1. February 26 th This day in history: – 1952: PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb Learning Target – I can identify important aspects of the Cold War. Opener: – Which event, person or aspect of the Cold War was the most interesting to you? Why?

2. People (mostly) Events Home Front VocabularyMisc. 10 20 30 40 50

3. Final Jeopardy Category: Origins of the Cold War

4. Final Jeopardy The Truman Doctrine was created in response to communist rebellions in which two countries?

5. Closure Reflect – Why was the Cold War significant?

6. People - 10 Who was the U.S. President at the beginning of the Cold War?

7. People – 10 Harry Truman

8. People - 20 Which President favored the use of massive retaliation and brinksmanship to fight the Soviet Union?

9. People – 20 Dwight Eisenhower

10. People - 30 Name BOTH candidates in the 1960 Presidential election.

11. People – 30 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

12. People - 40 Who replaced Stalin as head of the Soviet Union in 1953?

13. People – 40 Nikita Krushchev

14. People - 50 What was the name of the dog that sent to space by the Soviet Union on Sputnik 2?

15. People – 50 Laika

16. Events - 10 In 1948, what action did the Soviet Union take to try to conquer Berlin?

17. Events – 10 The Berlin Blockade

18. Events - 20 What was the first “hot” war in the Cold War?

19. Events – 20 The Korean War

20. Events - 30 What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?

21. Events – 30 Invasion attempt led by CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro, dictator of Cuba

22. Events - 40 In what country did the Suez crisis occur?

23. Events – 40 Egypt (Suez Canal)

24. Events- 50 When did the Soviet Union test its first atomic bomb?

25. Events – 50 (September) 1949

26. Home Front- 10 What was the Red Scare?

27. Home Front – 10 Fear of communists taking over the U.S.

28. Home Front - 20 What was the job of the Civil Defense Administration?

29. Home Front – 20 Prepare the U.S. for nuclear attack

30. Home Front- 30 What famous couple was executed after being accused of being a Soviet spy?

31. Home Front – 30 The Rosenbergs

32. Home Front - 40 What organization did Congress create to investigate possible communists?

33. Home Front – 40 House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

34. Home Front - 50 What event led to Joseph McCarthy’s fall from power?

35. Home Front – 50 Televised accusations against the U.S. Army

36. Vocabulary - 10 What is an arms race?

37. Vocabulary – 10 Competition between two countries to build up the most and the best weapons

38. Vocabulary - 20 What’s the difference between a treaty and an armistice?

39. Vocabulary – 20 A treaty is a permanent end to a war. An armistice is a temporary stop in the fighting.

40. Vocabulary - 30 What was the Truman Doctrine?

41. Vocabulary – 30 The U.S. commitment to aiding countries fighting communism.

42. Vocabulary - 40 What is McCarthyism?

43. Vocabulary – 40 Wild and unproven accusations of disloyalty (or communism)

44. Vocabulary - 50 What was brinksmanship?

45. Vocabulary – 50 U.S. strategy during the Cold War in which we remained on the edge of war to discourage communist aggression

46. Miscellaneous- 10 What was the “Iron Curtain”?

47. Miscellaneous – 10 Dividing line between capitalist Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe

48. Miscellaneous - 20 How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?

49. Miscellaneous – 20 Soviets agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for U.S. removing missiles from Turkey

50. Miscellaneous - 30 What alliance did the U.S. form to combat the Soviet Union?

51. Miscellaneous – 30 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

52. Miscellaneous - 40 What was the Civil Defense Administration's mascot?

53. Miscellaneous – 40 Bert the Turtle

54. Miscellaneous - 50 Who was John Foster Dulles?

55. Miscellaneous – 50 Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, Creator of brinksmanship strategy