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Cold War
Updated 2011
Directions: On my website, students should use the PowerPoint on the Cold War and
classroom discussion to answer the questions below.
1. Who were the allies of World War II? Axis?
2. Why were the Soviets apart of the Allied powers?
3. How long was the Cold War? Who was the Cold War between?
Site THREE ways Stalin was Aggressive in Europe after World War II,
which created tension between The United States and The Soviet Union.
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4. What does the term “Iron Curtain” refer to?
5. Why affect does China turning communist in 1949 have on the Cold War? What
other country in Asia is communist?
6. What two countries at the time have atomic bombs? Why might other countries be
worried?
5. What was the space race?
6. How many died during Stalin’s rule? What might this say about Stalin?
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