Cold War Alliances
A treaty between the United States & 11 other Western countries during the Cold War
What is the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
A policy which prevented further expansion of Soviet power & the spread of communism in the postwar world.
What is the Containment policy?
The United States president & Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev?
The two countries that competed in the Space Race
What is the U.S and the Soviet Union?
Leader whose administration created the containment policy, Domini Theory, & the Marshall Plan
Who is Harry Truman?
The country that is ever-neutral despite being invited to join NATO
What is Switzerland?
A U.S policy which provided aid to war-torn European countries after WW2, enabling nations to rebuild infrastructure & economies
What is the Marshall Plan?
The country which supplied Cuba with ballistic missiles
What is the Soviet Union?
The first country who got to space in October 1957, kicking off the intense space race
What is the Soviet Union?
Leader who was against America & it's allies as well as future western aggression & created communist governments in Europe after WW2
Who is Joseph Stalin?
A treaty signed by the U.S & the Philippines that assured mutual protection of either nation was attacked
What is Mutual Defense Treaty?
A policy which provided economic support to countries threatened by communist takeovers to prevent the spread of communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The agreement which stated that the Soviet Union would remove missiles from Cuba if the U.S promised not to invade Cuba
What is the agreement that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The first artificial Earth satellite in space launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit
What is Sputnik?
Leader which approved the building of the Berlin Wall & ordered nuclear missiles to be sent to Cuba
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
The 2 countries that also signed the Warsaw Pact with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, & Romania
What is the USSR and Poland?
A military strategy & national security policy which prevented direct conflict & full-scale use of nuclear weapons
What is the M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) policy?
The U.S state 90 miles away from Cuba that would be an easy missile target
What is Florida?
The U.S president that signed off on the National Aeronautics and Space Act bill, after congress passed it in July 16, 1958
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Leader which renewed American defense build up & was credited with convincing Gorbachev to end the Cold War
Who is Ronald Reagan?
What is the Southeast Asia Organization (SEATO)?
A national security policy under Eisenhower which balanced Cold War military commitments of the U.S with the nation's financial resources
What is the New Look policy?
The duration of the political stand-off between the Soviet Union & the U.S regarding Cuba
What is 13 days?
The animals who were put into space by the U.S before humans were
What are chimpanzees?
The final leader of the Soviet Union who spent more money on rebuilding Russia rather than on military advances
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?