Cold War 5.23

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Categorize

Options (6)

Western Europe

Democratic

Eastern Europe

Communist

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Organize these options into the right categories of the two super powers during the Cold War.

United States

Soviet Union

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Categorize

Options (4)

"We should work closely with the Americans and the British to rebuild Germany."

"I do not like the Soviet Union having control over Germany territory."

"The government should be in charge of the economy."

"Their is no need for elections in our society."

Organize these options into the right categories - what people might say that lived in West Germany or East Germany.

West Germany

East Germany

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Open Ended

Name one of the Cold War policies that the United States used and explain what it did.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7YE-N448fg

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Drag and Drop

The Berlin wall separated the Soviet Union zone from the Western zones of the U.S, France, and Britain? _

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

False

True

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The Berlin Wall was erected in

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The Berlin wall was built to keep citizens of East Berlin from defecting or emigrating to West Berlin?

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True

False

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The Berlin wall still divides the city of Berlin today.

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False

True

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgGasq4eCks

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEvCNZymo

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Match

Match the following

1957 - first satellite

1961 - first man in space

1969 - first moon landing

Apollo 11 crew

Neil Armstrong's

quote

Soviet's Sputnik 1

Soviet's Yuri Gagarin

America's Apollo 11

Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin

Michael Collins

"First small step for man...for mankind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMoIu_hRuAA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAi7RyR0qac

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Multiple Choice

Who was in power in Cuba in 1959?

Fulgencio Batista

Fidel Castro

Nikita Khrushchev

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was a resistance movement formed from Cuban exiles to try and overthrow Castro.

Multiple Choice

Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

John K Kennedy

Franklin D Roosevelt

Fidel Castro

Richard Nixon

Multiple Choice

Eventually the Soviets were forced to move out their nuclear weapons out of Cuba. What compromise did the United States make?

give up military bases in Turkey

send back all Cuban exiles

remove nuclear weapons in Turkey

take down spy satellites in space

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