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WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR
WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR
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1
True or False - The moral line of the Cold War never changed. It was always about FREEDOM VS TYRANNY
True
False
2
Which person DID NOT contribute to the end of the Cold War?
Ronald Reagan
Pope John Paul II
Bill Clinton
Margaret Thatcher
3
True or False - Stalin took on the United States directly in armed combat.
True
False
4
Who said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an IRON CURTAIN has descended across the continent?"
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
USSR Dictator Josef Stalin
US Pres. Harry Truman
5
True or False - The instigator of the Cold War was Josef Stalin.
False
True
6
Why was it called the "COLD" war?
The "HOT WAR" was already taken
It was fought in the Soviet Union where it's cold
The Soviet Union and Americans never came to direct blows
It was fought in the winter
7
What did Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor, say about the West?
Let's make a treaty.
Remember World War 1.
We will bury you!
I am your father!
8
Which country was NOT involved in the Cold War?
Korea
Cuba
Vietnam
Switzerland
9
Stalin was the dictator of Russia which was also called the...
The Fatherland
The Galactic Empire
The Motherland
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
10
True or False - The Cold War was ONLY fought covertly.
True
False
11
Was negotiation, also called "detente", leading to a just conclusion of the war?
No
Don't choose this one either
Yes
Don't choose this answer
12
The Soviets could not be appeased, only what?
Bought
Bribed
Defeated
Contained
13
Stalin broke his promise to remove his troops from Eastern Europe. Where did he make that promise?
On the beach
Yalta Conference
The Vatican
United Nations
14
For the next five decades, and across four continents, the US and the Soviet Union battled for what?
Prisoners
Influence
Land
Gold
15
Name of the policy: The United States and its allies would not permit any further expansion of the communist empire.
Truman Doctrine
Anti-Stalin Doctrine
Westward Expansion
Cold War Policy
16
What do we call the nearly half-century-long struggle between the US & Western European allies and the Soviet Union?
World War 1
The Cold War
Allies vs USSR War
World War 2
17
Just like WW2, the Cold War was a death match between what 2 forces?
Freedom and totalitarianism
The US and Germany
Truman and Hitler
The Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire
18
George Kennan said that the US would have to do what in order to gain the Kremlin's trust?
Pay them one million dollars
Become a communist country
Truman would have to literally bow down to Krushchev
Return all Soviet prisoners
19
True or False - There is proof that the ambitions of the Soviets & the American defense build-up were not exaggerated.
True
False
20
True or Fales - By the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had failed economically, politically, and morally.
True
False