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Cold War Vocabulary

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  • Q1
    1950-1991 A period of threats or tensions but never an actual war over differences between Russia and the United States.
    World War 2
    Hot War
    Cold War
    World War 3
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  • Q2
    Country involved in the Cold war who wanted democracy and capitalism.
    United States
    Soviet Union
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  • Q3
    Country involved in the Cold War who wanted autocracies and communism.
    United States
    Soviet Union
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  • Q4
    1950-1953 A UN force led by the United States fought for a democracy in the South, and China and the Soviet Union fought for communism in the North. In the end, the boundary between the 2 remained at the 38th parallel (DMZ).
    Korean War
    World War 2
    World War 1
    Vietnam War
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  • Q5
    1955-1975 A twenty year conflict between communist North against South and its ally, the United States. Ended with an unified communist country.
    World War 2
    Vietnam War
    Korean War
    World War 1
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  • Q6
    A competition between, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The Soviet Union won by launching 1st artificial satellite called Sputnik in 1957 and the first man in space, Turi Gagarin in April 1961.
    Space Race
    Star Wars
    Space War
    30s
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  • Q7
    Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores
    Berlin Missile Crisis
    Latin American Missile Crisis
    Cuban Missile Crisis
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  • Q8
    Symbol of the Cold War, built in Germany to separate Communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin.
    German Wall
    Iron Curtain
    Berlin Wall
    30s
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  • Q9
    A system of beliefs or ideas.
    Geology
    Sociology
    Ideology
    Psychology
    30s
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  • Q10
    Term used by Winston Churchill to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations
    Berlin Wall
    Iron Curtain
    German Wall
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  • Q11
    A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
    Checker Theory
    Domino Theory
    Chess Theory
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  • Q12
    The United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
    Containment
    Alliance System
    Confinement
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  • Q13
    A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII. Offered money to countries who supported democracy and resisted communism.
    Domino Plan
    McArthur Plan
    Marshall Plan
    30s
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  • Q14
    An alliance of democratic countries in western Europe made to defend one another if they were attacked.
    NEMO
    NATO
    NAMA
    NAMO
    30s
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  • Q15
    An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European communist nations.
    Stalingrad Pact
    Poland Pact
    Berlin Pact
    Warsaw Pact
    30s
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  • Q16
    British Prime Minister who opposed appeasement and he predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.
    Winston Churchill
    Douglas McArthur
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Queen Elizabeth
    30s
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  • Q17
    Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb and issued the Truman Doctrine during the Cold War.
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Winston Churchill
    Harry S. Truman
    Douglas McArthur
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  • Q18
    Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
    Joseph Stalin
    Harry Truman
    Vladimir Lenin
    Winston Churchill
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  • Q19
    Promise made by the U.S. that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism.
    Truman Doctrine
    30s
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  • Q20
    A hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes
    military warfare
    guerrilla warfare
    standard warfare
    30s
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