When did that happen?
Acronyms
That'll Fix It
When the cold war got hot
Policies and Procedures
100

1947-1991

When was the Cold War?

100

North Atlantic Treaty Organization- non-communist military alliance

What is NATO?

100

The economic recovery plan for western Europe after World War 2

What is the Marshall Plan?

100

US went to war to prevent south Vietnam from falling to Communism (1962)

What is the Vietnam War?

100

Monetart Aid pledged to assist the free people of Turkey and Greece against Communist regimes

What is the Truman Doctrine?

200

Built in 1961 and torn down in 1989

What is the Berlin Wall?

200

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the US and the USSR

What is SALT?

200

A Military alliance for the defense of communist states in Eastern Europe

What is the Warsaw Pact?

200

The 17th Parallel

What is the dividing Line Between North and South Vietnam?

200

Military Alliance for the defense of Communist states in Eastern Europe

What is the Warsaw Pact?

300

1961 failed US invasion of Cuba

What is the Bay of Pigs?

300

Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) - An anti missle defense system

What is SDI?

300

Idea that if one nation falls to communism then another will fall and so on 

What is the Domino Theory?

300

38th Parallel

What is the Dividing Line between North and South Korea?

300

Theory that the USSR would back down because of American nuclear superiorirty

What is Brinkmanship?

400

A conflict between a communist country and non communist country from 1950 to 1953?

What is the Korean War?

400

Mutually Assured Destruction

What is MAD?

400

1962 when the US and USST came to the brink of nuclear war

What is the Cuban Missle Crisis?

400

Term coined by Winston Churchill about an imaginary line that separated capitalist/ democratic countries from the soviets/ communism

What is the Iron Curtain?

400

Hysteria in the US over the threat of Communist infiltration

What is the Red Scare?

500

Launched in 1957 by the USSR

What is Sputnik?

500

House Un-American Activities Committee

What is HUAC?

500

A massive government spending by the US and the USSR to prouce and have the most weapons

What is the Arms Race?

500

The 3 year conflict that has not technically ended but maintains a cease fire.

What is the Korean War?

500

A relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR

What is Detente?

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