Cold War Policies
Policy to prevent the spread of Communism
What is containment
purpose of the United Nations
What is resolve conflicts between nations peacefully
Post-WWII negotiations about Europe’s future
What is the Potsdam Conference
Event that launched the Space Race
What is Sputnik
U.S. president who ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan twice.
Who is Harry S. Truman
Found in Cuba
What is inter-ballistic missiles
Warsaw Pact
What is the Soviet Union and its satellite nations
Going to the edge of war without actually fighting
What is Brinkmanship
Joseph McCarthy used this to take out his political enemies
What is the Red Scare
Reason the Cold War is considered “cold”?
No actual fighting took place
Protests began in this region during the late 1980s
What are the Baltic Republics
End of the Cold War is signaled by
What is the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union
US President
Who is John F. Kennedy
NATO stands for
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Purpose of Detente
What is to reduce Cold War tensions
The idea that if one country falls to communism then the countries neighboring that country are now at risk of falling to communism
What is Domino Theory
Reason behind the Berlin Wall
What is to keep East Germans from fleeing to the West
SALT stands for
What is Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Competition between the U.S. and USSR to build powerful weapons
What is the Nuclear Arms Race
A failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles
Designed to help Europe recover economically after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan
Policy of openness and free expression
What is Glasnost
the Soviet Union tried to starve out the democratic government in West Berlin in order to turn it communist
What is the Berlin Crisis?
The U.S. response to the Berlin Blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Leaders of Soviet Union and the United States at the end of the Cold War
Who are Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
Decisive end of Korean War
An armistice, dividing North and South Korea
a standoff over Soviet missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Political and ideological tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union
What is the Cold War
Differences between the United States and the Soviet Union governments
What is Democracy/Capitalism and Communism
The Soviet Response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Soviet attempt to cut off access to West Berlin
What is the Berlin Blockade?
"Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Who is President Ronald Regan?
The Cold War conflict that lasted the longest for the U.S
What is the Vietnam War
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Krushev?
the division between Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe
What is considered the "Iron Curtain"