Vocabulary
The ideological barrier that separated the Democratic West and Communist East in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Pres. Truman's decree to assist nations that are willing to fight against Communism.
What is Truman Doctrine?
What is Berlin Airlift?
The Soviet space program successfully sent the first man to orbit Earth.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
A Cold War strategy in which one side sends spies to uncover information on the enemy
What is Espionage?
The willingness to go to the edge of war without going over.
What is Brinkmanship?
A strategy in which the U.S sends economic aid, food and materials to nations in Western Europe to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is Marshall Plan?
The conflict on the Korean Peninsula in which the country would be split along its 38th Parallel.
What is Korean War?
Revolutionary Leader against the French in Vietnam and leader of North Vietnam Communist forces.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
An economic program enacted by Mao Zedong to increase China's production and collective farming programs across the country.
What is Great Leap Forward?
The identity of guerilla fighters who fought for North Vietnam and attacked South Vietnam.
Who are the Vietcong?
Using deliberate information as a means to manipulate people's behavior to serve your cause or agenda.
What is Propaganda?
A technological conflict in which the United States and Soviet Union completed by being the first to launch successful space programs.
What is Space Race?
Cuban revolutionary Leader who ran a dictatorship in Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
An idea proposed by Pres. Eisenhower which theorizes that if one country falls to Communism, nearby countries will also fall.
What is Domino Theory?
The policy of lessening Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union.
What is Detente?
A military alliance between Atlantic nations including the U.S, Canada and western Europe to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is NATO?
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviet Premier who comes into power after the death of Stalin and promises to de-Stalinize the Soviet Union.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its border states to create a buffer zone of Communism in east Europe.
What is Warsaw Pact?
Reform policies introduced by the Soviet Union in the 1980s to reduce strict Soviet control and open the country to business and political freedoms
What is Glasnost and Perestroika?
In order to overthrow the leader of Cuba, the U.S launched an operation in 1961 to use guerrilla forces to invade Cuba.
What is Bay of Pigs Invasion?
In 1979, Americans were held captive by Iranian diplomats after the U.S granted asylum to Iran's former Shah.
What is Iran Hostage Crisis?
The leader of the Iranian Revolution and conservative movement in Iran to depose the Shah and return Iran to an Islamic state.
Who is Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini?
When U.S troops began withdrawing from Vietnam, they enacted the policy in which the South Vietnamese would be responsible for their own defense.
What is Vietnamization?