After WWII
These two emerged as superpowers after World War II.
Who are the United States and the USSR?
This U.S. president introduced a policy promising to support countries threatened by communism.
Who is Harry Truman?
After WWII, this country was divided into four occupation zones controlled by Allied powers.
What is Germany?
This alliance united the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations in mutual defense.
What is NATO?
This communist leader established control of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This type of war involved superpowers supporting opposing sides without directly fighting each other.
What is a proxy war?
A nation with overwhelming military, political, and economic influence.
What is a superpower?
This policy aimed to stop communism from spreading beyond where it already existed.
What is containment?
This region of Germany became democratic and capitalist after the division.
What is West Germany?
This alliance formed in response to NATO united the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This rival leader of the Nationalists fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese Civil War.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
This war began when a communist northern force invaded a democratic southern neighbor in 1950.
What is the Korean War?
Because of widespread destruction and economic collapse during WWII, these European nations lost global dominance.
What are Britain and France?
These two countries were the first to receive U.S. aid under the Truman Doctrine.
What are Greece and Turkey?
This Cold War event involved Western Allies flying supplies into a blocked city for nearly a year.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This term describes the competition between superpowers to build more powerful weapons.
What is the arms race?
This economic campaign attempted to rapidly industrialize China through collectivized farming.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This line still divides North and South Korea today following a Cold War stalemate.
What is the 38th parallel?
The U.S. supported this type of system, while the USSR supported communism, creating ideological conflict.
What is capitalism (or democracy)?
The Soviet Union rejected this program because it believed it would increase this rival nation’s influence in Europe.
What is the United States?
The Soviet Union created this crisis by cutting off land access to West Berlin in an attempt to force Allied withdrawal.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
These types of weapons created constant global fear because they could destroy entire cities instantly.
What are nuclear weapons?
This major split between two communist powers weakened global communist unity during the Cold War.
What is the Sino-Soviet Split?
This 1962 crisis brought the world closest to nuclear war after missiles were placed near the U.S.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This fundamental Cold War tension stemmed from each side fearing the global spread of the other’s political and economic system.
What is ideological conflict (or fear of ideological expansion)?
This U.S. program sent over $12 billion to rebuild Western European economies after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This city symbolized Cold War tension because it was a divided democratic outpost inside a communist-controlled region.
What is Berlin?
This outcome of the arms race created a situation where neither superpower could use nuclear weapons without risking total destruction.
What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)?
This movement used young Red Guards to attack traditional culture and enforce communist ideology.
What is a Cultural Revolution?
This theory justified U.S. involvement in Vietnam by suggesting that one nation falling to communism would lead others to follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This Cold War event in 1961 physically prevented citizens from fleeing a communist country, becoming the most visible symbol of the division between Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?