Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
The term for the competition between two countries to have the most nuclear weapons
What was the Nuclear Arms Race?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
Weaker nations that are ruled by another, more powerful nation.
What are satellite states?
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.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The imaginary line that separated Eastern (Communist) Europe from Western (Democratic) Europe
What was the Iron Curtain?
The name for delivery of supplies by the Allied Planes across the Soviet lines into West Berlin
What was the Berlin Airlift?
A conflict fought by one or more major powers that do not themselves become directly involved
What is a proxy war?
The Premiere of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was Nikita Khruschev?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
The event that reunited East and West Berlin into one city at the end of the Cold War?
What was the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
What was the policy of sending economic aid to assist Europe after WWII?
What is the Marshall Plan?
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when the policy of Glasnost was implemented?
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and th US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
The name for charges of Communism against U.S. citizens without any real evidence
What was McCarthyism?
The term used to describe marches, sit-ins, and other protests of the Vietnam War by U.S. citizens
What was the Anti-War Movement?
What was the US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro in 1961?
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
The term for the organization of countries that was formed to help nations resist Communism
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
What were the names of 2 wartime conferences held to determine the vision of post-war Europe?
What are Yalta & Potsdam?
What are the names of the economic reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev?
What is Perestroika?