1.
Where was the conference held near
the end of WWII where Stalin, FDR, and
Churchill agreed on many of the postwar
issues?
2.
What was the name of the college and
the town in which it was located where
Winston Churchill gave his famous speech?
3. Name the two cities Churchill used as the
starting and ending points of the Iron
Curtain.
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?
5. Name the two countries that
needed help in 1947 to keep
communism from taking control of their
governments.
6. What was ironic about the
language of the Truman Doctrine?
"It must be the policy of the United
States to support free peoples who
are resisting attempted subjugation
by armed minorities or by outside
pressures."
7. What was Truman’s basic
philosophy for ‘fighting’ the Cold War?
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?
9. What were the four nations that divided
Germany to help it rebuild after WWII?
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?
11. What does NATO stand for?
12. What did Stalin form to counter NATO?
13. What was the nickname for the
American pilot who dropped candy
bars to the Berlin children?
14. What two very significant Cold War
events occurred in 1949?
15. Who are the five permanent
members of the UN Security Council?
16. What power does each of the five
permanent members of the UN
Security Council have?
17. Who was the leader of North Korea
when it invaded South Korea?
18. Name one
of the famous
battles of the
Korean War?
19. Give either name for the border
between North and South Korea.
20. Truman named this general to be in
charge of U.S. soldiers in Korea, then fired
him.
21. What did President Eisenhower say
would give America “more bang for the
buck”?
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?
23. World War III almost began in 1955
when the Egyptians nationalized this
facility in their country?
24. Name one of the two countries where
covert operations prevented proAmerican governments from being
ousted during Ike’s presidency?
25. What was the name of the first
successful satellite launched in space?
26. What was the name of the agency
designed to help the U.S. win the ‘Space
Race?’
27. What was the term given to President
Kennedy’s approach to fighting the Cold
War?
28. What was the name of a Kennedy
program designed to help other countries
and improve the American image
around the world?
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.
30. Inside the American sphere of
influence, this nation became
communist-led in 1959.
31. What was the name of the scary
situation for 13 days in October of 1962
that almost caused World War III?
32. Who was the leader of the Veitminh
and later North Vietnam?
33. What was the name of the guerilla
fighters for the communist government in
Vietnam?
34. What was the dividing line between
North and South Vietnam agreed upon
in the Geneva Accords?
35. President Johnson asked for and
received a blank check for Vietnam in
what action of Congress?
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?
37. What was the name used to describe
those in America who favored staying and
fighting in Vietnam?
38. What was the event that began
turning the majority of Americans against
continued involvement in the Vietnam
War?
39. What was President Nixon’s plan to
get American troops out of Vietnam?
40. What is the term that describes
President Nixon’s attempt to improve
relations with the Soviet Union?
41. What was the name given to Nixon’s
attempts to develop better relations with
China?
42. Who was Nixon’s trusted foreign
policy expert and eventual Secretary
of State?
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?
44. President Carter attempted to coerce
the Soviet Union to stop its invasion of
Afghanistan by doing three things. Name
two of them.
45. Carter tried to have a different
approach to foreign policy, emphasizing
what idea?
46. What was President Reagan’s new
term for the Soviet Union?
47. What was the nickname for Reagan’s
Strategic Defense Initiative?
48. Through which country did Reagan’s
government pass weapons to the
mujahedeen?
49. What was the name of the Soviet
premier who began to reform the Soviet
Union and end the Cold War?
50. What “event” symbolized the ending
of the Cold War?