Leaders
This U.S. president announced a policy to stop the spread of communism in 1947.
Harry S. Truman
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The policy of stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
This U.S. policy promised aid to countries resisting communism.
Truman Doctrine
This international organization was created after WWII to promote peace and prevent future global conflicts.
United Nations
This Soviet leader was in power during the early Cold War and the Berlin Blockade.
Joseph Stalin
This event involved the Soviet Union blocking Western access to West Berlin, prompting an airlift response.
Berlin Blockade
The idea that if one country falls to communism, nearby countries will follow.
The Domino Theory/Effect
This program provided economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
The Marshall Plan
This military alliance was formed by Western nations to counter Soviet influence in Europe while this Eastern Bloc military alliance was created in response to NATO. What were these two organizations/groups?
NATO and Warsaw Pact
This U.S. president dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F. Kennedy
This 1945 meeting helped decide the post-WWII division of Germany and rising tensions between Allied powers.
Potsdam Conference
The attempt by governments to control what information people can see or hear, often used during the Cold War.
Censorship
This policy aimed to relax tensions between superpowers.
Détente
This U.S. intelligence agency carried out covert operations during the Cold War to counter communism abroad.
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
This Chinese communist leader led the revolution and established the People’s Republic of China.
Mao Zedong
This 1979 Soviet intervention in Southwest Asia became a long, costly conflict similar to the U.S. experience in Vietnam.
Soviet-Afghan War
The ideological and physical division of Europe between communist East and capitalist West after WWII.
Iron Curtain
This policy of the 1980s increased U.S. military spending to pressure the USSR.
Reagan Doctrine
This Soviet agency was responsible for intelligence gathering, espionage, and internal security during the Cold War.
KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopanosti)
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This 1989 event, driven by public protests and political reforms, led to the collapse of a key symbol of East–West division.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
A nuclear strategy where both sides maintain enough weapons to guarantee total destruction if either strikes first.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
This policy focused on building up weapons to discourage attack.
Brinkmanship
This organization provided economic and military support among communist countries in Asia, led by China and the USSR at different times.
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