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Cold War Reading and Map

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20 questions

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Question 1

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Cold War Alliances in Europe
Map Directions: Put all of the following on your blank map.
Make sure to include all symbols & colors on your Key (Legend).
Remember you can type on the map or write. You can also zoom in or out on the map to make it easier to fill in.
Label the following members of NATO & color them all one color:
Belgium Denmark France Great Britain
Greece Italy Luxembourg Netherlands
Norway Portugal Turkey West Germany

Label the following members of the Warsaw Pact & color them all RED:
Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany
Hungary Poland Romania USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Label the following nonaligned European nations & color them all the same color:
Austria Finland Ireland Spain
Sweden Switzerland

Label the following nonaligned communist European nation & color it BROWN:
Yugoslavia

Question 2

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Question 8

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What is a buffer zone?

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Question 15

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Why did the Soviets blockade Berlin?

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Question 20

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What was the name of the first unmanned satellite?

Allies become Enemies

USSR POV

angry that Stalin had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany 

US POV

angry with the US and England for not attacking Germany before 1944

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What was the purpose of the United Nations?

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Question 13

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Question 16

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How did the US and British respond to the blockade?

Question 17

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Upload a Cold War meme.

Question 18

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Question 19

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Select the types of punishment Germany faced after WW2. 

Forced to pay reparations to all of the Allied powers

Forced to pay reparations to Soviet Union for loss of life and property

Divided into 3 parts

Divided into 4 parts

Where is the United Nations headquarters based?

London

New York

Paris

Berlin

Select the permanent Security Council countries of the UN.

Germany 

Britain

China

Spain

France

Japan

Soviet Union

Canada

United States

What special power do Security Council countries have?

Declare war

Veto any Security Council action 

create sanctions against fellow members

Designate the president of the UN

Why did Stalin want a buffer zone? 

To protect the Soviet Union from Poland

To protect the Soviet Union from Germany 

To protect the Soveit Union from capitalism and Western Democracies

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What did Churchill mean when he used the phrase "Iron Curtain"?

A real wall between the Western Europe and Communist Europe

The division of Europe between Western democracies and Communist Eastern Europe

A curtain divided the continent into West and East but you could see through it.  

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The idea that the spread of communism was dangerous and should be stopped led to the foreign policy concept of __________. 

Isolationism

Buffer zones

Containment

Detente

Which tactics did President Truman say were used by communists?

Free elections 

fixed elections 

Free institutions

The will of the minority forced upon the majority.

Terror and oppression

suppression of personal freedoms

expression of personal freedoms

There are 2 main documents that support the policy of containment.  Match them to their definitions. 

Marshall Plan 

US foreign policy to politcally support countries that rejected communism

Truman Doctrine

Financial part of containment that became the European assisstance program to rebuild after WW2. 

After the war how did the Western Allies (US, Britain, and France) and Soviet Union differ in their treatment of Germany?

The Western Allies wanted to punish Germany, the Soviet Union wanted to help it rebuild.

The Western Allies wanted it to remain divided, the Soviet Union wanted to reuinte it. 

The Western Allies wanted to unite their parts of Germany, the Soviets wanted Germany to remain weak and divided. 

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Warsaw Pact 

defensive alliance led by the United States that included Western Democracies

NATO 

alliance led by the USSR (Soviet Union).

The willingness to go to the edge of war is known as 

containment

brinkmanship

alliances

defense