Causes
Stalin built a wall dividing East & West Germany.
What is the Iron Curtain? What is the Berlin Wall?
This vocab term means that when one ally is attacked, all the allies must go to war with them.
What is collective security?
This conflict of the Cold War was in the Middle East (Egypt) over a trade port.
What is the Suez Canal crisis?
To prevent communism from growing.
What is containment?
Name the country that was the FIRST country to have a SUCCESSFUL satellite into space.
What is the USSR?
Germany was divided into 4 zones of occupation.
What is checkpoint Charlie?
The name of the treaty that was between the USSR & its satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This conflict was between the North & South of a country. The country is still divided to this day.
What is the Korean war?
The US will now take on the role of leader of the world.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Name the country that was the FIRST country to have a HUMAN being walk on the moon.
What is the US?
Name BOTH of the conferences that were held between the US, Great Britain, & USSR BEFORE WWII was over.
What is the Potsdam conference? What is the Yalta conference?
Name 4 countries that are a part of NATO.
What is the US, Canada, Great Britain, & France?
This conflict was between the North & South of a country. The country did unify before the war was over.
What is the Vietnam war?
The US can buy influence in Europe through economic aid.
What is the Marshall plan?
Define what an ICBM is.
What is an intercontinental ballistic missile?
The US stepped up to help the Germans when Stalin put a blockade around the city. Name the vocab term.
What is the Berlin airlift?
Name BOTH of the Alliances in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Rio Pact? What is the Organization of American States?
This conflict was in the Caribbean where the Soviet Union had a weapon pointed at the US.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Policy of having such a strong military power that no one would attack.
What is deterrence?
This is the belief that the US will spend endless amounts of money on our superiority on the world stage.
What is the military industrial complex?
Name ONE thing that Stalin promised at the conferences that he did NOT uphold.
What are free elections?
Name all 5 PERMANENT members of the UN security council.
What is China, USSR, US, Great Britain, & France?
This conflict was the in the Middle East. The Muhajideen ended up defeating the Communists.
What is the Soviet Afghan war?
Policy of getting as close to war as possible without actually going to war.
What is brinkmanship?
Name the President who made the claim that the US will have a man on the moon in less than 10 years.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?