Cold War Basics
What was the symbolic division between Communist East and Democratic West
Iron Curtain
The U.S. plan to give money to Europe after WWII to stop communism
Marshall Plan
The U.S. agency created after Sputnik to lead space exploration
NASA
This chemical defoliant used in Vietnam caused cancer and birth defects
Agent Orange
This U.S. president ended the Vietnam War with his policy of Vietnamization.
Nixon
This Cold War term describes when two countries fight through other countries instead of directly
proxy wars
The theory that if one country became communist, others would follow
Domino Theory
The U.S. mission that landed the first humans on the moon
Apollo 11
Some Americans who opposed the Vietnam War avoided the draft by fleeing to this neighboring country.
Canada
The country where the U.S. secretly agreed to remove missiles after the Cuban Missile Crisis
Turkey
This 1948 U.S. response to a Soviet blockade involved flying tons of supplies into West Berlin for nearly a year.
Berlin Airlift
This 1947 policy, named after the president at the time, promised U.S. support to countries resisting communist takeovers.
Truman Doctrine
This Soviet satellite became the first man-made object to orbit Earth in 1957, sparking the Space Race.
Sputnik
The country that controlled Vietnam before World War II
France
As part of the prisoner exchange after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the U.S. sent this item to Cuba.
baby food
The Cold War policy that said nuclear war would destroy both sides
Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D)
The military alliance formed by the U.S. and Western nations in 1949
NATO
Launched in 1990, this Cold War-era telescope is known for taking stunning photos of galaxies, stars, and deep space.
Hubble Space Telescope
The communist leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. considered these two main courses of action to deal with Soviet missiles in Cuba.
naval blockade and a military airstrike
This line of latitude divided North and South Korea before and after the Korean War.
38th parallel
The Soviet-led military alliance created in response to NATO
Warsaw Pact
This astronaut was the first American to orbit Earth.
John Glenn
The event that marked the end of the Vietnam War in 1975
Fall of Saigon
This U.S. agency staged a coup against South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, for brutally cracking down on Buddhist monks and losing public support.
C.I.A.