The 1940s
British leader Winston Churchill said this had fallen over Europe as a symbolic divide between the Western European democracies and the Eastern European communist countries.
What is the Korean War?
The U.S. backed invasion of Cuba led by the CIA where Cuban exiles tried to assassinate Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The president who removed the last U.S. troops from Vietnam.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The U.S. policy during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
President of the U.S. during the 1950s who built up the American nuclear arsenal.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The wall built between East and West Berlin to divide the city.
The U.S. policy of improving relations with the Soviet Union.
What is detente?
The U.S. policy of giving money and weapons to countries that are resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The military alliance between the Soviet Union and the Eastern European communist counries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The tense standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union when the U.S. found out the Soviets were building missile launch sites in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President Nixon became the first president to ever visit this major communist power.
When the western allies flew in supplies to Berlin daily because the Soviets blocked the roads in and out of the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to build superior weapons systems.
What is the arms race?
The idea that if one country fell to communism, so would the surrounding countries.
What is the domino theory?
The policy of gradually removing U.S. troops from Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
The military alliance between the U.S. and the democratic Western European countries.
What is NATO?
What is the Red Scare?
When Congress gave the president the power to send as many troops to Vietnam as he wanted.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This country fell to communism after the last U.S. troops were removed.
What is Vietnam?