Cold War Quiz Ch. 17.1

Quiz Guidelines You need to write the question and the answer on your paper. Example: Q1: blah blah blah blah blah A1: The correct answer

Q1 What was the Yalta Conference?

Q2 Who were the “Big 3” leaders who attended the Yalta Conference and which countries did they represent?

Q3 What is the United Nations?

Q4 What does the phrase “iron curtain” signify and who created the phrase?

Q5 What is the policy of containment?

Q6 What was the Truman Doctrine? (Hint: It has to do with what Harry Truman likes to eat…)

Q7 What was the Marshall Plan?

Q8 What was the Berlin Airlift?

Q9 What was NATO?

Q10 What was the Warsaw Pact?

Q11 Define the Cold War.

Q12 What does the term brinkmanship mean?

Q13 How were the Arms Race and Space Race similar?

Q14 What was the world’s largest bomb ever to be detonated and which country created it?

Q15 What are ICBMs?

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A1 What was the Yalta Conference? – A meeting amongst world leaders to discuss post- war reorganization of Europe.

A2 Who were the “Big 3” leaders who attended the Yalta Conference and which countries did they represent? – Winston Churchill (Great Britain) – Joseph Stalin (USSR) – FDR (United States)

A3 What is the United Nations? – An international organization created to promote peace and cooperation

A4 What does the phrase “iron curtain” signify and who created the phrase? – Iron Curtain was to express the division between communist and non-communist countries in Europe. It was coined by Winston Churchill.

A5 What is the policy of containment? – The act of preventing (or containing) the spread of Communism to other nations.

A6 What was the Truman Doctrine? (Hint: It has to do with what Harry Truman likes to eat…) – President Truman’s foreign policy plan to give aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent free nations from falling to Communism.

A7 What was the Marshall Plan? – The United States’ plan to give aid to foreign countries (Europe and even offered to Communist Countries) in order to rebuild war-torn Europe and, again, to stop the spread of Communism.

A8 What was the Berlin Airlift? – When the US conducted airlifts to drop supplies to East Germany who were cut off from the Western half of Europe due to the Berlin Blockade.

A9 What was NATO? – North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a military alliance between non-communist Western Nations.

A10 What was the Warsaw Pact? – A military alliance between Communist countries in order to answer the threat of the NATO alliance.

A11 Define the Cold War. – An era of political and military tension from between the United States and the USSR. Can also be described as an era of competition for political and military influence and superiority between the USA and the USSSR.

A12 What does the term brinkmanship mean? – The practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the best possible advantage.

A13 How were the Arms Race and Space Race similar? – Both were a series of competitive eras for technological superiority between the USA and USSR.

A14 What was the world’s largest bomb ever to be detonated and which country created it? – The TSAR Bomba (or King of All Bombs). It was created by the USSR.

A15 What are ICBMs? – Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles