Cold War 1
A period of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without direct fighting.
What was the cold war?
What year did the Cold War begin?
1945
What type of war did the U.S and USSR fight instead of direct combat?
A proxy war
This even took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What symbol divided east and west Berlin?
The Berlin wall
This proxy war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting.
What is the Vietnam War?
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
The symbolic division between western and eastern Europe during the period of the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Which two elements were discovered after flying a jet plane through a nuclear mushroom cloud?
What are 99 and 100, Einsteinium and Firmium
Senator McCarthy became a tireless crusader against Communism in the early 1950s, sparking a US period known as....
What is "the red scare"?
This Russian term is the policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information in the Soviet Union.
What is glasnost?
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the ideological and physical barrier dividing Europe between East and West.
Who is Iron Curtain?
Organization of allied nations who joined forces in the West to support any threats of Communism.
What is NATO?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall plan?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory or Domino Effect?
This 1948-1949 event saw the Soviet Union blockading West Berlin, leading to a massive airlift by the Western Allies.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This was the event in which college students protested, demanding a democracy in China. You may recognise this from an image of a man with groceries standing in the way of several tanks.
What is Tiananmen Square?
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.
Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan?
US aeronautics program initiated by Reagan during the Cold War in order to compete with the USSR.
What is NASA?
What was containment?
A U.S policy to stop the spread of communism.
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was charged with this duty.
Hunting down and accusing any potential communist of infiltrating into America.
This US foreign policy doctrine, announced in 1947, pledged to support countries resisting communist pressure.
What is the Truman Doctrine
What role did nuclear weapons play in cold war tensions?
They created fear of mutual destruction
This Soviet intelligence agency was responsible for gathering intelligence and conducting covert operations during the Cold War
What is the KGB
How did the Cold war affect non aligned nations?
They were pressured to choose sides or received aid from both.
Two stark similar conflicts saw the U.S. and its allies supporting South against communist North and its Communist allies
What is Vietnam and Korea
Why did the Soviet Union view the Marshall plan as a threat?
It increased U.S. influence in Europe and weakened communism
If you were a U.S. chemist or physisist during the 40s, you would have been taken from regular work and drafted into what project?
The Manhatten Project