Important People
The dictator of the Soviet Union who believed that he should control a majority of Europe after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
A policy of fighting by using money and words instead of guns and soldiers.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The symbol of the differences between communist and noncommunist countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
They spied on and tortured many citizens of East Germany.
Who are the Stasi?
He was the leader of a small island that successfully led a revolution and then became allies with the Soviet Union.
Who is Fidel Castro?
An organization set up to military defense in Europe in the event of an attack by the Soviet Union.
What is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Ordinary people and businesses control the production of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
A conflict in Southeast Asia. The U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, but failed.
What is the Vietnam War?
The president who took over after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and who tried to stop the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
When the U.S. used planes to drop food and supplies to help the people of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources.
What is communism?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is a cease-fire?
A communist leader who tried to reform and modernize his country but ended up causing it to cease to exist.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
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 __________________.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President that feared a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and ordered a blockade around Cuba.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The war that was not supported by many Americans. Many Americans started demonstrations and protests for the soldiers to be brought back home.
What is the Vietnam War?
The Soviet leader who helped Fidel Castro set up a communist government in Cuba and ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Proxy War in East Asia that had one side fighting under the banner of the United Nations.
What is the Korean War?
During this more bombs were dropped in a few months than in the whole of the Second World War.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
The U.S. president who promised to bring the troops home from Vietnam; he was elected in 1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?