4º ESO UNIT 8. COLD WAR

A state of permanent tension first between two ​ (a)   (the US and the ​ (b)   ) and then between the two ​ (c)   led by them, which did not lead to direct conflict because of the existence of a danger of mutual ​ (d)   , ensured by the use of ​ (e)   weapons. 

• superpowers
• USSR
• blocs
• destruction
• nuclear

Match the following

• Capitalist

• 
• USA flag

• 
• USSR flag

• Eastern Bloc

• Communist

• Western bloc

At the beginning, US and USSR collaborate because they had a common enemy: the ...

Match the following

• COMECON

• Same as NATO but in Eastern Europe for communist countries

• NATO

• Same as the Marshall plan but in Eastern Europe

• Warsaw Pact

• US economic aid to revive Western economies

• Marshall Plan

• US offer of military aid to democratic states

Who said this?

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has fallen across the continent"

Put them in chronological order:

• AFGHANISTAN CRISIS

• KOREAN WAR

• CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

• VIETNAM WAR

After World War II, ​ (a)   had been divided into four zones, each administered by an Allied country: USA, United Kingdom, France and USSR.

In June 1948, France, Great Britain and the USA decide the ​ (b)   of its areas. The ​ (c)   reacted by blocking of the western part of ​ (d)   . USA responded by establishing an ​ (e)   which, over eleven months and more than 275,000 flights, managed to supply the besieged population.

• Germany
• unification
• USSR
• Berlin
• airlift

After the ​ (a)   defeat in World War II (1945) it was jointly liberated by the Soviets and the ​ (b)   and it was agreed that they would divide the country into ​ two zones of occupation separated by the ​ (c)   th parallel, creating two states: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (​ (d)   ) and Republic of Korea (​ (e)   )

• Japanese
• Americans
• 38
• North Korea
• South Korea

The "cold war border" in the 38th parallel in Korea is the only one that has survived into the 21st century.

• True

• False

Name of the country that nationalised the Suez Canal in 1956 creating an international crisis.