1. Make a copy of the document.
2. Watch the video The Cold War in 7 minutes
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1. When did the Cold War begin? 1945
2. Which are the two blocks of the Cold war? Western bloc and Eastern bloc
3. Which one is capitalist and what country leads it?
The Eastern bloc. The United States is the capitalis
4. Which one is communist and what country leads it?
The Western bloc. The Soviet Union
5. Why is it called Cold war? Because neither of the two blocks fought directly in
the war
6. Was it a direct war or not?It was not a direct war
7. Why was it an ideological war? (Explained in class)
Because they fought for defending which idea was better the one of Marx
(communism) or the one of Locke (democracy)
8. What kind of governments did the USSR support?
Socialist government
9. Look at this picture from activity 6 and give an example of this support after
1936.
T26
10. Who were allies to stop Hitler?
USSR, United Kingdom and USA
11. Paste a photograph of the Yalta Conference.
12. Complete. YALTA CONFERENCE
PRESIDENT/ LEADER/PRIME MINISTER COUNTRY
Stalin USSR
Roosevelt USA
Churchill United Kingdom
13. What decisions were taken in the Yalta Conference?
14. Division of Germany
2. Demilitarisation
3. Return of the territories to the countries that were conquered by the Nazi
4. Creation of the United Nations (UNO) (ONU en castellano)
5. Stalin allowed free elections in Poland (This never occur)
15. What is the name of the international trials that judged the nazi leaders?
(Look it up on the Internet)
Nuremberg trials
16. Paste a photograph of the this trials.
17. What areas did the soviet occupy during World War II?
Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary and eastern Gremany
18. Look at this map and write the names of the countries under soviet/Russian
control that would turn communist after 1945.
Countries:1.__Yugoslavia__________2.______Eastern Germany_____3.___
Romania ________ 4._______Albania _____ 5.____Poland_ _
6.____Hungary _______7.____Bulgaria______ and
8._____Czechoslovakia_____
19. What is the Marshall plan?
It was the plan adopted to repair Europe after WW2
20. What did the aims of the Marshall plan try to prevent?
To prevent the spread of communism in Western Europe and to stabilize the
international order in a way favorable to the development of political democracy and
free-market economies.
21. Look up for the list of countries adhered to the Marshall Plan on the internet.
Did Franco's Spain participate on this Plan?
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and western Germany.
No
22. Watch these movie fragment. Bienvenido Mister Marshall - La lista de regalos
It's from Bienvenido Mister Marshall, it's considered the best film ever in
spanish film history. What do you think the film is about?
23. Search for information on the Internet about the film director of Bienvenido
Mister Marshall and answer: Did he participate in World War 2 and how?
24. What is the NATO?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
25. What is the name of NATO in Spanish.
OTAN
26. The Warsaw Pact (1955) is a military defense pact between____Eastern
(8)_______ countries.
(To complete these gap you must simply reflect on what the video is about)
27. Finally Europe was divided by the _____iron courtain___________, an
expression coined by ______Churchill__________
28. Look up on the Internet for the correct translation into Spanish of this concept.
__________ cortina de hierro _________________
29. What happened in 1949 in China?
That the People’s republic of China was created
30. Paste a photograph of the great leader and founder of Communist China.
31. What happened in Korea between 1950 and 1953?
The Korean war
32. What is the situation today on the Korean peninsula?
they are divided in two but there is a lot of tensión in the demilitarized zone
33. What geographic parallel separates the two Koreas?
Look up on the Internet
the line of latitude 38 degrees north of the equator
34. When Stalin died in 1953, he was succeeded by _____Nikita
Khrushchev________ as leader of the USSR.
35. Paste a photograph of him, the famous one when he removed his shoe to
bang on the table during an assembly of the United Nations.
36. Why does the video (min 4.18) mention 15 million people emigrating? Why
should people want to do this?
(To answer to this you must have followed my lessons in class)
37. Watch this film Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 - no comment.
What is it about?
What block built it?
What does the video show between minute 1:00 and 1:25?
38. Watch this trailer "Der tunnel" (trailer)
What is it about?
39. In 1959 a revolution succeeded in Cuba. Some years later Cuba turned into a
Communist country. Paste the photograph of the two famous Cuban
revolutionaries:
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
40. In 1961 Cuban exiles invaded Cuba with the support of the USA. Cuban exiles
were the Cuban people that were forced to leave their country when
communism was established in Cuba. Read the following link and answer:
Gloria Estefan left Cuba as a young child, but the island defines her, and her
music | by The Lily News
What famous singer emigrated from Cuba to Miami?
Gloria Estefan
Why did she do it?
Because she was considered part of the bourgeoisie
41. In 1961 the USSR deploys a nuclear missile base in Cuba. However the USA
discovered the soviet plans and a THIRD WORLD WAR was nearer than ever.
It is called the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The USSR sent their war ships in direction Cuba but finally gave order to
retreat.
For the USA this missiles were a huge problem because Cuba is only some 500
kilometers away from Florida. Paste a map showing the actual distance
between Cuba and Florida.
42. Watch the following trailer (put the subtitles on) 13 days
How many Americans could be killed in 5 minutes, by those ballistic missiles?
80 million
43. Who was the President of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Paste the
photograph of him.
John F. Kennedy
44. Another bitter conflict for Americans was the Vietnam war. Why did this war
occur?
Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War and answer:
It occur because vietnam was a new country and there was a civil war for
deciding if the country would be communist or capitalist, so because of that
USA wanted to have a capitalist country near the URSS
What countries supported North Vietnam:
Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries
What countries supported South Vietnam:
United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia,
Thailand, and other anti-communist allies.
45. The milestones of the Space race between the USSR and USA are:
1._____The first satellite to orbit Earth__________________
2_______The first living thing to go to space a dog called Laika and return alive
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Mecano - Laika (Homenaje)
3__________The first human-crewed spacecraft______________
4_________The first person to walk on the
Moon_______________
46. What happened in 1989?
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre: A violent
military crackdown takes place on pro-democracy protesters in
Tiananmen Square, Beijing. 1989 Polish legislative election:
Solidarity's victory in the first round is the first of many anti-
communist revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.
47. Who won the Cold War?
The United States
48. What former communist countries continue to be so?
China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and North Korea
