Definition: Event where Nazis who took part in the
Holocaust were put on trial
Answer: The Nuremberg Trials
Follow-Up: Why was this event significant
Answer: First time people were put on trial by an
international court
Definition: Aid sent from the US to European countries
after WWII to help them rebuild
Answer: The Marshall Plan
Follow-up: Besides helping to rebuild, what was the other
primary goal of the Marshall Plan?
Answer: To help Western European nations avoid
communism
Definition: Organization created to keep peace after World
War II
Answer: The United Nations
Follow-up: How was the UN different from the league of
nations?
Answer: Was able to take action/ the US was involved/
worked on education and poverty issues
Definition: At the end of WWII, this country was split in
four by the allied powers
Answer: Germany
Follow-up: What four countries controlled a sector of
Germany?
Answer: The US, the USSR, Britain, and France
Definition: A 50 year state of tension between the US and
the USSR
Answer: The Cold War
Follow-up: What made the Cold War different from other
wars?
Answer: The two primary countries did not fight directly
Definition: Effort to bring supplies to the people of West
Berlin
Answer: The Berlin Airlift
Follow-up: Why was the Berlin Airlift necessary?
Answer: Stalin was blockading West Berlin in an effort to
make it become part of communist East Berlin
Definition: This man’s army controlled most of Eastern
Europe at the end of WWII
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Follow-up: What promise did Stalin make that he failed to
keep regarding Eastern Europe?
Answer: To hold elections
Definition: Alliance formed early in the Cold War that
included the US and much of Western Europe
Answer: NATO
Follow-up: What was the goal of NATO?
Answer: To come to each other’s aid if attacked by the
USSR
Definition: This man took over as President after Roosevelt
died
Answer: Harry Truman
Follow-up: What important secret did Truman learn about
upon becoming President?
Answer: The US had developed an atomic bomb
Definition: Metaphorical dividing line between Communist
Eastern Europe and Democratic Western Europe
Answer: The Iron Curtain
Follow-up: Who coined this term?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Definition: Idea that the US would fight the spread of
communism anywhere in the world
Answer: The Truman Doctrine
Follow-up: What countries were coming under the threat
of communism when Truman made this claim
Answer: Greece and Turkey
Definition: Massive concrete barrier between West and
East Berlin
Answer: The Berlin Wall
Follow-up: Why was the wall built?
Answer: To stop East Germans from escaping into West
Germany
Definition: Communist leader of Cuba
Answer: Fidel Castro
Follow-Up: How did Castro come to power?
Answer: He led a revolution, overthrowing the American
backed government
Definition: Leader of the anti-communist movement in
Czechoslovakia
Answer: Vaclav Havel
Follow-up: What position did he gain after communism fell
Answer: Elected president of Czechoslovakia
Definition: Botched attack on Cuba to get rid of Castro
Answer: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Follow-up: What role did the US play?
Answer: Trained Cuban dissidents and provided air
support
Definition: This man led the communist part in China
Answer: Mao Zedong
Follow-up: What did the communists do differently from
the nationalists that allowed them to win?
Answer: They showed the peasants respect and provided
them with services
Definition: Soviet Leader who ordered nuclear weapons to
be stationed in Cuba
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Follow-up: What deal was made to remove these missiles?
Answer: USSR removed missiles from Cuba and the US
removed missiles from Turkey
Definition: Chairman Mao’s attempt to increase industrial
and agricultural production in China
Answer: the Great Leap forward
Follow-up: What was the result?
Answer: Failure and famine
Definition: Soviet leader who promised reform as the USSR
was in decline
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Follow-up: Why was the USSR in decline?
Answer: Afghan war/ spending on costly weapons
systems/ poor performing economy
Definition: This was Mao’s attempt to make sure all people
were following the ideals of the communist revolution
Answer: The Cultural Revolution
Follow-up: What was the punishment for not being
sufficiently communist?
Answer: Public humiliation
Definition: Polish labor union that pushed for an end to
Communism
Answer: Solidarity
Follow-up: Who led this organization?
Answer: Lech Walesa
Definition: A collection of wisdom from Chairman Mao
Answer: The Little Red Book
Follow-up: During what era were you expected to carry
the Little Red Book at all times?
Answer: The Cultural Revolution
Definition: Event that marked the end of divided Germany
Answer: The fall of the Berlin Wall
Follow-up: What year did this event happen?
Answer: 1989
Definition: Leader who took over in China after Mao’s
Death
Answer: Deng Xiaoping
Follow-up: How did Deng Xiaoping change Chinese
society?
Answer: He allowed some capitalism in an attempt to
improve the economy
Definition: These changes allowed some capitalism in
China
Answer: Economic Reforms
Follow-Up: What was the result of these economic
reforms?
Answer: People’s standard of living began to improve
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Definition: This was the location of massive antigovernment protests in China
Answer: Tiananmen Square
Follow-up: How did the government respond to these
protests?
Answer: With a brutal military crack-down
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