government owns the means of production and single party rule

• democracy

• socialism

• communism

• capitalism

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Emergency shipment of supplies sent via airplane

• cargo

• FedEx

• Amazon

• airlift

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An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

• League of Nations
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• United Nations

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An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.

• Democrat
• Socialism
• Capitalism
• Communism

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Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets

• Warsaw Pact
• NATO
• League of Nations
• United Nations

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In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure.

• Berlin Wall
• Cold War
• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis

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a Barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, it completely cut off west Berlin From surrounding east Germany and from East Berlin.

• Berlin Wall
• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cold War

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A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country.

• Truman Doctrine
• Communism
• Capitalism
• Socialism

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1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

• Bay of Pigs
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine
• Treaty of Ghent

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Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations

• Iron Curtain
• Berlin Wall
• Bay of Pigs
• Divide

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airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• Baby Boom
• Warsaw Pact
• Bay of Pigs
• Berlin Airlift

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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba

• Cold War
• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Wall