Cold War Era

Why did the United States become involved with the region in the map above?

• The United States wanted to promote the spread of communism.

• The United States wanted to keep South and North Korea separated by religion.

• The United States wanted to prevent the spread of communism into South Korea.

• The United States wanted to reunite North and South Korea as a communist government.

What was the goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

• This country's goal was to spread communism - their political and economic system in which the government owns and controls businesses and property.
• This country's goal was to contain the spread of communism, therefore, the policy throughout the Cold War period was known as the “containment policy.”
• To encourage democratic governments throughout the world that were based on personal freedoms and a free enterprise economic system.

What was the goal of the United States during the Cold War?

• This country's goal was to spread communism - their political and economic system in which the government owns and controls businesses and property.
• This country's goal was to contain the spread of communism, therefore, the policy throughout the Cold War period was known as the “containment policy.”
• To encourage democratic governments throughout the world that were based on personal freedoms and a free enterprise economic system.

Term used to describe the Red Scare of communism in America.  Named after Joseph McCarthy, who announced that hundreds of communists were working in the United States government with the intent of overturning the government.  

• Black Plague
• McCarthyism
• The Great Awakening
• Marxism

As a result of McCarthy's tips to Americans, many Russian secret agents were uncovered in the US and prosecuted. 

• True
• False

Name the conflict that was started when North Korea's communist government invaded South Korea with the intention of reuniting the peninsula under one communist government.  The US and the UN supported South Korea and helped to prevent the spread of communism.  

• Vietnam
• Korean Conflict
• Cuban Missile Crisis 
• Berlin Wall

What was the result of the Korean Conflict in 1950?

• North Korea won the conflict and communism spread to the entire Korean territory.  
• The US took control of the entire Korean territory and created a democracy throughout the country.
• The conflict ended in a stalemate and the peninsula remained divided.

What was built by the Soviets to separate the communist and democratic portions of Berlin, which had been divided between the allies at the end of World War II.  People who lived in East Berlin were forbidden to cross to the western side of the wall.  

• The Great Wall of China
• Berlin Wall
• John's Wall

In 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down signifying the collapse of the communist control of Eastern Europe and an end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.

• True
• False

What was the name of the unmanned satellite, placed in space by the Soviet Union, which initiated the space race between the US and the USSR?

• Sputnik
• Lusitania
• Titanic
• Lindenburg