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Team Spence-Cold War
Team Spence- Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was president at the time of the Cold War? | Richard M. Nixon |
| When did the Cold War begin? | At the end of World War II |
| What were the competing ideologies? | Capitalism and Communism |
| Who called the seperation the "iron curtain?" | Winston Churchill |
| What four countries occupied Germany and its capital after the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich? | United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France |
| How did the Soviets retaliated? | By blockading all road, rail, and water links between Berlin and western Germany |
| What was the airlift designed to do? | To keep the city's inhabitants alive, fed, and warm. |
| How long was the blockade? | 11 months |
| What did the Berlin wall seperate? | East and West Germany |
| True or false: The United States fought along side of the Soviet Union during World War II. | True |
| The United States' policy of resisting communism during the Cold War was named after what president? | Turman |
| The planned placement of missiles in what country caused a crisis in 1962? | Cuba |
| What communist bloc alliance competed with NATO? | Warsaw Pact |
| What US politician outlined a plan for rebuilding Europe? | Marshall |
| North Korea and South Korea are divided by what line? | The 38th Parallel |
| Who were the bay of pigs invaders? | Cuban exiles |
| What year was the Cuban Missile Crisis? | 1962 |
| NATO stands for what? And what was its purpose? | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was intended to serve as a military counterweight to the Soviet forces in Europe |
| The US believed ____________ was communist and they supported the noncommunist side instead of them. | North Korea |
| President Dwight D. Eisenhower contemplated using these in Korea | Nuclear Weapons |
| The US feared this prime ministers communist leaning but the Soviet Union offered him assistance. | Fidel Castro |
| Who was the president during the Bay of Pigs | John F. Kennedy |
| Invasion of Cuba planned by the previous administration and intended to overthrow Castro and his supporters | The Bay of Pigs |
| Was the Bay of Pigs a success? | NO- Fidel captured or killed the entire invasion force ): |
| When did the Cold War start? | at the end of WWII |
| Who was fighting in the Cold War? What were the sides? | Communist and capitalist democracy |
| What was the name of the satellite the Soviet Union launched? | Sputnik |
| Who "squared" off with Richard Nixon in the the kitchen debate? | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Were women prominent during this time? Did they work, and make money? | No- They were housewivves |
| Political leaders in the US believed that ____________ provided the best defense against communist infiltration in their nation. | families |
| What did people fear the most? | the spread of communism |
| He believed almost every one who acted "strange" was communist. | Senator Joseph McCarthy |
| The referred to women as an "oppressed class" and argued against male "colonization" of female bodies for | womens liberation- feminist |
| This reggae super stars music spread throughout the world, falling blacks to the cause. | Bob Marley |
| The United States copied the Soviet Union and launched what? | satellite- Explorer I |
| Who is the best AP teacher in the world? | Mrs. Spencer |
| Whats Mrs. Spencer's favorite animal? | Any animal that starts with a "P" |
| What's Mrs. Spencer's white cats name? | I DONT REMEMBER |
| Who's Mrs. Spencer's favorite student? | Amanda King |
| Western European nations experienced what many people termed an economical miracle...what did they do? | Recovered swiftly from the war |
| What helped western Europe recover? | The Marshall plan |
| Europeans could afford what luxury after their recovery due it being more affordable. | Automobiles |
| The space race was between what two countries? | The Soviet Union and the US |
| The Societ Union experts wanted to demonstate to the world that their apparent superiority in ________ and ______________ | science and technology |
| Rebellious artists and novelists found themselves silenced or deonounced in an exaggerated and reversed form of what? | McCarthyism |
| What does McCarthyism mean? | anticommunist repression |
| Who was the first Soviet leader to step foot on US soil? | Khrushchev |
| Krushchev's tour of the United States contributed to what? | The "thaw" of the Cold War |
| What soviet leader did not get to see Disneyland and was dissapointed!? | Krushchev...poor guy ): |
| The first assault on the bipolar world emanated form what country under whos rule? | France- President Charles de Gaulle |
| This leader dreamed of a Europe that could act as a third world in world affairs | Charles de Gaulle |
| De Gaulle and others questioned the credibility of the American promise to defed Europe against a Soviet attack to prove it they did what? | Threatened nuclar retaliation against the Soviet Union |
| Gualles main goal was? | Independence |
| The french detonated their first atomic bomb in what desert? | Sahara |
| he ruled the federation of Yugoslavia with and iron hand | Josip broz |
| What was Josip broz also known as | Marshal Tito |
| Titos resistance to Soviet control led to a major split with who? | Stalin |
| What is de-stalinization? | the end of the rule of terror and the partial liberalization of Soviet society |
| The governemt wanted to deflate whos reputation in the Soviet Union | Stalin |
| This person gained power and bisibility as a nationalist leader who annocunced Hungary's neutality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact | Imre Nagy |
| Who crushed the Hungarian uprising? | The Soviets |
| A dependable communist leader who adhered stictly to a pro Soviet line of foreign policy and secretly executed nagy, along with many others who had mistakenly trusted a Soviet promise of safe conduct | janos kadar |
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