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Cold War Review
Review games for the Cold War Unit Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A theory of organizing society where the government owns all property. Often, a single political party controls power. | Communism |
| A theory of organizing society where individuals or companies own property. Usually is practiced in democracies. | Capitalism |
| The period of tension between the USA and USSR based on their opposing ideologies from 1945-1991 was called the ______________ | Cold War |
| By the end of World War II the U.S. and USSR had assumed the roles of the only two_______________ in the world. | Superpowers |
| At which conference were the decisions made to give Vietnam back to France after the War and to split Korea at the 38th Parallel? | Yalta Conference |
| This was a U.S. policy that gave significant economic aid to the war-torn European countries. | Marshall Plan |
| Winston Churchill said that an _____________________ had been dropped between Western and Eastern Europe. | Iron Curtain |
| This created the United States' policy of Containment for the rest of the Cold War. | Truman Doctrine |
| This was the Soviets' attempt to cut off Western influence in Berlin. It lasted almost a year. | Berlin Blockade |
| This was the U.S. and U.K.'s response to the Berlin Blockade in which they provided food and other resources to Western Berlin via airlift. | Berlin Airlift |
| This organization was created as a major alliance during the Cold War that is still the largest alliance in the world today. | NATO |
| This was the communist world's response to NATO. (An alliance) | Warsaw Pact |
| What was the wall that was built to split a city in half between East and West? It famously was taken down in 1989. | Berlin Wall |
| What were the two policies enacted by Mikhail Gorbachev that restructured the USSR to allow for more openness of their government and less government control of the economy? | Perestroika and Glastnost |
| When was the Cold War? | 1945-1991 |
| M.A.D: The idea that neither side will use their nuclear weapons because they know that the other side will react by sending nuclear bombs too, which will result in the destruction of both sides. | Mutually Assured Destruction |
| This was a period of incredible high tension during the Cold War when a newly communist country close to the U.S. was given nuclear weapons by the USSR. This was possibly the closest the world came to nuclear war. | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| What was the United States' failed attempt to invade Cuba in 1961 called? | Bay of Pigs Invasion |
| Who was the leader of Cuba after its Communist Revolution in 1959? | Fidel Castro |
| What nation imperialized Korea before WWII? | Japan |
| What country imperialized Vietnam before WWII? | France |
| Where was North and South Korea divided? | 38th Parallel |
| Who was the communist leader of North Korea? | Kim il-Sung |
| Who supported North Korea during the Korean War? | China and Soviet Union |
| Who supported South Korea during the Korean War? | United States |
| What was the policy that brought the United States into both the Korean and Vietnam wars? | Containment (Truman Doctrine) |
| What was the result of the Korean War? | An Armistice (Ceasefire) at the 38th Parallel |
| Who was the leader of the North Vietnamese Communists (Viet Minh)? | Ho Chi Minh |
| What was the result of the Vietnam War? | North and South Vietnam were united under Communism |
| Who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge who enacted four years of genocide in Cambodia? | Pol Pot |
| What was the name of the Communist group that was responsible for four year of genocide in Cambodia? | Khmer Rouge |
| Who were specifically targeted during the Cambodian Genocide? | Intellectuals, Religious Leaders, and Teachers. |
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