Cold War Unit Review

These are examples of:

What do the light beige-colored countries represent?

Which war is considered the beginning of the Cold War?

What is it called when two powers fight in a third place and don't directly fight?

How did the US respond to the Soviet space competition?

What is M.A.D.?

What was the central, ideological conflict of the Cold War?

what is the message of this political cartoon?

Which Western European country was split up at the beginning of the Cold War before NATO was established?

What is containment?

Mutual protection between Communist satellite states was known as the...

Which US president is associated with the doctrine of containment?

Which US president is associated with the Domino Theory?

A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside the U.S. government and society in the years following World War II was:

The invisible dividing line between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic/Capitalist Western Europe

The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control

Who aided the North Koreans in their fight to control the entire Korean Peninsula?

The Red Scare was...

Which three numbers represent Communist countries during the Cold War?

Which sentence is correct?

What was formed to mutually defend Western Europe?

Which event brought the US & USSR to the brink of nuclear war?

To prevent the spread of communism by boosting European economies the US provided goods and $$$ through what???

What impact did the Cold War have on the world??

When did the Cold War end?

Three of the following events happened after the U.S. pulled all troops from Vietnam. Which one did not happen?

The United States sent troops to help South Vietnam

When North and South Korea ended the Korean War, where did they agree would be the border?

The Space Race was between

Which term describes the post-World War 2 era known for spreading the fear that "communist spies" were trying to overthrow the government?

Gorbachev introduced this, which means restructuring

Gorbachev introduced this, which means openness

Glasnost was about connecting to and being open to the west

Perestroika was about competing with the west to be "first" in science and technology

superpowers used their assets and agencies to influence the political development of smaller countries.

proxy wars and foreign meddling were NOT to blame for devastating effects for the locals, or bringing to power leaders who were undemocratic, dictatorial, brutal, and corrupt.

is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict.

COMECON is the association of communist economies

Comintern is the international coalition to prevent international communist communications

This organization was created to prevent communism from gaining ground in SE Asia, and trying to control its resources.

The Geneva Convention of 1954 was meant to restabilize South East Asia after this colony was ended.

This identified Stalin as a villain:

Which 3 of these were Cold War Crises?

Reagan started a program called what, to establish nuclear capacity in space?

the practice of denying employment to anyone, but especially entertainment industry professionals believed to be or to have been Communists or sympathizers...not just actors, but screenwriters, directors, & musicians.

The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime

Under Truman, these were to be set up in every part of the federal government. Using lists of “totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive” organizations

J Edgar Hoover was the head of what organization, that sought to undermine any and all communist behaviors in the USA, or falsely accuse civil rights leaders to doing so:

This US organization facilitated covert operations all over the world during the Cold War. Many of these were specifically carried out in order to suppress communism, but others suppressed anything that would prevent US interests.

All of these were considered WHAT, during the Cold War: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua

This US president is associated with "Massive Retaliation" during the Cold War

This US president is associated with the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps during the Cold War:

This US president is associated with major increases in US involvement in the VIetnam War including a major bombing campaign in Laos during the Cold War:

This US president is associated with humanitarian aid and trying to improve relations with foreign countries during the Cold War:

This US president is associated with focusing mostly on domestic civil rights during the Cold War:

A post-Cold War perspective on the Cold War is that the Soviet Union's aggression, starting with Stalin, was to blame.

A revisionist view of the Cold War is that the US and the USSR were both to blame, and the US was unnecessarily belligerent and hostile.

An orthodox view of the Cold War is that neither superpower was wholly or mostly responsible but that complex factors were at play.

an orthodox perspective on the Cold War was that ultimately it was about competing ideologies and ideas about security that were in conflict.