People
Which British Prime Minister came up with the term or concept of the IRON CURTAIN to label the countries controlled by communist Russia
Winston Churchill
Russia invades this country for nearly a decade and looses ….similar to our Vietnam?
Afghanistan
Created after WWII to try and avoid future wars and act like a court of world opinion
United Nations
What type of bomb did both sides create after the Atomic bomb...different element (10-20 times more powerful)
Hydrogen
What two countries was Germany divided into?
West and East Germany
President Truman came up with this plan to "contain Communism" after WWII
Truman Doctrine
This country gets split in two at the 38th parallel at the end of WWII which then sparks a three year war
Korea
USA military alliance after WWII created to oppose communism
NATO
Name of the first satellite in space and what the name means in English (2 parts)
Sputnik Traveler
The city of Berlin was divided into how many sectors or parts after WWII
4 (USA, England, France , Russia)
This USA President worked for 13 days to stop a nuclear war with Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy
War fought by the USA to prevent the Domino Theory from happening in Asia
Vietnam
Russia military alliance created to oppose capitalism/democracy
Warsaw Pact
On the Moon
To keep people from leaving East Berlin what does Stalin have built
Berlin Wall
Led a communist revolution in China and made everyone carry his "little red book"
Mao Tse-Tung
This crisis last for 13 days and was the closest the world came from complete and utter nuclear destruction
Cuban Missile Crisis
USA plan and organization created to loan money to Europe after WWII to help them rebuild and remain democratic
Marshal Plan
4 letter name for missiles that can strike any location in the world
ICBM
To avoid a direct war with Russia but to also provide West Berlin with supplies what plan does the USA use.
Berlin Airlift
Communist leader of Vietnam (3 part name)
Ho Chi-Minh
Acronym/term used by the USA and Russia to explain how both sides would be impacted by a nuclear war
Name of the acronym and what it means
MAD--Mutual Assured Destruction
The most important piece of the United Nations is the ___________ _____________.
Security Council
3 parts
1) Which USA President "bluffed the Russians into giving up on the arms race"
2) What did he call this plan or advance?
3) what was it supposedly able to do?
Raegan, Star Wars, use lasers to destroy nuclear missiles
3 parts
1) Name the two leaders that come together to tear down the Berlin wall
2) In what year does the wall come down
Gorbachev and Raegan 1989