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MWH Cold War
Summerville High School
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What two nations were involved in the Cold War | USA and Soviet Union |
| What organization was created to prevent war in 1945 | United Nations |
| How did the USA and Soviet Union differ after the war | USA was the richest nation in the world, very little damage following the war and was a capitalist nation. USSR had a lot of damages from the war, were poor from rebuilding and were a socialist nation |
| What was the “Iron Curtain” | A term that describes the division of capitalist and communist nations in Europe during the cold war |
| What was containment | US policy to stop the spread of communism worldwide. |
| Define Marshall Plan | Plan for the US to give food and other aid to European nations to recover from war |
| How did the United States and Britain react to the Soviet blockade of Berlin | The Berlin Airlift, carrying goods to Berlin over the blockade |
| What was the Warsaw Pact | An agreement between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations, promising to defend each other if they were attacked |
| What countries were included in NATO | USA, Canada, and Western European nations |
| Define brinkmanship | The willingness of a powerful nation to go to the brink of war |
| What was Sputnik | the first satellite launched into space, by the Soviets in 1957 |
| What was the U-2 incident | An American spy plane shot down by the USSR in 1960 |
| What was the name of the policy to contain the spread of communism? | The Truman Doctrine |
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