Cold War (Benchmark #5 Review)

The second nation to detonate the atomic bomb after America in WWII

The Berlin Wall had many fortifications to discourage those trying to escape, such as...

Tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one's opposition to retreat

The following is true about Communist East Berlin (Germany) controlled by the Soviets except...

Russian word that means restructuring-allow for economic freedoms to USSR

The process of gathering information about an enemy through secret operations is called

Countries on the brink of falling to Communists, like Vietnam all others would quickly follow

A war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved

The fear and hysteria that caused thousands to be accused of being communist/spy in America

What year did the Soviet Union break up?

Truman Doctrine sent economic aid to Greece and Turkey. What did U.S. expect in return?

Opposition to the war in Vietnam grew in part due to

In 1948, the four occupying nations in Germany decide to divide the area into____ :

What was one of the primary causes of the Cold War?

The purpose of the UN is to bring all nations of the world together to work for what?

All of these are apart of the Cold War ideological struggle except...

As a result of the Korean War

U.S. intervention in the Korean and Vietnam War was a direct result of

This was the only couple that was tried and executed for espionage during the Cold War.

The belief that the United States had to prevent Communism from spreading

___ wanted 2 invade China through North Korea; was 4 using nuclear weapons on communist nations

Germany unifies again as a country in 1990 after the fall of the__________.

The Korean War began in 1950 when:

What was the Marshall Plan intended to do

The communist leader of Cuba for the first time in the Western Hemisphere was called

Which goal best describes the USSR's intentions after World War II

The Soviet Afghan War was consider their "_______," like it was for America

He gave a speech called "I am a Berliner" approving the construction of the Berlin Wall (1961)

The failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs resulted in

Easing or lessening- thawing out during the Cold War between US and USSR

Limitation talks- signed by US and USSR that limited nuclear arsenals

Winston Churchill described the ideological conflict of Western and Eastern Europe as an "___."

What was the name of the spy plane that Francis Powers was shot down in called?

Russian word that means openness-allowing some freedom of expression and speech

The cultural revolution was an attempt by Chinese citizens to establish what?

The first major international crisis of the Cold War that blocked Western Allies transportation

At the end of World War II, Germany was broken up into four zones. Who had control?

In Thirteen Days, this group of advisers helped the president make decisions

In 1962 President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba in order to

The intelligence gathering "Committee of National Security" for Russia is called

Senator_______ led trials accusing people in America for being Communist or Soviet spies

The covert intelligence gathering branch of the U.S. is called the

USA’s policy to keep communism from spreading

These were called Communist puppet governments in Europe

When the Western Powers joined their threeportions of Germany, the Soviet Union

A tendency of states and people in competition to perceive each other similarly.

East Germany built the___(1961), a final effort to cut off West Berlin from rest of East Berlin

Truman responded to Berlin Blockade by Stalin with the___, flying supplies into West Berlin.

Competition between two or more parties to have best best armed forces and weapons

For the United States, the main success of the Korean War was that