Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
This country is a superpower that tried to contain communism.
What is the U.S. ?
An economic policy in which everything is shared fairly.
What is communism?
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
This was a border that was approved by Nikita Khrushchev, and it split Berlin in half and made it almost impossible for citizens of east Berlin to escape into free west Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only possible, but likely. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The communist country the U.S. was most afraid of.
What is the Soviet Union?
This is one of the primary reasons communism didn't work for many countries; its citizens didn't feel compelled to do this.
What is innovate?
This war was known as the "first television war."
What is the Vietnam War?
This began when North Korea invaded South Korea, and many felt that the Cold War had turned “hot.”
What is the Korean War?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
This policy was created by President Harry Truman to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A military agreement between eastern communist countries that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
American citizens began to distrust the ___________ after watching (on television) what was really taking place in the Vietnam War.
What is the government?
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This series of attacks was the Vietcong’s largest and most damaging campaign of the entire war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The reason the U.S. decided to help South Korea fight North Korea during the Korean War.
What is contain or stop the spread of communism?
A multi-national military alliance that was created to protect non-communistic nations from the Soviet Union’s attempt to establish more communistic nations.
What is NATO?
Americans wanted out of the war because soldiers were _____________ in a war that they believe we had no business getting involved in.
What is dying?
The was the U.S. and Great Britain's response to Stalin’s blockade of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This was a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over ideological differences.
What is the Cold War?
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.
What is censored?
This person wanted to end communists activity in the United States, so he used unproven smear tactics that ultimately led to him being censored by the U.S. Senate.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
This President almost started a nuclear war with Nikita Khrushchev.
Who was President John F. Kennedy?
When President Kennedy learned about the missile silos being built by the Soviets, he ordered a _______________ and demanded the removal of the missiles.
What is a naval blockade?