Ideologies and Superpower Tensions
This economic and political ideology supports private ownership, democracy and individual freedoms.
What is capitalism?
This 1947 policy promised American support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
These three Western powers controlled West Berlin after World War II.
What was the US, Britain and France?
This Soviet leader placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
This was the year of the Moon landing.
What is 1969?
This leader of the USSR after World War II wanted a buffer zone in Eastern Europe.
Who was Stalin?
This was the Soviet alternative to the Marshall Plan.
What was the Molotov Plan?
This was the year the Berlin Wall was built.
What was 1961?
This Cuban leader allowed Soviet missiles to be placed in Cuba.
Who was Fidel Castro?
This was the first artificial satellite launched by the USSR in 1957.
What was Sputnik?
This phrase was used by Winston Churchill to describe the division between Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Prague was the capital of this Eastern European country.
What was Czechoslovakia?
This new currency introduced into West Germany helped trigger the Berlin Blockade.
What was the Deutschmark?
This group of Kennedy’s advisers met secretly to discuss how to respond to the crisis.
What is ExComm?
This American space program successfully landed humans on the Moon in 1969.
What was Apollo 11?
This policy aimed to stop communism from spreading beyond where it already existed.
What was the containment policy?
This term refers to the Soviet-controlled area of influence in Eastern Europe.
What is the Soviet sphere of influence?
During the Berlin Airlift, the Western Allies delivered more than this many millions of tons of supplies to West Berlin.
What is 2.3 million tons?
This failed 1961 invasion increased Castro’s fear of the United States.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This was the first country to successfully test a hydrogen bomb.
What is the United States?
What is the Ukraine?
This Eastern European country later became the site of an anti-Soviet uprising in 1956.
What is Hungary?
This was the most famous crossing point between East and West Berlin.
What was checkpoint Charlie?
These American missiles in Turkey were secretly part of the final agreement to end the crisis.
What were Jupiter Missiles?
This phrase describes the idea that both superpowers had enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?