The Americas
NATO was created in this year
What is 1949?
Which country was not part of the Warsaw Pact?
Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
What is Yugoslavia?
This man led the Sandinistas against the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza who was supported by the U.S.
Who is Daniel Ortega?
This American president focused American foreign policy on a stated purpose: to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Clue: The __________ Doctrine
Who is Truman?
This conference held at a Soviet resort on the Black Sea—to plan the postwar world-- was, for many historians, the beginning of the Cold War
What is the Yalta Conference?
Cuban leader from (1926-2016) who established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere
Who is Fidel Castro
which nation was not part of the Warsaw Pact?
Finland,Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania
What is Finland?
A geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment?
A Soviet cipher clerk who defected to Canada on September 5, 1945
Who is Igor Gouzenko?
Define containment
What is keeping communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions. i.e: halting the spread of communism?
Officially beginning on October 15, 1962—the day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing U-2 spy plane data discovered that the Soviets were building medium-range missile sites on an island in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
On March 5th 1946, Winston Churchill made a speech at Fulton, Missouri, USA... it was the first time this phrase was uttered.
During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union were motivated by fears that a conventional war between the two superpowers would result in nuclear holocaust, rendering the use of ideological satellites a safer way of exercising hostilities. These types of war resulted...
What are proxy wars?
His period in office as the leader of the U.S.S.R. included the building of the Berlin Wall and the crisis in 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Define the Marshall Plan
What is the European Recovery Program that gave European nations American aid to rebuild their economies in the absence of Soviet influence.
Which country is not part of NATO?
Iceland, Albania and England?
What is Albania?
The launch of this, greatly accentuated the perception in the United States of a threat from the Soviet Union, a perception that had persisted since the Cold War began after World War II.
What is Sputnik?
In this civil war the United States sent the Nationalists (Whites) aid in hopes that they would oust the communist Reds led by Mao.
What is the Chinese Civil War?
America did not support the mission of the French, British and Israelis that aimed to cease control of the major trade passage that resided in his country... he was the president of the nation that was attacked in 1956.
Who is President Gamal Abdel Nasser?
Name the 12 countries that first made up NATO in 1949
What is the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg , and Iceland?
An attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin,
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Soviet Leader when the Warsaw Pact was signed?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The idea that the fall of one country (to communism) would lead to the fall of its neighbors...
What is the Domino Theory?
Cuba was ruled by this man prior to the revolution in this country that began in January 1959.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
A protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of the North and its allies in the South. The war was also part of a larger regional conflict and a manifestation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.(1954–75)
What is the Vietnam War?