Cold War Leaders
This president created the Truman Doctrine to fight the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This airlift kept West Berlin supplied during a Soviet blockade in 1948–49.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A war of ideas, threats, and propaganda rather than direct military conflict.
What is the Cold War?
After WWII, this country controlled East Berlin.
What is the Soviet Union?
This war (1950–1953) was the first major conflict of the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
This U.S. president demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This is how people in West Berlin got supplies during the 1948 blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This Southeast Asian conflict ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon.
What is the Vietnam War?
This Soviet leader’s reforms of glasnost and perestroika helped end the Cold War.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This conflict between the North and South ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
This term refers to the symbolic division between East and West Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Berlin Wall came down in this year, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.
What is 1989?
The U.S. secretly armed rebels called the Mujahideen during this Soviet invasion.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?
He was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This Cold War military alliance was created by the U.S. and its allies in 1949.
What is NATO?
This doctrine promised U.S. aid to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This agreement in 1945 divided Germany and Berlin into four occupation zones.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This island nation saw a revolution in 1959, leading to a communist government near the U.S.
What is Cuba?
This U.S. president gave the famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This 1957 Soviet satellite launched the space race.
What is Sputnik?
This U.S. plan gave financial aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Berlin Wall was built in this year.
What is 1961?
This 1973 coup in South America led to the U.S.-backed rise of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
What is the Chilean coup?