HW #3 -The Cold war

Vocabulary complete all vocabulary and contexts (situations below)

1. Berlin Wall

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2. Cold War

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3. Communism

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4. Cuban Missile Crisis

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5. Iron curtain

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6.  Describe how the Cold War ideology (beliefs) that crystallized (took shape) after WWII changed wartime alliances that had existed during the war.

7.  Discuss how American Cold War policies (plans) and practices (habits) influenced (guided) international (world) relations from the late 1940s to the mid- 1950s.

8. Choose one of the following quotes from below explain in your own words who said it and what they meant.  

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

Winston Churchill, March 5, 1946

"In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war."
Harry S. Truman, April 16, 1951

  

"[Communism] has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or internal corruption or both."
John F. Kennedy, July 1963

"The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead."
Nikita Khrushchev, July 20, 1963