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Question | Answer |
1. The conference where Churchill, Stalin, and FDR met to discuss Germany’s future after World War II | Yalta Conference |
2. Explain existing tensions between the US and USSR before the Cold War began | communism vs. capitalism |
3. He led the communist forces that took control of China | Mao Zedong |
4. This example of containment provided financial aid to to struggling European countries (beyond Turkey & Greece) | Marshall Plan |
5. After France, Great Britain, and the U.S. decided to merge their zones of Germany, the Soviets put THIS into effect. | Berlin Blockade |
6. List 4 Soviet satellite nations | Poland, East Germany, Hungary |
7. Length of the Berlin Airlift | 11 months or a little less than a year |
8. Year that the Berlin Wall was built. | 1961 |
9. This organization investigated both the government and Hollywood for potential communists (acronym is fine) | HUAC |
10. The Soviet Union tested its first a-bomb and Germany split into 2 countries officially in THIS year. | 1949 |
11. Dividing line of North and South Korea. | 38th parallel |
12. Truman fired this decorated general during the Korean War for insubordination | Douglas MacArthur |
13. He was the president at the end of the Korean War. | Eisenhower |
14. A competition between two nations to gain weapon and military superiority is called THIS. | Arms Race |
15. Name of the man who led a communist revolution in Cuba in 1959. | Castro |
16. Place where trained Cuban exiles invaded in Cuba in 1961 in an attempt to overthrow the communist regime (it was a failure) | Bay of Pigs |
17. Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Khrushchev |
18. Year of the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
19. Explain the theory of M.A.D. | both sides attack and all are destroyed |
20. This was the name of the alliance between the USSR and its satellite nations | Warsaw Pact |
21. U.S. policy of making itself so militarily strong that no enemy would attack for fear of retaliation | Deterrence |
22. The act of spying | espionage |
23. The year the USSR collapsed (end of Cold War) | 1991 |
24. He was the president of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis. | JFK |
25. Global organization created after WWII to prevent future wars and promote peace | United Nations |