Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
Korean War
What country was trying to contain communism?
the U.S.
The time period when fighting was done by using money and words instead of guns and soldiers.
Cold War
The dictator of the Soviet Union who believed that he should control a majority of Europe after WWII.
Joseph Stalin
The symbol of the differences between communist and noncommunist countries.
Iron Curtain
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
Cuban Missile Crisis
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
USSR
An organization set up for nations to trade peacefully with one another and to help stop the spread of communism throughout the world.
NATO
Great Britain's prime minister who coined the phrase "Iron Curtain".
Winston Churchill
Ordinary people and businesses control the production of goods and services.
capitalism
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
Vietnam War
Who was this war mainly against?
U.S and the Soviet Union
When the U.S. used planes to drop food and supplies to help the people of West Berlin.
Berlin Airlift
The president who took over after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and who tried to stop the spread of communism.
Harry S. Truman
The government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources.
communism
What was the cold war?
A war of words
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
Containment
Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba after being behind in the arms race. The Soviet Union removes them only when the U.S. promises not to invade Cuba. This became known as the __________________.
Cuban Missile Crisis
An anti-communist who believed there were communist spies working for the U.S. government.
Joseph McCarthy
President that feared a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and ordered a blockade around Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but nevercould prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.
Censored
The war fought over the spread of communism between communist N. Korea and non-communist S. Korea; U.S. leaders thought that the Soviet Union had helped plan the attack.
Korean War
The Soviet leader who helped Fidel Castro set up a communist government in Cuba and ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Nikita Khrushchev
This was built to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin.
Berlin Wall