This refers to approximately 45 years of intense conflict between the US and the USSR that never actually resulted in the two countries fighting each other directly.
What is the Cold War.
100
Organized by the US, this was a failed attempt to overthrow Cuba's communist leader Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion.
100
This was the first time the United States was involved in a war to stop the spread of communism and lasted from 1950 - 1953.
What is the Korean War.
100
This was our foreign policy during the Cold War - its goal was to contain the spread of communism.
What is The Truman Doctrine.
100
Gorbachev's policy of social reform, allowing people to speak openly and honestly; a movement toward the end of the Cold War.
What is glasnost.
200
These are the years in which the Cold War occurred.
What is between 1945 and 1991.
200
This crisis arose when the USSR set up a blockade of Berlin; the US responded by dropping supplies by air (as much as 8,000 tons/day) to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift.
200
This is where Korea remained divided after the Korean War.
What is the 38th Parallel.
200
This was the "figurative" division of Europe, and came to represent mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.
What is the iron curtain.
200
Near the end of the Cold War, this is approximately how much the Soviet Union was spending on defense.
What is 80%.
300
Many historians argue the Cold War began at this conference in February of 1945, where Stalin agreed to allow free elections in eastern Europe, a promise in which he later broke.
What is the Yalta Conference.
300
This was an organization/alliance consisting of the Soviet Union and 8 Eastern European nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact.
300
This was closest the world came to nuclear war, a result of Russia sending nuclear weapons to Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis (October of 1962)
300
This was a plan in which the US gave economic aid to European countries in order to prevent them from falling to communism.
What is the Marshall Plan.
300
This was another of Gorbachev's policies, which means economic restructuring, and allowed people to open small private businesses.
What is perestroika.
400
This was the first satellite launched into space, and it caused an incredible amount of panic in the United States.
What is Sputnik.
400
This is organization consisting of the United States and 13 other democratic countries. It still exists today.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
400
This general advocated the use of nuclear weapons against China during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur.
400
This represents a "literal" division of Europe during the Cold War and existed until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall.
400
The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, but this is when Germany was officially reunited.
What is October 3, 1990.
500
These are the differing ideologies that existed during the Cold War.
What is capitalism/democracy (US and its allies) vs. communism/dictatorship (USSR and its allies).
500
After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 in support of communist rebels, this was one way in which the United States protested.
What is to boycott the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow.
500
Lasting from 1963-1974, and costing 58,000 American lives, this was a very controversial war in which the United States failed to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Vietnam War.
500
This was the United States belief that if we allowed one country was allowed to fall to communism, then potentially the whole world would fall, like a row of...
What is the Domino Theory.
500
In the video "Atomic Cafe", this is what Bert the Turtle told school kids around the country to do if a nuclear attack was coming.