Conflicts
This was the first major proxy war between the West and the Communists
Korean War
What country was trying to contain communism?
the U.S.
M.A.D stands for what?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
U.S. and the USSR
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the government
House Un-American Activities Committee
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this event, nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Name of the ideological barrier between Eastern and Western Europe/ capitalist and communist countries
Iron Curtain
What is the name of the event where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
Bay of Pigs
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
Sputnik
It is the organization of collective defense against communism.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
A war instigated by a major world power, but is not directly fought by the major power
Proxy War
The idea that if one country falls to communism, all the countries around it will fall as well
domino theory
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Vietnam.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
During the space race, Kennedy’s goal for the nation was to be the first to
Land a man on the moon
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.
United Nations (UN)
The 38th parallel became an important dividing line between
North and South Korea
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
Containment
Name of the project that researched and developed the US nuclear bomb
Manhattan Project
Name of the rocket carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon
Apollo 11
The United States government agency that's goal is to advance science and technology in space
NASA
The strategy used by the United States in Vietnam to find Vietcong soldiers
Search and Destroy
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
the Truman Doctrine
What the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
Nuclear weapons
The year the United States landed the first man on the moon
1969
Name of the communist alliance formed during the Cold War
Warsaw Pact