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Cold War Jeopardy
Post WWII
World
Origins of
the Cold
War
Potpourri
Cold War
Events
Fall of
Communism
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Post WWII World – 100
Peace keeping organization formed in
1945 and still exists today.
What is the United Nations?
Post WWII World – 200
Conference attended by the original “Big
Three” that discussed plans for peace
after the war including the creation of the
United Nations.
What was the Yalta Conference?
Post WWII World – 300
Problem with the Denazification Program.
What was Germany’s economy suffered and
some of the Nazi’s remained in positions
of power?
Post WWII World – 400
Conference that established the groundwork
for the postwar settlement with Germany, but
also resulted in major disagreements
between President Truman and Stalin
regarding free elections in Eastern Europe.
What was the Potsdam Conference?
Post WWII World – 500
Council that governed Germany following
the war that seldom agreed on policies.
What was the Allied Control Council?
Origins of the Cold War – 100
Structural differences between the
Soviet Union and United States.
What was the Soviet Union was communist,
while the United States was a capitalistic
democracy?
Origins of the Cold War – 200
Disagreement between the United States
and Soviet Union during WWII that led to
tension between the two Allies.
What was the Soviet’s signing of the nonaggression pact with Germany, the United
States’ failure to open up a second front
in Europe and the U.S. not telling the
Soviet Union about the atomic bomb?
Origins of the Cold War – 300
Reason Stalin wanted control of Eastern
Europe.
What was to spread communism, but
also to create a buffer zone for
protection from a future invasion?
Origins of the Cold War – 400
U.S. plan for economic relief and recovery
for all nations of Europe following WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Origins of the Cold War – 500
Describe the Truman Doctrine.
What was President Truman’s statement to
help free people throughout the world that are
resisting takeovers from armed minorities or
outside pressures?
Potpourri – 100
Main alliance of the United States during
the Cold War.
What was NATO?
Potpourri – 200
Main alliance of the Soviet Union during
the Cold War.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Potpourri – 300
Soviet leader from 1955-1964 during many
of the intense events of the Cold War.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
Potpourri – 400
Resulted from the Soviet Union’s blockade
of Berlin. Recognized as the first showdown
between the U.S. and Soviet Union during
the Cold War that could have led to a major
war.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Potpourri – 500
Soviet doctrine that stated that the Soviet
Union would intervene in satellite nations
affairs if they attempted to break away
from communism.
What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
Cold War Events – 100
Main reason the East Germans built the
Berlin Wall.
What was to stop East Germans from fleeing
to West Berlin (West Germany)?
Cold War Events – 200
The closest point during the Cold War in
which the United States and Soviet Union
were to an actual war (nuclear war).
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Cold War Events – 300
First major war during the Cold War.
What was the Korean War?
Cold War Events – 400
Main reason why the United States fought
wars in Korea and Vietnam during the
Cold War.
What was to stop the spread of
communism?
Cold War Events – 500
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957
leading to the space race. Besides the
embarrassment of being technologically
behind the Soviet Union, what about the
launching of Sputnik really scared the U.S.?
What was if the Soviet Union can launch
something into space, they can also launch a
nuclear bomb to the U.S.?
Fall of Communism – 100
The Soviet Union’s version of Vietnam.
What was their war with Afghanistan?
Fall of Communism – 200
The Soviet Union and United States were
involved in an intense arms race in order to
maintain their relative strength with each
other, what negative consequence did the
arms race have on the Soviet Union?
What was it placed unneeded strains
on the Soviet economy that made it
difficult to recover?
Fall of Communism – 300
Last leader of the Soviet Union that
initiated reforms that eventually led to the
break-up of the Soviet Union.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
Fall of Communism – 400
Define Perestroika.
What is economic and government
restructuring?
Fall of Communism – 500
How did glasnost lead to the fall of Communism
in Eastern Europe?
What was Glasnost in the Soviet Union led to
a loosening of Soviet control over E. Europe and
to greater ability for E. European nation to
openly resist and criticize Soviet rule. This
would eventually lead to the creation of
democratic governments in E. Europe?