Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
Korea War
What country was trying to contain communism?
USA
What are ICBMS
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
USSR and USA
What was the outcome of the Chinese Civil War?
Communism won out on the mainland
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
Cuban Missile Crisis
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
USSR, Soviet Union
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
Bay of Pigs
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
Sputnik
What is the Detente?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
Vietnam War
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947. (think of the president at that time)
Truman Doctrine
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Vietnam from communism. (Where did the Vietnam war start)
Gulf of Tonkin
NASA responded to the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____. Think of the movie you watched in Math. What were those missions called?
Apollo 11
Who gave the Iron Curtain Speech?
Winston Churchill
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and th US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict? (Thoughts)
Ideological Conflict
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
Containment
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
U-2
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Richard Nixon
Define Satelite Nation
A nation being controlled or guided by a much stronger nation
What years did the Cold War start and end.
List 3 examples of successful contaiments of communism
Berlin Blockade, Cuban missile Crisis, Korean War, Afghanistan War, Marshall Plan, NATO
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
Nuclear Bombs
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
USA!!!!
What was the significance of the Berlin Wall? Who famously urged Gorbachev to tear it down?
It represented the divide between communism and democracy. Ronald Reagan said to tear down that wall