Origins
This conference divided Germany into 4 zones and promised free elections in Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
US policy to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Buildup of nuclear weapons between the US and USSR.
What is the arms race?
First artificial satellite launched by the Soviets in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
Soviet leader who introduced reforms in 1985.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Winston Churchill’s name for the division between communist East and democratic West Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
1947 promise of US aid to countries resisting communist aggression.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
“If we attack, you destroy us too” strategy.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
1969 US achievement that won the Space Race.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?
Gorbachev’s policy meaning “openness.”
What is glasnost?
The two main countries that emerged as superpowers after WWII.
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This plan gave $13 billion to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
US-led defensive alliance of Western democracies.
What is NATO?
US spy agency during the Cold War.
What is the CIA? (Accept KGB for Soviet)
Gorbachev’s policy of economic restructuring.
What is perestroika?
Main ideological difference: The US believed in democracy and this economic system.
What is capitalism?
First two countries helped by the Truman Doctrine.
What are Greece and Turkey?
Soviet response to NATO; alliance of Eastern Bloc countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Fear of communism inside the US led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
What is the Red Scare (or McCarthyism)?
1989 event that symbolized the collapse of Soviet control in Eastern Europe.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
This conference saw Stalin refuse free elections, increasing US distrust.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The US moved from this policy to active global leadership during the Cold War.
What is isolationism?
1962 crisis where Soviets placed missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Famous film that taught children to “duck and cover” during a nuclear attack.
What is Duck and Cover?
Year the Soviet Union officially broke apart into 15 countries.
What is 1991?