Cold War Leaders
Leader who created the Containment policy, and Marshall plan
Who was Harry Truman?
A war in Korea with sides backed by the US and the Soviets
What was the Korean War?
An artificial waterway in Egypt that connects the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
What is the Suez Canal?
A wall that separated the capitalist West and communist East
What was the Berlin Wall?
US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries- An alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country
What is NATO?
Infamous leader who created communist governments in East Europe after WW2
Who was Joseph Stalin?
Communist rebels in South Vietnam that American troops fought against
Who were the Vietcong?
A policy by President Eisenhower created to protect the Middle East from a communist invasion
What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?
An attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain, and the US to travel to East Berlin
What was the Berlin Blockade?
An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations in response to the NATO, supporting communism
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Leader who accepted missiles from the Soviet Union to protect nation against US influence
Who was Fidel Castro?
The theory that if one nation goes under Communist control, then neighboring countries will also become under Communist control
What is the Domino Theory?
Egyptian president who nationalized the Suez Canal and introduced socialism
Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser?
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought goods and supplies to West Berlin after the East cut off supply routes
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The relaxation of tensions between the US and its communist rivals (China and the Soviet Union)
What was the detente?
Leader who approved the building of the Berlin Wall and ordered nuclear missiles to be sent to Cuba
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
A 1964 congressional resolution allowing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The colonial power that constructed the canal
What was France?
Code name for Berlin Airlift
Operation Vittles
Policy statement by President Harry Truman in 1947 that promised military and economic aid to nations threatened by armed minorities or outside groups
What was the Truman Doctrine?
The final leader of the Soviet Union
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
Principle that US should give support to countries threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection
What was the Marshall Plan?
The US became a major world power
What was a result of the Suez Crisis?
Th name of the operation in which planes dropped candy and toys to children in Berlin during the Berlin Airlift
Operation Little Vittles
What was Soviet satellite?