Cold War Study Stack
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| What was the approximate time period of the Cold War? | 1945-1990
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| What Communist country was closest to the U.S. during the 1960s? | Cuba
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| What was the Berlin Airlift? | The U.S. flew supplies into West Berlin because the Communists were trying to stop supplies from getting through.
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| What was the "iron curtain"? | an imaginary line separating Europe's Communist and non-Communist countries.
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| Who coined the phrase "iron curtain"? | Winston Churchill
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| Why did the U.S. get involved in the Vietnam War? | To try to stop the spread of Communism
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| Who won the Korean War? | No one. It ended in a stalemate.
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| Why was the United Nations formed? | To try to keep peace in the world.
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| What was the name of the 13 day nuclear weapon standoff between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in 1962? | Cuban Missile Crisis
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| Who was the President during the Cuban Missile Crisis? | John F. Kennedy
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| Who was the Communist leader of the U.S.S.R. during the Cuban Missile Crisis? | Nikita Khrushchev
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| What Communist leader told the free countries of the world the "History is on our side and we will bury you!" | Nikita Khrushchev
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| What was the arms race? | A race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to build bigger and more weapons than the other.
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| In which type of government are you free--Communism or Democracy? | Democracy
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| What came Communist symbol came down in 1989? | The Berlin Wall
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