MWH Unit 8 Review: The Cold War

What does the term ‘Cold War’ refer to?

• post-World War II period of competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union

• conflict between Great Britain and France over African colonization

• competition between the U.S. and Japan over colonization before World War II

• the conflict over the creation of the Jewish state of Israel in Palestine

Place the group in the Alliance it is in!

Groups:

(a) US Allies

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(b) USSR Allies

• South Korea

• Warsaw Pact

• West Germany/Berlin

• Israel

• NATO

• East Germany/Berlin

• Cuba

• North Vietnam

• China

• North Korea

• South Vietnam

What was one way in which the Korean War and the Vietnam War were similar?

• both resulted in the unification of two formerly independent nations

• both reflected the success of the Western policy of containment

• both attempted to remove French imperialists from power

• both were ‘hot-spots’ that developed from Cold War tensions

How was the end of WWII different from the end of the Cold War

• There was no Marshall Plan to help former USSR controlled area after the Cold War

• Russia was taken over by the US after the Cold War

• No nukes were dropped at the end of WWII

• More countries were split up at the end of the Cold War

Which events symbolized the end of the Cold War

• Collapse of the Berlin Wall

• USSR policy of Glasnost and Perestroika

• Workers Strikes in Poland and Czechoslovakia

• All of these

In 1948, the United Nations approved the Declaration of Human Rights.  What does this document state?

• International disputes will be resolved by the UN Security Council.

• All nations are required to implement a democratic-republican government.

• All human beings are born free and entitled to civil, economic, and social freedoms

• Decolonization in Africa and Asia must be a top priority of the United Nations.