| Question | Answer |
| 1. The conference where Churchill, Stalin, and FDR met to discuss Germany’s future after World War II | Yalta Conference
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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 |
