Key Terms
This Country is a Capitalist Democracy
United States
This term refers to America and the Soviet Union pushing each other to the brink, or edge of war.
Brinkmanship
This theory states that if one country in a region falls to communism all the countries around it will fall to communism.
Dominio Theory
This country launched the first satellite into space.
The Soviet Union
This group lost their jobs in factories after WWII.
Women
This country was a communist dictatorship.
The Soviet Union
When Soviet missiles were discovered in Communist Cuba, President John F. Kennedy did this to the island.
Blockaded it.
This was the communist Korea
North Korea
Sputnik was
A Satellite
This law gave veterans money to go to college or get job training.
GI Bill of Rights
This was an alliance of western democracies allied with the United States.
NATO
This man was the leader of communist Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Fidel Castro
This war ended in a Stalemate
Korean War
This country won the Space Race by placing a man on the moon in July 1969.
The United States of America
President Eisenhower helped to create this system that led to the growth of the transportation industry.
Interstate Highway System
This was an alliance of Eastern European communist countries allied with the Soviet Union.
The Warsaw Pact
This term refers to the practice of America and the Soviet Union stockpiling nuclear weapons.
The Arms Race
America withdrew its troops from this war leading to a communist takeover of the city of Saigon
Vietnam War
This man led the the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb.
Robert Oppenheimer
America helped to create this organization designed to prevent future global war and keep the peace around the world.
The United Nations
This was America's plan to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
The Marshall Plan
The Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from Cuba if America removed missiles from
Turkey
This policy says that America should work to stop the spread of communism, keeping it where it is.
Containment.
This Press gave President Reagan's plan to use Outer Space to defend against a missile attack this nickname.