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Theory proposed by Truman that started the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Communist leader of China during most of the Cold War.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Leader of Russia during the earliest years of the Cold War.
Who is Stalin?
Germany was split into this many sectors after WWII.
What is four?
A competition between countries to see who can stockpile the most weapons.
What is an arms race?
In response to Sputnik, the US launched this agency to keep up in the Space Race.
What is NASA?
Mao Zedong's 1960s program to bring his own brand of Communist culture to China.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
Russian secret police - they were experts in espionage.
What is the KGB?
What are West Germany and East Germany?
Willingness to go to the brink of war with another country.
Policy where the US gave $$ to Western Europe to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Name of the guidebook to the Cultural Revolution.
What is the Little Red Book?
Leader of Russia during the last years of the Cold War.
Who is Gorbachev?
East Germany built this barrier to keep refugees from fleeing to West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Name of the metaphorical border between the democratic West and communist East, coined by Winston Churchill.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This the name of the alliance between the US and Western European countries.
What is NATO?
Mao Zedong's 1958 program to reorganize the industry and agriculture of China - resulted in approx. 40 million deaths.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This is the name of the alliance of Eastern European countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The fall of this icon in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Kennedy did this when he blocked war materials from being shipped into Cuba.
What is a blockade?
Name one condition the United States had to agree to to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is:
1. never invade Cuba
2. remove nuclear submarines from the Atlantic
3. remove missiles from Turkey
This militaristic group helped enforce the changes of the Cultural Revolution.
What is the Red Guards?
Name of the arms treaties between the US and USSR where both agreed to limit their weapons.
What is SALT?
During this event in 1948-1949, West Germany flew supplies into the city of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
US idea that if one Asian country falls to Communism, its neighbors will also fall to Communism.
What is the domino theory?