Jeopardy
The Cold War Cold War II Potpourri
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Final Jeopardy
The Cold War Turns Hot
The End of the Cold War
$100 The Cold War
Q: Alliance formed to stop the spread of communism?
$100 The Cold War
R: NATO
$200 The Cold War
Q: Name 2 things families would typically see or hear on tv during the cold war era?
$200 The Cold War
R: “Duck and cover”
Bert the turtle
$300 The Cold War
Q: The Purpose of Marshal’s Plan objective was to build up European countries economy so they….
$300 The Cold War
R: Wouldn’t be susceptible to Communism.
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Could fight off Communism themselves
$400 The Cold War
Q: Truman Doctrine was 1st used in Greece and Turkey because?
$400 The Cold War
R: There was a direct threat of Communism taking over there. Stalin wanted the Dardanelles Strait.
$500 The Cold War
Q: What was the 1st Conflict of the Cold War the western allies faced?
$500 The Cold War
R: Berlin Blockade
$100 Cold War II
Q: What was the name of the alliance set up by the Soviet Union and their Eastern European allies?
$100 Cold War II
R: Warsaw Pact
$200 Cold War II
Q: What did Churchill call the division of Europe between Communist and non-Communist countries?
$200 Cold War II
R: Iron Curtain
$300 Cold War II
Q: What was the purpose of the Berlin Blockade?
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Was it successful? explain
$300 Cold War II
R: Purpose: To starve W. Berlin so that they would give up and the SU could control all of Berlin.
Successful???: NO bc of the Berlin Airlift where we sent 12,500 tons of supplies daily
$400 Cold War II
Q: Who were the “Big 3” at the Potsdam conference and what threat was made?
$400 Cold War II
R: Truman, Attlee(who replaced Churchill) and Stalin
Truman threatened Stalin with a very powerful weapon (the atomic bomb)
$500 Cold War II
Q: Name 4 events that escalated the Cold War
$500 Cold War II
R:
The Manhattan Project
Satellite Nations
Dropping the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Check Point Charlie
The Berlin Blockade
the Berlin Wall
$100 Manhattan Project
Q: What was the name of the atomic bomb that was first tested on US soil?
$100 Manhattan Project
R: Trinity
$200 Manhattan Project
Q: Who developed the atomic bomb?
$200 The Cold War Turns Hot
R: Julius Robert Oppenheimer
$300 Manhattan Project
Q: Name the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the one dropped on Nagasaki:
$300 Manhattan Project
R: Hiroshima- Little Boy
Nagasaki – Fat Man
$100 The End of the Cold War
Q: What was Detente?
$100 The End of the Cold War
R: An international agreement to ease tensions b/t the two superpowers in the 1970s
$200 The End of the Cold War
Q: Who changed the social and economic reforms in Russia, leading to the end of the USSR and Berlin Wall?
$200 The End of the Cold War
R: Gorbachav
$300 The End of the Cold War
Q: When did the USSR fall?
$300 The End of the Cold War
R: 1991
$400 The End of the Cold War
Q: Why did NATO form and what was its’ purpose?
$400 The End of the Cold War
Why? Because the UN due to permanent members having veto power, they were unable to get involved.
Purpose: To protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union
$500 The End of the Cold War
Q:Who said the following and who was he saying it to?
“Mr. ______________, tear down that wall!”
$500 The End of the Cold War
Who said it: Ronald Reagan
He said it to Gorbachev.
$100 mix
Q: Why was the Berlin Wall built in 1961?
$100 mix
R: The blockade failed and economy declining due to so many East Germans fleeing to W. Berlin.
$200
• What was the goal of the U.S. throughout the Cold War?
$200 mix
• Stop the spread of Communism. = Containment – Truman Doctrine
$300 mix
• Besides spreading Communism, what was the other goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
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• Create a buffer zone of friendly (Communist) countries in Eastern Europe to make it harder for any country to invade.
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Name 3 big differences between Capitalism and communism.
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• Look at notes
$500
Who said the following and explain what it means:
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
How much?
Q: Describe a key difference between the leadership of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev
• A: Stalin- Secret Police, Power hungry dictator, wanted to spread communism, extreme censorship
• Krushchev: destalinization, continued maintaining wall
• Gorbachev: Tore down wall, more democratic tendencies
Final Jeopardy
• The Spokes person gets to make up any question they want. –Tell them the subject and give each
team time to make–a wager…$0-$ what they have so
far.
Final Jeopardy
