Cold War Basics
A long period of political and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that started after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
Leader of the Soviet Union during much of the Cold War who led the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The 1950–1953 war on the Korean Peninsula in which the United States supported South Korea and China supported North Korea.
What is the Korean War?
The ocean that borders the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
One major cause of the Cold War was the difference in economic systems: the United States favored capitalism, while the Soviet Union favored this system.
What is communism?
This term described as one nation becoming a communist nation, after another, and then another and so on.
What is The Domino Effect?
The U.S. president who introduced the Truman Doctrine.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
A 1962 event when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in this Caribbean country, creating a near nuclear conflict with the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The international organization formed after World War II to promote peace and cooperation among countries and assisted South Korea in the Korean War.
Who is the United Nations?
The U.S. stopped buying this product from Cuba after new communist leader, Fidel Castro, took over.
What is sugar?
The U.S. policy meant to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries at risk.
What is containment?
These fighters resisted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s and received support from the United States.
Who are the mujahideen?
The major war in Southeast Asia where U.S. troops fought to prevent the spread of communism in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is the Vietnam War?
The region the U.S. feared would be affected by the domino effect after Fidel Castro became leader of Cuba?
What is Latin America?
The U.S. and Soviet Union competed after World War II mainly because they had different __________ and political systems.
What is economic systems or ideologies?
The United States and the Soviet Union did not engage in war during the Cold War. Term used to describe Korean War and the Vietnam War.
What is a proxy war?
President Kennedy created this group to advise him during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who are the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm)?
In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded this mountainous Central Asian country, leading to a long war against local fighters called mujahideen.
What is Afghanistan?
These areas often have more access to trade routes and economic opportunities.
What are areas closest to water?
JFK called this the Naval Quarantine of Cuba to avoid the legal meaning that it was an act of war.
What is a blockade?
The division of Europe after WWII into democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe controlled by the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
He signed the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, promising to end the conflict between the north and the south.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could achieve the most in space exploration.
What is the Space Race?
The communist leader of China that once had an alliance with the USSR.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The collapse of this superpower in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War and led to the independence of many republics.
What is the Soviet Union?