Cold WarChapters 15-17

Question #1

Besides the fact that we had the atomic bomb, what is another cause of the Cold War?

Question #2

Churchill referred to the line that separated capitalist controlled Western Europe from the Communist controlled Eastern Europe as the _______ _________.

Question #3

Define the Marshall Plan.

Question #4

Why did the United States enter the conflict in Korea? (why did we help the South)

Question #5

This Cold War Policy was the diplomatic art of going to the brink of war without actually getting into war.

Question #6

Why did Sputnik worry Americans?

Question #7

Why did the U.S. send hundreds of millions of dollars to Greece and Turkey in 1947?

Question #8

Why did the U.S. support the Anti-Cuban refugee invasion at the Bay of Pigs?

Question #9

Why did John Kennedy win the 1960 election?

Question #10

Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall?

Question #11

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis? (The US agreed to do what? The Soviets agreed to do what?)

Fill in the blank with the correct presidents. Questions #12-16

#12. 1933-1945- ________ (World War II)

#13. 1945- 1953- ________ (Atomic Bomb)

#14. 1953-1961- ________ (Korean War)

#15. 1961-1963- ________ (Cuban Missile Crisis)

#16. 1963-1969- ________ (VP turned Pres.)