Cold War 1
Leader of the Soviet Union following WWII.
Stalin
President after FDR
Truman
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S.?
This is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It also formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.
The 38th Parallel
This is the title given to any war where no direct fighting occurs between the two countries.
Cold War
The idea of keeping communism from spreading.
Containment
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Word that means "cease fire."
Armistice
This was built in the German capital city to divide communists and non-communist.
Berlin Wall
Churchill's noted description of this barrier across the continent of Europe following World War II.
Iron Curtain
Name the city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
Who was the U.S. General in the Korean War?
MacArthur
Years for the start and end of the Cold War?
What is approximately 1945 - 1991?
What was the US program called that created the first nuclear weapons?
Manhattan Project
Who was the President when the United States was closest to Nuclear War?
John F. Kennedy
This describes the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war
What is the Arms Race?
This multinational organization was created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe.
What is NATO?
This was a period of anti-communist hysteria in the late 1940s and 1950s
The Red Scare
Rapidly building nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Proliferation
This war was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950.
What is the Korean War?
European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.
The Marshall Plan
This crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations
Warsaw Pact
What is McCarthyism?
President when the cease-fire ended military combat in Korea.
Eisenhower
Korean War years
1950-1953
Where was the U2 spy plane shot down?
Soviet Union
What year did the Berlin wall come down?
1989
Historians use the word “boom” to describe a lot of things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.”
The 1950's Boom
Two of the five satellite nations of the Soviet Union in 1945.
What are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
Kennedy started this program to provide economic assistance to third world countries.
Peace Corps
This was created after communism threatened Greece and Turkey for access to the straits connecting the Black Sea.
Truman Doctrine
What part of the US government organization tried to overthrow Castro in 1961?
CIA
On this date, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
1991
What was name of the bay in which the exiled Cubans and CIA operatives attempted to land?
Bay of Pigs