Cold War
The superpowers involved in the Cold War conflict.
Who was the U.S.A. and Soviet Union?
Competition between the United States and The Soviet Union to develop space capabilities.
What is The Space Race?
A state of political hostility between countries, where threats are exchanged, propaganda is shared, and any other form of hostility outside of open warfare.
What is a Cold war?
Leader of the USSR during the Cold War.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
Chemical weapon used by the US in Vietnam jungles to burn down sections of forests and brush
What is napalm?
The winning candidate in the 1960s presidential election.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
Name of the first satellite sent into space, by the USSR.
What is Sputnik?
constructed to separate East Berlin from West Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
Foreign policy strategy used by the United States during the cold war, to stop the spread of Communism.
What is the Policy of Containment?
An economic system that is centered around common ownership of goods and wealth; USSR economy.
What is Communism?
Leader of the Cuban government whenever it was communist
Who was Fidel Castro?
conflict where missiles were being held in a nearby country to the United States.
What was The Cuban Missile Crisis?
Theory that suggest that if one country falls to Communism neighboring countries will also fall to communism.
What is The Domino Theory?
An economic system where you have a free market; US economic system.
What is Capitalism?
Time in the 1940s and 50s of heightened hysteria regarding communism, which included a campaign of spreading fear.
What is the Second Red Scare?
Plan for the United States to provide economic assistance to help countries to recover from World War II.
What was The Marshall Plan?
Alliance the united states joined after World War II to protect members from attacks.
What is NATO?
Policy in which the United States offered military and financial assistance to countries threatened by Communism.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
Mutual defense treaty signed amongst Communist countries.
What is The Warsaw Pact?
Failed invasion by Cuban Exiles to overthrow the Cuban government, which the United States helped facilitate.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The two wars in which the United States acted on the Domino Theory and tried to protect other countries against Communism
What is The Vietnam War and The Korean War?
The shooting down of a US plane while it was conducting aerial images of the USSR
What is the 1960 U-2 incident?
Political metaphor, which symbolized the division of Europe into two separate areas.
What was the Iron Curtain?
What is Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater?
strategy which called for withdrawing US soldiers from Vietnam and preparing south Vietnamese troops to take over the fighting.
What is Vietnamization?