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Cold War Proxy Wars

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 51mins

Name

Class

Date

The USA supported a south and the USSR helped a communist north in.... (more than one answer)

Afganistan

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam

Korea

Once the USSR supported one side of a proxy war with soldiers....

the USA could NOT send soldiers

the USA wanted to hide

the USA supported the south

United States was worried about Greece and Turkey. Why?

They Loved Thanksgiving

They were both surrounded by Communist

WW2 had left them too Rich

Iron Curtain had fallen on them

US policy for 44 years of the Cold War

Schlieffen Plan

Monroe Doctrine

Buffer States

Containment

The USA and the USSR could NOT fight each other directly so they......

Used other nations as substitutes

Held a nuclear exchange

Had many peace talks

Deterrents

Korean war started with...

USSR was there with soldiers

The US sent in soldiers

North Korea Invaded South Korea

Stalin reached over Europe

The USA assumed the USSR was trying to take over so they.....

Used Atomic Weapons

Decided to stop the spread of Communism everywhere

Gave Satellite States $400 Million

Fought A war against Afganistan

Idea that once nuclear war starts, it will end with both sides destroyed.

Satellite State

Deterrent

Mutually Assured Destruction

Cuban missile Crisis

1 major effect of the Vietnam war was...

23,052 Soviet Troops died

The US was able to stop the spread of Communism

The US pulled out their troops and lost

All Americans Helped fight the war

10.

The Korean War fighting ended at the...

38th parallel, close to where it began

Warsaw Partition

Peace treaty of 1954

still fighting

11.

Natives in Korea faced...

Huge bombing from USA

New level of freedom

Support from Canada

Relative peace

Reset

Cold War Proxy Wars

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 51mins

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