Cold War 1
The superpowers involved in the Cold War conflict
U.S.A. and Soviet Union
Competition between the United States and The Soviet Union to develop space capabilities.
Space Race
State of tension between two countries without any actual direct fighting
Cold War
Leader of the USSR at the start of the Cold War
Joseph Stalin
Event that marked the weakening of communist control in Eastern Europe
The stockpiling of nuclear armaments
Arms Race
Name of the first satellite sent into space, by the USSR.
Sputnik
Constructed to separate East Berlin from West Berlin and to prevent East Berliners from escaping
Berlin Wall
Foreign policy strategy used by the United States during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism
Containment
A political system in which the government owns and controls resources and methods of production; USSR economy.
Communism
Plan for the United States to provide economic assistance to help European countries to recover from World War II
The Marshall Plan
Conflict where missiles were being held by the Soviet Union in a nearby country to the United States.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Theory that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall to communism
The Domino Theory
An economic system where you have a free market; US economic system
Capitalism
Time in the 1940s and 50s of heightened hysteria regarding communism, which included McCarthyism
Red Scare
This was the ending to the Vietnam War
U.S. withdrew after 23 years of fighting; communists eventually win
Alliance the United States joined after World War II to protect members from attacks.
NATO
Policy in which the United States offered financial assistance, weapons, and training to anti-communist groups
Reagan Doctrine
Soviet Union's response to the creation of NATO
The Warsaw Pact
American and Great British response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
The two wars in which the United States acted on the Domino Theory and tried to prevent the spread of communism
Vietnam War and Korean War
Competition between the United States and The Soviet Union to develop space capabilities.
Space Race
Political metaphor which symbolized the division of Europe into two separate areas
Iron Curtain
Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms to Soviet Union
Glasnost and Perestroika
This was the ending of the Korean War
Stalemate; Korea still divided at the 38th parallel