Origins of the Cold War
What are the USA and USSR?
The Soviet blockade of this city led to a massive Western airlift.
What is West Berlin?
U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Korea was divided at what line of latitude.
What is the 38th parallel?
A conflict without direct fighting between superpowers
What is a Cold War?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Soviet leader known for de-Stalinization
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This leader helped overthrow the pro US government in Cuba and begin a communist regime.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The buildup of weapons between the U.S. and USSR
What is the arms race?
This was the ideological and physical boundary separating Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The USSR began construction on this in 1961?
What is the Berlin Wall?
U.S. president who introduced containment and provided aid for Greece and Turkey?
Who is Harry Truman?
Communist North Korea was supported by this country.
What is China?
This restructuring policy changed the Soviet economy.
What is perestroika?
This plan provided economic aid to rebuild Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
This failed invasion attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Pay of Pigs Invasion?
This was the leader of the Soviet Union that created the policies of glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The USA and USSR were unsuccessful in Vietnam and Afghanistan respectively because if this type of warfare used by their enemies.
What is guerilla warfare?
Policy of reducing Cold War tensions.
What is détente?
This alliance was created in 1949 to defend Western Europe and this alliance was created in response?
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
This group defeated the Soviets after their long and costly invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
Who are the Mujahideen?
President of the United States that made diplomatic trips to China and Moscow.
Whos is Richard Nixon?
This leader of North Vietnam was able to unify the country under a communist government.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This doctrine meant that the use of nuclear weapons would lead to the total annihilation of both the attacker and the attacked.
What is MAD (mutually assured destruction)?