1. What happened at the Bay of Pigs? JFK sent in troops to stage a coup to overthrow Fidel Castro of Cuba JFK was defeated and humiliated

2. What was the effect of the Bay of Pigs? Castro of Cuba, and Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, decided to install nuclear missiles in Cuba; these were pointed at the United States

3. Who am I? Immediately after WWII I gave aid to Greece and Turkey to “contain” the spread of communism President Harry Truman

4. What was NATO, and why was it created? The North American Treaty Organization was formed after WW II, to counter Soviet power

5. What was the Iron Curtain? Who created this term? Why? This was the concept that Europe was divided between Communist countries and democracy/capitalist countries. The term was created by Winston Churchill

6. Where are Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Afghanistan, Korea, and Vietnam?

7. Who am I? I was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Nikita Khrushchev

8. Who am I? I was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis Fidel Castro

9. Who am I? I was the leader of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis President John F. Kennedy

10. What caused the U.S. to airlift food and supplies to the people of West Berlin? After WW II, the Allies withdrew forces from Germany and allowed their occupation zones to form one nation. This angered Josef Stalin, who encircled Berlin to hold the city hostage In the end, Stalin gave in.

11. Who am I? I was the U.S. President during the Korean War. President Truman

12. What does Glasnost mean? Who implemented this policy? Where? When? Glasnost was the idea in the Soviet Union that allowed the opening up of ideas in society and in the economy. Gorbachev allowed this to happen in the Soviet Union in the 1980s

13. Who am I? The Hostage Crisis in Iran in 1979 was during my presidency President Jimmy Carter

14. Toward the end of WWII, at what conferences were tensions evident between the Allies? Yalta and Potsdam

15. What idea was the major justification for U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era? Containment of the spread of communism

16. Who am I? I was the Communist leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War Ho Chi Minh

17. How was the Cold War fought? All over the world, through other country’s conficts With foreign aid With propaganda Using multinational alliances With an arms race With a race into space

18. Who am I? I am the president who said that “vietnamization” was the solution to ending the Vietnam War Richard M. Nixon

19. What is the concept of “Vietnamization?” Nixon’s idea that the Vietnamese should fight their own war.

20. Who are we? We were resistance fighters against Soviet invaders in Afghanistan in 1979. Muhajadin

21. Who am I? I led reforms that led to democratization of the Soviet Union in the 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev

22. What events escalated the arms race and the space race? The Soviet Union tested their first Atomic bomb. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

23. Who am I? In 1979 I led the religious opposition to Western influences in Iran Ayatollah Khomeini

24. What is Détente? A reduction in tensions between two rival countries. In the Cold War, between the Soviets and the Americans

25. I am the island nation where nuclear missiles were installed, pointed at the United States Cuba

26. Who am I? President Eisenhower put me in power in Iran in 1953 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi aka…The Shah of Iran

27. Who am I? I was willing to use Nuclear Weapons to win this war in Asia. I was fired by the president. General Douglas MacArthur

28. Who am I? A master of words, in 1947 I gave a famous speech about an “Iron Curtain” dividing Europe. Winston Churchill

29. Who are we? In 1979 we were held hostage for over a year in Iran Americans

30. What am I? I am an alliance, led by the U.S., created after WW II, to protect my members from possible Soviet aggression NATO

31. What am I? I am a bizarre word that means to revive the Soviet economy and political system Perestroika

32. Who am I? After WWII I implemented a plan to rebuild Europe to ensure peace, prosperity, democracy, and strong trading partners George C. Marshall and the “Marshall Plan”

33. After WW II how did Stalin try to protect the Soviet Union from their Western neighbors? Stalin maintained control over E. European countries (called Satellite nations) to act as a buffer against Western power.

34. Who am I? I am the American president who, in 1964, rapidly increased U.S. military commitment in Vietnam. Lyndon Baines Johnson