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The Cold War
Review
World History
Which four countries occupied
Germany following World War II?
Britain,
France, the
United States, and the
Soviet Union
Why did President Truman
give economic and military
aid to Greece and Turkey?
They were resisting
communist takeovers.
What did the Warsaw Pact and
NATO have in common?
Both were
military pacts.
Why was a wall built in
Berlin?
To prevent citizens
from
Eastern Germany (East Berlin)
from escaping to the west.
Why did the Soviet Union
invade its own ally,
Czechoslovakia?
 Because the
Czech leader, Alexander
Dubcek, tried to loosen his country
from strict Soviet control
This is an alliance between the
United States, Canada, and
ten Western European
nations.
NATO:
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
This was an alliance between
the Soviet Union and its
Eastern European allies.
The Warsaw
Pact
This is an organization of
nations set up after World
War II, including both of
the superpowers.
The
United Nations
This is an economic aid package
designed to give European
nations aid needed to rebuild
after World War II.
The
Marshall Plan
I am the communist leader of
Cuba who during the Bay of
Pigs Invasion.
Fidal
Castro
The Policy of lessening Cold
War tensions
Detente
This President was the first to
visit communist China
Richard
Nixon
What is the time period called
to describe the tension
between the U.S. and the
USSR?
The
Cold War
When the Soviet Union cut off
supplies to West Berlin the
U.S. did what?
Flew
in supplies
This outlined the U.S. foreign
policy of containment
The Truman
Doctrine
This term was used by Winston
Churchill to represent the
division between a mostly
democratic Western Europe and a
Communist Eastern Europe
The
“Iron Curtain”
Who was Kim Il Sung?
Leader of
North Korea
He was the original
commander of the United
Nations forces in the Korean
War
Douglas
MacArthur
When Israel was created, Arab
nations responded by doing
what?
Declaring
war
The strategy of the United States
to train South Vietnamese troops
to defend themselves - and at the
same time begin removing
American troops out of Vietnam
Vietnamization
The students who were killed
in Tiananmen Square were
protesting the Chinese
government’s…
Lack
of political freedom
Who was the first American
president to visit
Communist China was
Richard
Nixon
Which two groups fought a
civil war in China both
before and after WW II?
Communists and
Nationalists
The Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) program
was backed by which
President?
Ronald
Reagan
Which parallel was Korea
divided?
38th