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Final Jeopardy
Cold War II
The Cold War
Turns Hot
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The Cold War
The End of
the Cold War
Potpourri
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Q: Alliance formed to stop
the spread of communism?
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R:
NATO
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Q: Name 2 things families
would typically see or hear
on tv during the cold war
era?
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R:
“Duck and cover”
Bert the turtle
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Q: The Purpose of Marshal’s
Plan objective was to build
up European countries
economy so they….
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R:
Wouldn’t be susceptible to
Communism.
Or
Could fight off Communism
themselves
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Q: Truman Doctrine was 1st
used in Greece and Turkey
because?
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R: There was a direct threat
of Communism taking over
there. Stalin wanted the
Dardanelles Strait.
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Q: What was the 1st Conflict
of the Cold War the
western allies faced?
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R: Berlin Blockade
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Q: What was the name of the
alliance set up by the Soviet
Union and their Eastern
European allies?
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R: Warsaw Pact
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Q: What did Churchill call the
division of Europe between
Communist and nonCommunist countries?
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R: Iron Curtain
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Q: What was the purpose of the
Berlin Blockade?
AND
Was it successful? explain
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R: Purpose: To starve W. Berlin
so that they would give up
and the SU could control all
of Berlin.
Successful???: NO bc of the
Berlin Airlift where we sent
12,500 tons of supplies daily
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Q: Who were the “Big 3” at the
Potsdam conference and
what threat was made?
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R:
Truman, Attlee(who replaced
Churchill) and Stalin
Truman threatened Stalin with a very
powerful weapon (the atomic bomb)
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Q: Name 4 events that
escalated the Cold War
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The Manhattan Project
Satellite Nations
R:
Dropping the bombs on
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Check Point Charlie
The Berlin Blockade
the Berlin Wall
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Q: What was the name of the
atomic bomb that was first
tested on US soil?
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R: Trinity
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Q: Who developed the atomic
bomb?
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R: Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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Q: Name the bomb dropped on
Hiroshima and the one dropped on
Nagasaki:
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R: Hiroshima- Little Boy
Nagasaki – Fat Man
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Q: What was Detente?
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R: An international agreement to
ease tensions b/t the two
superpowers in the 1970s
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Q: Who changed the social and
economic reforms in
Russia, leading to the end
of the USSR and Berlin
Wall?
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R: Gorbachav
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Q: When did the USSR fall?
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R: 1991
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Q: Why did NATO form and
what was its’ purpose?
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Why? Because the UN due to permanent
members having veto power, they were
unable to get involved.
Purpose: To protect Western Europe from the
Soviet Union
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Q:
Who said the following and who was
he saying it to?
“Mr. ______________, tear down that wall!”
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Who said it: Ronald Reagan
He said it to Gorbachev.
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Q: Why was the Berlin Wall
built in 1961?
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R: The blockade failed and economy
declining due to so many East
Germans fleeing to W. Berlin.
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• What was the goal of the U.S.
throughout the Cold War?
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• Stop the spread of Communism.
= Containment – Truman
Doctrine
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• Besides spreading Communism,
what was the other goal of the
Soviet Union during the Cold
War?
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• Create a buffer zone of friendly
(Communist) countries in
Eastern Europe to make it harder
for any country to invade.
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Name 3 big differences between
Capitalism and communism.
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• Look at notes
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Who said the following and
explain what it means:
“From each according to his
abilities, to each according to his
needs.”
How much?
Q: Describe a key difference between the
leadership of Stalin, Khrushchev,
and Gorbachev
• A:
Stalin- Secret Police,
Power hungry dictator, wanted to
spread communism, extreme
censorship
• Krushchev: destalinization,
continued maintaining wall
• Gorbachev: Tore down wall,
more democratic tendencies
Final Jeopardy
• The Spokes person gets to make
up any question they want.
– Tell them the subject and give each
team time to make
– a wager…$0-$ what they have so
far.
Final Jeopardy