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Cold War Vocab #coldwarvocab #coldwar7thgrade
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A weapon hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs used during World War II...
Hydrogen Bomb
Plutonium Bomb
Uranium Bomb
Death Star
2
The post WWII international organization made up of countries from around the world...
United Nations
Justice League
League of Nations
NATO
3
The struggle for global power and influence between the United States and the Soviet Union:
Arms Race
Imperialism
Red Scare
Cold War
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The first major event in the Cold War:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Chinese Revolution
Korean War
Berlin Blockade
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Preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influences around the world:
Arms Race
Containment
Iron Curtain
Red Scare
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War on as Asian peninsula; first proxy war/conflict of the Cold War:
Vietnam War
Afghanistan
Suez Crisis
Korean War
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Official position held by Igor Gouzenko at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa:
Cipher Clerk
Spy
Coder/Decoder
Ambassador
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Standoff between the US/USSR over the placement of nuclear weapons in the western hemisphere:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Blockade
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Canada, the U.S. and 10 European countries who joined together in 1949 to defend each other:
United Natons
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
NATO
10
The Canada-Russia Summit Series led to...
improved relations between the two countries
the fall of the "iron curtain"
professionals in the Olympics
a loss of Canadian pride/sense of nationalism
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U.S. policy that provided economic aid/assistance to Europe to help fight communism...
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
12
Canadian Lester Pearson played a key roll in solving the Suez Crisis by proposing...
a UN "peacekeeping" force
a UN boycott
a UN "police action"
a UN embargo
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The barrier that divided the capital city of Germany between east and west, from 1961 to 1989:
Berlin Curtain
Iron Curtain
Iron Wall
Berlin Wall
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This western ally from World War II became a communist country shortly after the War:
Vietnam
Russia
China
Soviet Union
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Korea is the first (and only!) example of the U.N. _____________.
allowing war to take place
sending peacekeepers
going to war
taking sides
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The man who led the communists to victory in China:
Mao
Nasser
Kim
Rhee
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Cold War armed conflict where the U.N. and the South fought the communist North...
Vietnam War
Suez War
Chinese Revolution
Korean War
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American policy designed to stop the spread of communism anywhere in the world:
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Containment
Domino Theory
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The Suez Crisis took place in...
China
Korea
Israel
Egypt
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The symbolic division of Europe into communist and capitalist sections:
Cold War
Berlin Wall
Iron Wall
Iron Curtain