Cold War Leaders
This U.S president announced a policy of containing communism in 1947.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
This airlift supplied West Berlin after a Soviet blockade in 1948-49.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The policy of preventing the spread of communism.
What is containment?
The German city divided into East and West during the Cold War.
What is Berlin?
This Soviet leader installed nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
This conflict from 1950-1953 ended with Korea divided at the 38th Parallel.
What was the Korean War?
Competition between nations to build more weapons.
What is an arm race?
This island nation was the site of a major missle crisis in 1962.
What is Cuba
This U.S president challenged the Soviet Union with the phrase "Tear down this wall!"
Who was Ronald Reagan?
This 1962 confrontation brought the U.S and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A state that acts as a buffer between rival powers.
What is a buffer state?
Headquarters of the Soviet government during the Cold war.
What us Moscow?
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
This war saw heavy U.S involvement in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and the 1970s.
What was the Vietnam War?
The easing of tensions between the U.S and Soviet Union in the 1970s.
What is detente?
This Asian peninsula remained divided after the Korean War.
What is the Korean Peninsula?
This Chinese communist leader led the People's Republic of China after 1949.
Who was Mao Zedong?
This event in 1989 symbolized the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What was the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
The threat of massive retaliation that discouraged nuclear war.
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
This wall physically divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?