Cold War Alliances
This military alliance was created by the United States and Western European nations in 1949 to defend against Soviet expansion.
What is NATO?
This term describes a conflict in which major powers support opposing sides in another country instead of fighting each other directly.
What is a proxy war?
This term describes the competition between the U.S. and USSR to build more powerful nuclear weapons.
What is the arms race?
This 1948–1949 event involved the United States flying supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blocked land routes.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This economic and technological transformation began in Great Britain around 1750 and shifted production from hand labor to machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This communist military alliance was created in 1955 in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This Asian conflict (1950–1953) saw North Korea supported by China and the USSR while South Korea was supported by the United States and the United Nations.
What is the Korean War?
This Cold War idea meant that if one country launched nuclear weapons, both sides would be destroyed.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This wall built in 1961 physically divided communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This system occurs when a powerful country extends political, economic, or military control over weaker regions.
What is imperialism?
The Cold War division of Europe was often described as being separated by this metaphorical line.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This Southeast Asian war involved communist forces and the Viet Cong fighting against U.S.-backed armies.
What is the Vietnam War?
The development of this weapon at the end of World War II dramatically increased global military power and fear.
What is the atomic bomb?
This 1989 event symbolized the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
European competition for land, resources, and influence in Africa during the late 1800s is known as this event.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This city became the symbolic center of Cold War division because it was split between communist and democratic governments.
What is Berlin?
During the Cold War, the U.S. supported this group of fighters in Afghanistan against Soviet forces.
Who were the Mujahideen?
This Cold War policy focused on preventing the spread of communism and often justified the buildup of nuclear weapons.
What is containment?
This policy encouraged openness and transparency in Soviet society.
What is glasnost?
This global conflict (1939–1945) involved the Allied Powers and Axis Powers and dramatically reshaped international politics.
What is World War II?
This global rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union lasted roughly from 1945 to 1991.
What is the Cold War?
Proxy wars occurred because the United States and Soviet Union wanted to avoid this type of war between nuclear powers.
What is direct nuclear war?
This international agreement between the United States and Soviet Union attempted to limit the number of nuclear weapons each country could possess.
What are the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation) treaties?
This conflict was primarily ideological, between capitalism and this economic system.
What is communism?
Militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and assassination are remembered by historians using this acronym explaining the causes of World War I.
What is MANIA?