Superpowers
After WWII, these two nations emerged as the world’s dominant powers.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This imaginary line divided communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Competition between the US and USSR to build stronger nuclear weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
This country became communist in 1949 and increased US fears in Asia.
What is China?
The Cold War battles fought indirectly through other countries were called these.
What are proxy wars?
This economic system allows people rather than government to control jobs and money.
What is capitalism?
President Truman’s policy aimed at stopping communism from spreading.
What is containment (or Truman Doctrine)?
The policy where both sides knew a nuclear war would destroy everyone.
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
Korea was divided along this line after WWII.
What is the 38th parallel?
This 1962 crisis brought the world close to nuclear war for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This political and economic system aimed for a classless society but was associated in the slides with authoritarian rule.
What is communism?
This 1948 event brought supplies into West Berlin by air after Stalin blocked access.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This is the name of the first satellite in orbit
What is Sputnik?
This war ended in 1953 with an armistice and a demilitarized zone.
What is the Korean War?
Communist leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This military alliance, formed in 1949, was made up of Western European countries and the U.S.
What is NATO?
Built in 1961, this structure became a major symbol of Cold War division.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This was the major goal of the Space Race.
What is putting a man on the moon?
This communist leader attempted to reunite Vietnam under communist rule.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The belief that if one Asian nation became communist, nearby nations would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This Cold War leader introduced Glasnost and Perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This US economic recovery program helped rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
By the 1970s, this period reduced tensions between the US and USSR.
What is detente?
By 1969, approximately this many American troops were fighting in Vietnam.
What is more than 500,000 troops?
This conflict became the Soviet Union’s version of America’s experience in Vietnam.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?