This is an economic (money) system in which trade, industry and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the goal of making profits.
What is Capitalism
100
The Soviet Union placed missiles on this country's soil
What is Cuba
100
A state of tension between the US and Soviet Union in which no actual fighting occurred, and lasted for 40 years.
What is The Cold War
100
In the 1950s this was the competition between USSR and USA to see who could launch missiles from space first
What is The Space Race
100
This was a plan by the British and US to get goods to the city in East Germany they controlled when the USSR blocked the roads in.
What is The Berlin Airlift
200
The President responsible for solving the Cuban missile crisis. He is also the 35th president of the United States of America.
Who is John F. Kennedy
200
This nation sent it's Nationalist party to Taiwan after the Communist party took control of the majority of the country
What is China
200
Bomb developed by USA that is 10 times more powerful than the Atom bomb
What is the H-bomb (hydrogen bomb)
200
This plan written by a USA president looked to send aid to Turkey and Greece after WWII to help them get back on their feet.
What is The Truman Doctrine
300
This is an economic system that believes the state should own all business and industry. There are no classes. Everyone is viewed as the same.
What is Communism
300
This country divided itself and is still recognized as two separate countries with two very different governments today
What is Korea
300
This country sent the first satellite into space named Sputnik
What is the USSR
300
The US and eleven other countries made this alliance that was Anti-Communist and promised aid to one another in the event of a Communist attack
What is NATO
400
British leader who coined the phrase “Behind the iron curtain” to describe area of the continent under communist control.
Who is Winston Churchill
400
This term was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism in Europe and Asia.
What is containment
400
Many people took part in peaceful protests because they opposed this war that the USA got involved in
What is The Vietnam War
400
Name of the competition the Soviet Union and the U.S. had where they decided to keep building up their supply of nuclear weapons.
What is the Nuclear arms race
400
US approved document that gave economic relief to any country in Western Europe after WWII and the bad winter of 1946-47
What is The Marshall Plan
500
Soviet Union and other Communist controlled countries built this military alliance in response to NATO.
What is The Warsaw pact
500
This divided families, governments and freedoms almost over night
What is The Berlin Wall
500
Because of the Cuban Missile Crisis, many American families were told to build these in their basements to be safe from a nuclear attack.
What is a bomb or fallout shelter
500
Since the USA got involved in the ______ war, and many people at home were angry, America's economy started to fall.