Beginnings of the Cold War
This meeting in 1945 helped decide what would happen to Europe after World War II.
What is the Yalta Conference
A system where the government controls the economy and there is usually one political party
What is communism
The war between North and South Korea began in this year.
What is 1950
Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This city in Germany was divided between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies.
What is Berlin?
This country wanted democratic governments in Europe after WWII.
What is the United States
U.S. policy to stop communism from spreading to other countries.
What is containment
This country supported South Korea during the war.
What is the United States
U.S. president who announced the Truman Doctrine.
Who is Harry Truman?
This wall built in 1961 divided East and West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The Soviet Union wanted countries in Eastern Europe to follow this political system.
What is communism
A war where larger countries support smaller countries fighting each other.
What is a proxy war
North Korea was supported by these two communist countries.
What are China and the Soviet Union?
Soviet leader who threatened the West during the Cold War and led during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This continent had many countries controlled by the Soviet Union after WWII.
What is Eastern Europe?
This former ally of the United States became its main rival after WWII.
What is the Soviet Union
The imaginary line dividing communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain
The line that divided North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel
U.S. president during the Korean War.
Who is Harry Truman?
This Asian country was divided after World War II and later fought a war between the North and South.
What is Korea?
The Cold War was called “cold” because the U.S. and Soviet Union did not fight this kind of war directly.
What is a direct military war
Competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build more nuclear weapons.
What is the arms race
The Korean War ended in 1953 with this agreement that stopped the fighting.
What is an armistice
U.S. president who created NASA and used brinkmanship during the Cold War.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This U.S. program sent money to rebuild Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?