Introduction to the Cold War Review

Match the following words to their correct definition

• A conflict where two opposing countries avoid direct warfare

• espionage

• Competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of nuclear weapons

• nuclear arms race

• The practice of spying or using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information

• propoganda

• Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view

• satellite states

• Countries that are formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country

• proxy wars

The Cold War was the ​ (a)   state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and ​ (b)   competition between the Communist World – primarily the ​ (c)    and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the ​ (d)   world, primarily the ​ (e)    and its allies

• continuing
• cold
• economic
• Soviet Union
• Western
• Eastern
• United States
• Russia

The ________ Council can veto anything the United Nations seeks to pursue, making them very powerful. The Allies always get a seat on the council. Yet, other nations can rotate in and out to serve on the Council for limited terms.

Organise these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Capitalism

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(b) Communism

• Wealth redistribution and elimination of income inequality

• Competition and profit motive

• Consumer choice and variety

• Planned economy

• Private ownership of the means of production

• system of government is authoritarian

• Uniformity and equality of outcome

• system of government is democratic

• Wealth accumulation and income inequality

• Emphasis on collective rights and equality

• Collective ownership of the means of production

• Cooperation and common good

• Emphasis on individual rights and freedoms

At the Yalta Conference in 1945, the Allies agreed that...

• Communism and Capitalism should be kept separately

• Only the capital of Germany should be divided into four zones

• the East and West would be divided by an iron curtain

• Germany is to be divided into four zones of occupation

True or False

The Eastern division of Berlin belonged to Russia.

• True

• False

The ​ (a)   Conference

The ​ (b)   heads of state agree on the practical arrangements for Germany’s complete ​ (c)   , the abolition of the National Socialist Party, the ​ (d)   of war criminals and the amount that should be paid in ​ (e)   .

The agreements reached in Yalta on the occupation regime are confirmed.

• Potsdam
• three
• four
• disarmament
• trial
• reparations
• Yalta

Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of which nation?

• Britain

• USA

• France

• Russia

The Iron Curtain was

• a type of metal fence used to separate countries
• a term used to describe the alliance between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War
• a famous speech given by Winston Churchill during the Cold War
• a term used to describe the division between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War

The Truman Doctrine was

• A policy of the United States to conquer other nations
• A policy of the United States to support communist regimes
• A policy of the United States to support free peoples resisting Communist takeover

• A policy of the United States to remain neutral in all conflicts