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| Who were the two main rivals during the Cold War? |
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| Why was it called the Cold War? |
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| They never directly fought in battle. |
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| What type of government and what type of economy did each one follow? |
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| Democratic, Free Market; Dictatorship, Communist |
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| Who was the first president of the Cold War? What was the name of his policy to combat the Cold War? How did it work? |
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| Harry S. Truman, Containment, Keep Communism inside current boundaries |
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| What is the Marshall Plan and what did it do? |
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| “The World's biggest present”, gave money to any country so they would like us and not fall to communism |
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| What is the name of the two military alliances formed by the two superpowers? |
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| NATO (US and allies) vs. Warsaw Pact (Soviet Union and satellite nations) |
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| Name three parts of the world where the Cold War got “hot” (regional wars or battles) |
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| Describe what the United Nations is and what it does. |
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| It tries to keep peace by giving countries a place to discuss things that could result in war |
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| What is the most important symbol of the Cold War and why? |
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| Berlin Wall. It is a physical division of a city, with both sides at war. |
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| Describe the incident that brought the two superpowers closest to nuclear war and tell me who was president when this occurred. |
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| Cuban Missile Crisis; Soviets brought missiles to Cuba (country) and the US demanded they take them down. JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) |
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| Give three reasons that we never had World War III. |
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| 1. Mutual Assured Destruction (If we fired, they would fire, and everyone would die) 2. United Nations (Countries could talk out disputes) 3. Détente (We tried to have better relations) |
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| Who is Joseph McCarthy and what is McCarthyism? |
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| McCarthy accused many people of being Communist (McCarthyism) and eventually was taken down when he accused the army of being C\ommunist |
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| What is Détente and in what decade did it occur? |
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| 1970's, Ease of tension between superpowers |
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| Why did the period known as détente end? |
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| The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan |
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| What US President effectively pushed the Cold War to its ending and how did he do it? |
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| Ronald Reagan, he spent trillions on a defense program to destroy Soviet missiles from space. |
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| What Soviet leader helped end the Cold War and how did he do it? |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev let his people speak openly, started talking with US. |
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| What event symbolized the end of the Cold War? |
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