WORTH:
The Cold War Era
Containment
And Conflict
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500
The Cold War
Heats Up
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500
Decolonization 100
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400
500
The Soviet
Union
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400
500
Eastern
Europe
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500
WORTH:
What were Turkey and Greece?
MAIN
These were the two countries that
Truman asked congress to
support in resisting Communism
in 1947.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Containment and
Conflict
Who was Vyacheslav Molotov?
MAIN
He was Stalin’s foreign minister
who spoke publicly in 1946 that
the western democracies were
the enemies of the Soviet Union.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Containment and
Conflict
What was the Truman Doctrine?
MAIN
This was the speech and
ultimately the policy of the
United States which proposed
the idea of containing the spread
of Communism and containment.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Containment and
Conflict
What was the Berlin Blockade and
airlift ?
MAIN
This was the city that the Soviet
Union sought to seal off and
isolate from the western world
in February 1948.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Containment and
Conflict
What was the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and the Council of
MAIN Mutual Assistance and later in
1955 became the Warsaw Pact?
These were the two opposing
military alliances that formed
in 1949 and marked an
escalation of the Cold War.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Containment and
Conflict
What was the Balfour Declaration?
MAIN
This was the British promise that
favored the establishment of a
Jewish homeland,
unfortunately they also
promised Arabs from Palestine
their own homeland.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Cold War Heats Up
MAIN
What was the Korean War?
This was the conflict that broke
out in June, 1950 and forced the
United Nations and the United
States to intervene and stop the
aggression of Communist troops.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Cold War Heats Up
Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser?
MAIN
He took control of the Suez
Canal in 1956 and
declared war on Israel,
which France and Great
Britain used as an excuse
to invade Egypt.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Cold War Heats Up
What was the “Cuban Missile
MAIN
Crisis” of 1962.
This was the event in 1962
that marked the closest
the world has come to all
out Nuclear War between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Cold War Heats Up
MAIN
What was the Berlin Wall?
This was the structure built
by the Soviet Union that
became the symbol of the
Cold war in 1961 and halted
the flow of refugees from
the Communist east.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Cold War Heats Up
What was Indonesia?
MAIN
This was the area that the Dutch
were forced to abandon in
1949 and the nation that was
created when they left.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Decolonization
What was Angola and Mozambique?
MAIN
These were the two countries in
Africa that the Portuguese finally
abandoned in 1974 and 1975,
and left in a state of political
conflict.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Decolonization
What was the French – Algerian
War ?
MAIN
This was the war that lasted
from 1945 until 1962 and
eventually ends the Fourth
Republic of France and brings
Charles de Gaulle to power.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Decolonization
What were Cyprus in 1960 and
Malta in 1964?
MAIN
These were the two
Mediterranean Islands that
were once part of the British
Empire that demanded
independence after World War
II.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Decolonization
Who were Mohandis Gandhi and the
Indian National Congress, and
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim
League in 1947 ?
MAIN
These were the leaders and
political parties that led
independence movements
against the British after World
War II.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:
Decolonization
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
MAIN
He was the leader of the Soviet
Union during the Cuban Missile
Crisis and succeeded Joseph
Stalin.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: The Soviet Union
What was Hungary and Imre Nagy
who was executed in 1958?
MAIN
This was the country that
revolted from Soviet control in
1956 after being offered U.S.
support only to be abandoned
and left to Soviet retaliation.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: The Soviet Union
What was Sputnik?
MAIN
This was the space satellite that
was launched by the Soviet
Union and seemed to show the
technological advancement of
the communist system.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: The Soviet Union
MAIN
Who was Leonid Brezhnev and
the Brezhnev Doctrine?
He was the leader of the
Soviet Union who replaced
Khrushchev in 1964 and
declared the right to
interfere in the domestic
politics of other communist
countries.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: The Soviet Union
Who was Andrei Sakharov and his
wife Yelena Bonner who were both
jailed ?
MAIN
He was the Soviet scientist who
developed the Soviet hydrogen
bomb and won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1975 and criticized the
government which retaliated by
having him committed to a
mental institution.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: The Soviet Union
MAIN
Who was Slobodan Milosevic
who died in prison in 2006 ?
He was the Serb leader who
initiated ethnic cleansing of
Muslims and Croats in Serbia
and by forced attempted to
maintain a unified
Yugoslavia.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Eastern Europe
What was the Prague Spring?
MAIN
This was the name given to the
Czechoslovakian autonomy
movement in 1968 led by
Alexander Dubcek and quickly
suppressed by the Soviet Union.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Eastern Europe
Who was Lech Walesa and
MAIN
Poland?
This was the country and
leader who led the Solidarity
Movement which helped bring
about the collapse of the
Soviet Union from the city
and shipyards of Gdansk.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Eastern Europe
What was Romania, both him and
his wife were executed on
Romanian television?
MAIN
This was the eastern European
country where violence erupted
when the leader Nicolae
Ceausescu had soldiers fire on
protesting crowds.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Eastern Europe
MAIN
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev,
who was replaced by Boris
Yeltsin in 1992?
He was the leader of the Soviet
Union when it unraveled in
1991 and was almost deposed
in a conservative coup in August
of 1991.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Eastern Europe