Leaders & Countries
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The U.S. flew supplies to West Berlin in this 1948–49 event.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This phrase was used to describe the divide between communist and non-communist Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This U.S. group collected secret info during the Cold War.
What is the CIA?
This first satellite in space was launched by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik?
This 1980s movie showed American teens fighting a Soviet invasion.
What is Red Dawn?
This U.S. president tried to stop the spread of communism after World War II.
Who is Harry Truman?
A war started in 1950 on this divided Asian peninsula.
What is Korea?
The U.S. used this policy to stop communism from spreading.
What is containment?
This Soviet group did spying during the Cold War.
What is the KGB?
This idea meant both sides could destroy each other with nuclear weapons.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This cartoon turtle taught kids to “duck and cover” in a nuclear attack.
Who is Bert the Turtle?
He gave a speech in 1946 warning about the “Iron Curtain.”
Who is Winston Churchill?
This 1962 crisis involved Soviet missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This theory said if one country became communist, others would follow.
What is the domino theory?
A U.S. spy plane with a camera was shot down in 1960.
What is the U-2?
This treaty said countries should not spread nuclear weapons.
What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
He wrote the book 1984, warning about government control.
Who is George Orwell?
He helped rebuild West Germany after World War II.
Who is Konrad Adenauer?
This country tried to fight against Soviet control in 1956 but lost.
What is Hungary?
This word means coming very close to war to scare the other side.
What is brinkmanship?
This husband and wife were accused of sharing secrets and were executed.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
This U.S. program made the first atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This time in the U.S. was all about fear of communism.
What is the Red Scare?
He changed the Soviet Union with new ideas like glasnost (openness) and perestroika (rebuilding).
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The U.S. joined this war in Southeast Asia that many Americans protested.
What is the Vietnam War?
This word means a big competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build more powerful weapons.
What is the arms race?
This British spy secretly worked for the Soviets.
Who is Guy Burgess?
This U.S. plan tried to build space weapons to stop nuclear attacks.
What is Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative)?
These were lists of people not allowed to work in movies or TV for being "communists."
What are blacklists?