MWH Module 7 Section #13 Bellwork

What foreign policy is best represented by the U.S. involvement in the Korean War?

• Appeasement

• Détente

• Containment

• Imperialism

Match each Cold War concept to its correct description.

• Warsaw Pact

• Idea that full-scale nuclear war would destroy both sides

• Truman Doctrine

• Symbolic divide between communist and democratic Europe

• Iron Curtain

• U.S. policy to provide aid to countries resisting communism

• Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

• Military alliance of Soviet-led Eastern Bloc nations

The Berlin Airlift was a response to the Soviet blockade of ​ (a)   .

• West Berlin
• East Berlin
• the Iron Curtain
• Germany

Sort each nation or alliance into either Western Bloc or Eastern Bloc.

Groups:

(a) Western Bloc

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(b) Eastern Bloc

• NATO

• Hungary

• West Germany

• Warsaw Pact

• United States

• Soviet Union

Place these Cold War events in chronological order.

• Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech

• Truman Doctrine announced

• Berlin Airlift

• Formation of NATO

• Korean War begins

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”

Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain Speech, 1946

What was Churchill warning about in this speech?

• The rebuilding of Germany by Allied Nations

• The spread of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe

• The threat of fascism coming from the Soviet Union

• The official end of World War II in both theaters

Drag each phrase into the category of United States or Soviet Union strategy during the Cold War.

Groups:

(a) United States

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(b) Soviet Union

• NATO

• Support of communist revolutions

• Expansion into Eastern Europe

• Containment

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

What was the purpose of the Warsaw Pact?

• To support economic recovery in Europe

• To establish trade routes between communist nations

• To defend democratic governments

• To create a military alliance among communist nations

Match each Chinese leader or program with its role.

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Led to the formation of the People’s Republic of China

• Great Leap Forward

• Failed Chinese industrial and agricultural campaign

• Chinese Revolution (1949)

• Leader of the Chinese Nationalists

• Mao Zedong

• Communist revolutionary leader of China

Sort each example into either Military Conflict or Ideological Conflict.

Groups:

(a) Military Conflict

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(b) Ideological Conflict

• Formation of rival alliances

• Korean War

• Support of proxy governments

• Hungarian Revolution (1956)

• Propaganda between superpowers

• Berlin Airlift