Cold War 1Cold War 2Cold War 3Cold War 4 Just For Fun

Question At Yalta, the leaders agreed to recognize the Polish government that the Soviets had set up if Stalin agreed to do what?

Answer 1 – 10 Hold free elections as soon as possible.

Question What policy did George Kennan urge the U.S. to adopt in response to communism?

Answer 1 – 20 Containment

Question How did the Allies respond to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin?

Answer 1 – 30 Berlin Airlift

Question What did the Rosenbergs do?

Answer 1 – 40 Gave atomic secrets to the Soviets

Question What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 1 – 50 Gave economic aid to Western Europe to prevent them from turning to communism.

Question Who fought in the Korean War?

Answer 2 – 10 United Nations (U.S.), South Korea, North Korea and China

Question What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 2 – 20 NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization. U.S. and democratic nations. Warsaw Pact – Soviet Union and communist nations.

Question What was the “Iron Curtain”?

Answer 2 – 30 The bloc of communist satellite nations in Eastern Europe that separated the Soviet Union from the democracies in Western Europe.

Question Describe how the Berlin Airlift was an example of containment.

Answer 2 – 40 Stalin wanted to force NATO out of West Berlin so that communists could take over. U.S. and Britain airlifted supplies to maintain their presence in West Berlin.

Question How did the U.S. respond when the Soviets started placing nuclear missiles in Cuba?

Answer 2 – 50 Blockaded Cuba Agreed not to invade Quietly removed our missiles from Turkey

Question Who started the second red scare when he claimed that communist spies had infiltrated the U.S. government?

Answer 3 – 10 Senator Joseph McCarthy

Question What was the U-2 incident?

Answer 3 – 20 Soviets shot down an American spy plane. Pilot - Francis Gary Powers

Question What was Eisenhower’s policy of going to the edge of war to force the other side to back down called?

Answer 3 – 30 Brinkmanship

Question Who wrote the “long telegram” and came up with the idea of containment?

Answer 3 – 40 George Kennan

Question How did Ronald Reagan help to win the Cold War?

Answer 3 – 50 Arms Race with the Soviet Union – Soviet economy collapses.

Question What was the era of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union called?

Answer 4 – 10 The Cold War

Question “We cannot defend the nation in a way which will exhaust our economy.... [The United States] must be prepared to use atomic weapons in all forms.” Who probably said this?

Answer 4 – 20

Question What is the Military Industrial Complex?

Answer 4 – 30 Relationship between the military (government) and the defense industry.

Question Who was the first man on the moon?

Answer 4 – 40 Neil Armstrong

Question What were the first words spoken on the moon?

Answer 4 – 50

Question What was the name of the mission that landed the first man on the moon?

Answer 5 – 10

Question How many people watched the first moon landing on television?

Answer 5 – Million

Question What are Russian astronauts called?

Answer 5 – 30 Cosmonauts

Question Who was the second man to set foot on the moon?

Answer 5 – 40 Buzz Aldrin

Question Who had to stay with the Columbia while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin completed their 2 hour and 36 minute moonwalk?

Answer 5 – 50 Michael Collins… poor guy