Cold war 1
This 1947 U.S. policy promised aid to countries resisting communism.
Answer: What is the Truman Doctrine?
This speech by Winston Churchill popularized the term “Iron Curtain.”
What is the “Iron Curtain Speech”?
This U.S. senator became famous for accusing Americans of being communists without strong evidence.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
This Southeast Asian conflict escalated greatly under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
What is the Vietnam War?
This wall divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This communist country was divided into North and South after World War II.
What is Korea?
This failed 1961 invasion attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This Eastern European military alliance was created by the Soviet Union in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This 1948–1949 operation supplied West Berlin by air after a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This U.S.-Soviet confrontation in 1962 nearly led to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This war from 1950–1953 involved North Korea, South Korea, China, and the United States.
What is the Korean War?
This term described the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore space.
What is the Space Race?
This 1989 event symbolized the end of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This American astronaut became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This alliance of Western nations was formed in 1949 to counter Soviet power.
What is the NATO?
This U.S. program gave economic aid to rebuild Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This U.S. president challenged the Soviet Union to “tear down this wall!”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This espionage agency of the Soviet Union was known for intelligence and secret police activities.
What is the KGB?
This country dissolved in 1991, officially ending the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
This Soviet leader introduced reforms called glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This Soviet satellite launched in 1957 started the Space Race.
What is Sputnik 1?
This communist leader ruled China after 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This doctrine threatened massive retaliation with nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
What is mutually assured destruction?
This term refers to a conflict fought indirectly through other countries instead of direct combat between superpowers.
What is a proxy war?