Cold War Unit Review
1. Where was the conference held near the end of WWII where Stalin, FDR, and Churchill agreed
on many of the postwar issues?
Yalta
2. What was the name of the college and the town in which it was located where Winston
Churchill gave his famous speech?
Fulton, MO, Westminster College
3. Name the two cities Churchill used as the starting and ending points of the Iron Curtain.
Stettin (in the Baltic) Trieste (Adriatic)
4. What is the name given to describe the ideological struggle between the U.S. and it’s allies
versus the S.U. and it’s allies?
Cold War
5. Name the two countries that needed help in 1947 to keep communism from taking control of
their governments.
Greece and Turkey
6. What was ironic about the language of the Truman Doctrine?
It contradicted the American Revolution
7. What was Truman’s basic philosophy for ‘fighting’ the Cold War?
Containment
8. What was the name of the American foreign service employee who wrote a letter that basically
convinced Truman to choose a policy of containment? George F. Kennan
9. What were the four nations that divided Germany to help it rebuild after WWII?
Great Britain, France, U.S., Soviet Union
10. What was the more commonly known name for the European Recovery Plan that gave billions
of dollars of economic aid to 16 Western European nations? Marshall Plan
11. What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organizatioin
12. What did Stalin form to counter NATO?
Warsaw Pact
13. What was the nickname for the American pilot who dropped candy bars to the Berlin children?
Chocolate Uncle
14. What two very significant Cold War events occurred in 1949?
China went communist, S.U. tests nuke
15. Who are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council?
U.S., S.U., G.B., France, China
16. What power does each of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have?
Veto
17. Who was the leader of North Korea when it invaded South Korea?
Kim Il Sung
18. Name one of the famous battles of the Korean War?
Pusan, Inchon, Chosin Reservoir, Porkchop Hill
19. Give either name for the border between North and South Korea.
38th Parallel, DMZ
20. Truman named this general to be in charge of U.S. soldiers in Korea, then fired him.
Douglas MacArthur
21. What did President Eisenhower say would give America “more bang for the buck”?
nuclear weapons
22. What was the name of the policy that Ike believed was the best way to prevent the Soviet Union
from trying to expand its area of influence?
Massive retaliation
23. World War III almost began in 1955 when the Egyptians nationalized this facility in their
country?
Suez Canal
24. Name one of the two countries where covert operations prevented pro-American governments
from being ousted during Ike’s presidency?
Iran and Guatemala
25. What was the name of the first successful satellite launched in space?
Sputnik
26. What was the name of the agency designed to help the U.S. win the ‘Space Race?’
NASA
27. What was the term given to President Kennedy’s approach to fighting the Cold War?
Flexible response
28. What was the name of a Kennedy program designed to help other countries and improve the
American image around the world?
Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress
29. This visible symbol of the Cold War was erected in 1961 to stop people who were escaping
from Soviet-controlled territory into ‘free’ territory. Berlin Wall
30. Inside the American sphere of influence, this nation became communist-led in 1959. Cuba
31. What was the name of the scary situation for 13 days in October of 1962 that almost caused
World War III?
Cuban Missile Crisis
32. Who was the leader of the Veitminh and later North Vietnam? Ho Chi Minh
33. What was the name of the guerilla fighters for the communist government in Vietnam?
Vietcong
34. What was the dividing line between North and South Vietnam agreed upon in the Geneva
Accords?
17th Parallel
35. President Johnson asked for and received a blank check for Vietnam in what action of
Congress?
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
36. What was the name given to the theory that if one country ‘fell’ to communism, its neighboring
countries were more likely to ‘fall’ also?
Domino theory
37. What was the name used to describe those in America who favored staying and fighting in
Vietnam?
Hawks
38. What was the event that began turning the majority of Americans against continued involvement
in the Vietnam War?
Tet Offensive
39. What was President Nixon’s plan to get American troops out of Vietnam? Veitnamization
40. What is the term that describes President Nixon’s attempt to improve relations with the Soviet
Union?
Détente
41. What was the name given to Nixon’s attempts to develop better relations with China?
Ping-pong diplomacy
42. Who was Nixon’s trusted foreign policy expert and eventual Secretary of State?
Henry Kissinger
43. What was the name of the agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that came out of
the Moscow Summit of 1972?
SALT (strategic arms limitation treaty)
44. President Carter attempted to coerce the Soviet Union to stop its invasion of Afghanistan by
doing three things. Name two of them.
Grain embargo, Boycott Olympics,
Threaten full U.S. response (nukes)
45. Carter tried to have a different approach to foreign policy, emphasizing what idea?
Human rights
46. What was President Reagan’s new term for the Soviet Union? Evil Empire
47. What was the nickname for Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative? Star Wars
48. Through which country did Reagan’s government pass weapons to the mujahedeen?
Pakistan
49. What was the name of the Soviet premier who began to reform the Soviet Union and end the
Cold War?
Mikhail Gorbachev
50. What “event” symbolized the ending of the Cold War? The tearing down of the Berlin Wall