The Cold War

List all the consequences of the Cuban missile crisis.

• The Cuban missile crisis had no significant impact on international relations.
• A significant de-escalation in Cold War tensions resulted in the establishment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Why did the United Nations get involved in the Korean war?

• To establish a military base in the region
• To support South Korea after North Korea invaded

How did the Korean War end?

• Peace treaty signed in 1960
• Armistice agreement signed on July 27, 1953

The Cold war was an Ideological war between what?

• United States and Soviet Union
• United States and China

What was the Iron Curtain?

• The Iron Curtain was a military alliance formed by Western European countries after World War II.
• The Iron Curtain was the ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas after World War II.

What was NATO? Who was in it? List them.

• Germany
• Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States

What was the Warsaw pact? Who was in it? List them.

• The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).

• It was a treaty signing.

How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?

• Through military intervention and force
• Through negotiations and agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union

Who was president during the Cuban missile crisis?

• Richard Nixon
• John F. Kennedy

Who launched sputnik? What was its relevance?

• United States
• The Soviet Union