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25 Cards in this Set
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What is containment? Give two examples |
Holding back the spread of Communism examples: The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan |
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What does the iron curtain represent? |
The iron curtain is the Soviet divider that split European Communism and Non-Communism |
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Name three Soviet Satellites |
Yugoslavia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia |
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What two superpowers were involved in the Cold War? |
U.S and the Soviet Union |
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What did NATO stand for? |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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Name two nations that were in NATO. |
U.S, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy |
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What was the cold war? |
The Cold War was a conflict where the 2 main countries didn't actually fight. |
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What was the Warsaw Pact? |
The Warsaw Pact was in 1955 and it made the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe allies. |
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
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The U.S aided Greece and Turkey with 400 million dollars. Also American military aid was available to any nation threatened by Communism.
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What was the Marshall Plan?
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The Marshall Plan began on June 5, 1947 by Secretary of State George Marshall. He extended American influence in Western Europe and helped reunite the region into a single economic group.
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What does "cult of personality" mean?
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Cult of personality means to make oneself look good to appeal to the people.
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How did the Soviet Union react to the U-2 spy plane that was sent to see if they were building nuclear missiles?
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The Soviets shot it down.
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Why was the Fourth French Republic not successful?
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It was not successful because no single party was strong enough to obtain majority in the National Assembly.
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Give the definition of a welfare state.
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welfare state- a system in which the national government provides programs for the well being of its citizens
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What were the two democratic groups in Germany?
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The Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats
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Name two examples of technological advancements in America in the 1950s.
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automation, computers, automobile
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Define McCarthyism
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making charges of disloyalty without regard to evidence
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Which new alliances did the US form in the 1950s to contain communism?
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Southeast Asia, Middle East, Latin America
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Who struggled for civil rights after the war?
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African Americans
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What was the basis behind the Watergate Scandal?
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5 men were caught planting electronic listening devices in the office of the Democratic National Committee
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Bonus cards: Each player make a paper airplane. The one who flies the farthest gets to move and extra three spaces.
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Move three spaces ahead.
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Bonus cards: Give a thirty second speech from a U.S point of view on the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
Move four spaces ahead. |
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Bonus cards: Give a persuasive speech on why you should buy the automobile. |
Move two spaces ahead. |
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Bonus cards: With your group, demonstrate what happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Move one space ahead.
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Bonus cards: The first group member to take their shoe off and bang it on the desk gets to move the indicated number of spaces.
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Move five spaces ahead.
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