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The ColdWar

Russian Revolution

The Rise and Fall of the USSR

Vocab WWII Wild Card

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Q: 100

How were the governments different between Soviet-controlled countries

and the Western European countries?

The Soviet Union was communist and the Western European

countries were democratic.

Q: 200

What was the Cold War?

A:200

The Cold War was a tense international situation that existed between NATO countries led by the United States and communist countries led by the Soviet Union for over 40 years after WWII.

Q: 300

What were the origins of the Cold War?

A: 300

The Cold War began after Germany was divided by the Ally powers following WWII.

The West was democratic and the East was communist. This difference in government led

to a fierce competition between the super powers of

the Soviet Union and the United States.

Q: 400

Draw the iron curtain on the map below

A:400

Q:500

Name 4 members of NATO

4 members of the Warsaw Pact

and 2 neutral countries

A:500

NATO- U.S., U.K, France, Italy, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Greece, etc.

Warsaw Pact- USSR, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, E. Germany, Albania

Neutral- Finland, Sweden, Austria, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland

Q:100

Who was the last Czar of Russia?

A:100

Czar Nicholas II

Q:200

Who overthrew the provisional democratic government during the

October Revolution?

A: 200

Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Q: 300

In what year did the Russian Revolution begin? What major war

was going on at the time?

A: 300

World War I

Q: 400

Place the following events in chronological order. Place a “1” next to the event that happened first, etc.

____ Lenin overthrows the provisional democratic government

____ Workers peacefully march to the Winter Palace with a list of demands, including better working conditions. The Czar’s troops fire into the crowd killing hundreds.

_____ Czar Nicholas II abdicates his thrown_____ The Bolsheviks win the civil war_____ The Soviet Union is created_____ A provisional democratic government is established_____ Civil war breaks out

A: 400

• _4_ Lenin overthrows the provisional democratic government

• _1_ Workers peacefully march to the Winter Palace with a list of demands, including better working conditions. The Czar’s troops fire into the crowd killing hundreds.

• __2_ Czar Nicholas II abdicates his thrown• _6__ The Bolsheviks win the civil war• _7__ The Soviet Union is created• _3__ A provisional democratic government is

established• __5_ Civil war breaks out

Q: 500

Explain the February Revolution

A: 500

• During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate his throne and a provisional democratic government was set up by former

members of the Duma.

Q: 100

I ruled the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin. My name is related to the Russian word

meaning “steel.”Who am I?

A: 100

Q: 200

True or False?•The Berlin Wall divided

the entire country of Germany. The West was democratic and the East

was communist.

A: 200

• The Berlin Wall did not divide the country just the city of Berlin.

Q: 300

True or False

Germany was reunified after the collapse of the Soviet Union

A: 300

Q: 400

In what year was the Berlin wall built and in what year was it dismantled?

A: 400

Q: 500

What were some of the effects of German

reunification?

A: 500

• West Germany absorbed most of the cost of rebuilding East Germany.

• East German businesses collapsed when competing with West German businesses.

• Most of former GDR de-industrialized, causing a 25% unemployment rate in some parts of the country.

• Many West Germans resented East Germans

Q:100

• Use abdicate in a sentence

A:100• Nicholas II was forced to abdicate his

throne during the February Revolution.

Q: 200

Stalin controlled the country’s agriculture by setting up

_______.

A: 200

•Collective farms

Q: 300

Give a specific example of puppet government during the Cold War.

A: 300

Ex. The Soviet Union controlled the governments of countries such as

Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, etc.

Q: 400

Explain the significance of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans.

A: 400

• Stalin’s Five-Year Plans were sets of economic goals put in place to strengthen the country, such as building more factories and increasing production

Q: 500

What was the significance of the Potsdam conference?

A: 500

The Potsdam conference determined how Germany would be divided among the Ally powers.

Q:100

WWII began when Germany invaded_______________

A: 100

Poland

Q: 200

• Which of the following leaders was not part of the axis powers?

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Joseph Stalin

A: 200

Joseph Stalin

Q: 300

List three Ally powers and three Axis powers.

A: 300

Allies- United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, France

Axis- Japan, Germany, Italy

Q: 400

Name the battle located on Soviet territory that was considered to be the turning point of the war.

A: 400

Q: 500

Name the two cities where atomic bombs

were dropped in Japan.

A: 500

• Before and after

photographs of Nagasaki

Q: 100

• Name the breed of dog shown below

A: 100

Golden Retriever

Q: 200

I was an alliance of Eastern European nations which refused to trade or cooperate with nations belonging to NATO. What am I?

A: 200

Warsaw Pact

Q: 300

Name the artist of the painting below

A: 300

Vincent Van Gogh

Q: 400

Name the video game shown below

A: 400

Q: 500

Put the events below in chronological order. Place a 1 next to the event that happened first.

• Battle of Stalingrad• October Revolution• Germany invades Poland• Berlin wall is built• Treaty of Versailles is signed• WWI begins• Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima

A: 500

• Battle of Stalingrad 5

• October Revolution 2

• Germany invades Poland4

• Berlin wall is built 7

• Treaty of Versailles is signed 3

• WWI begins 1

• Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima 6