Cold War 1
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.
What is NATO?
The main country that was trying to "contain" communism.
What is the U.S.?
The communist country that the U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union?
This policy included providing military aid, ideological training, and resources to communist-aligned groups or revolutionary movements in different parts of the world, particularly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
What is the expansionism?
Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created their own international military organization to counter-act what the US and other western nations were doing during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This president faced the Cuban Missile Crisis and got the U.S. the closest its ever been to a nuclear war.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The leader of the Cuban revolution.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This approach involves deliberately taking a situation to the point of extreme tension or potential conflict, without crossing the threshold into outright war or catastrophe.
What is brinkmanship?
This war ended in a stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The crisis that lasted thirteen days.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
These movements sought to gain independence from colonial rule, fight against oppressive regimes, or promote social, political, and economic changes within their countries. They often played a significant role in the global geopolitical landscape of the Cold War era.
What are liberation movements?
What does SALT stands for which were a series of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War aimed at controlling and limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
The fact that the nuclear weapons that were being created by the US and the Soviet Union were extremely powerful and dangerous made the ______ so terrifying.
What is the Arms Race?
This country sought help from the United States to overthrow dictatorial regimes in a neighboring country.
What is South Korea?
A foreign policy approach adopted by certain countries, particularly during the Cold War era. It involves maintaining neutrality and not joining with any major power bloc or alliance.
Who is Non Alignment?
This refers to a period of improved relations, relaxation of tensions, and reduced hostility between nations, especially those that had been in conflict or engaged in a Cold War rivalry. The term originated from the French word meaning "relaxation."
What are the détente?
This foreign policy aided Greece and Turkey in order to contain communism.
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
What is Containment?
This was the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union regarding achievements in the field of new technology, especially the building of space craft and rocket ships.
What is the Space Race?
A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The witch hunt undertaken in the United States to eliminate "communist" government members.
What was McCarthyism?
The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They gathered to decide how to administer Germany. The goals of the conference also included establishing the postwar order, solving issues on the peace treaty, and countering the effects of the war.
What was the Potsdam conference?
Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
The two sets of ideologies that competed with each other in the Cold War were
What are communism and capitalism?
It was held February 4–11, 1945, as the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganisation of Germany and Europe.
What was the Yalta conference?
This action caused the United States to engage in military action in Korea.
What is North Korea's invasion of South Korea?
This nickname for a missile defense system that could intercept and destroy incoming nuclear missiles before they reached their targets was introduced by Reagan in 1983. This futuristic and ambitious defense program envisioned using advanced technology, including space-based systems like lasers and missile interceptors, to protect the United States from potential missile attacks.
What is "Star Wars"?