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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