Cold War Origins
These are the opposing ideologies of the Cold War.
What are Capitalism and Communism?
The Big Three
Who were Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt?
Significant events of the Cold War
The policies Gorbachev introduced.
What were Perestroika and Glasnost?
An idea that two countries with nuclear weapons could destroy the world
What is mutually assured destruction?
These countries occupied Berlin during the Cold War.
Who are the US, UK, France, and USSR?
Two leaders of the USSR.
Who were Stalin, Melenkov, Krushchev, Breznev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev?
The Solidarity movement.
What was the social movement against the authoritarian government in Poland?
NATO stands for this phrase
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation?
The idea that one state turning communist will lead to other states following
What is the domino theory?
This term, popularised by Churchill, described the division between East and West Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Soviet leader and US President in power during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who were J. F. Kennedy and Khrushchev?
The Soviet blocking of all rail, road, and canal access to the Allied sectors of Berlin
What was the Berlin Blockade?
A U.S foreign policy that pledged American economic and military aid to nations threatened by communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine
A period of easing tension
What is detente?
Two key reasons the US and USSR emerged as rivals after WWII
Differences in ideologies, arms race, disagreements over Germany, competing as the world's two superpowers.
The President that pursued Detente.
Who is Nixon?
The date the Berlin Wall 'fell'.
What was November 9, 1989?
A U.S. program of economic aid to Western Europe after World War II
What is the Marshall Plan?
What is the Malta Summit?
The Yalta press conference discussed this
What is the division of Germany?
This US senator led a controversial anti-communist campaign in the early 1950s, accusing many Americans of being communist spies.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The Soviet invasion of this country in 1979 led to a decade-long war and a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics.
What is Afghanistan?
Secret accords signed without Gorbachev's knowledge to dissolve the USSR
What are the Belovezha Accords?
This 1985 agreement between Reagan and Gorbachev began to significantly reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles.
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty)?