The Cold War Basics
U.S. leaders believed they needed to stop this ideology from spreading to other countries.
Communism
This major conflict in Asia saw American defeat to communism and turmoil in the U.S
The Vietnam War
Ruthless leader of the Soviet Union who set a presdient of death and control
Joseph Stalin
This wall divided a major German city during the Cold War.
The Berlin Wall
This type of weapon made the Cold War very dangerous because it could destroy entire cities.
Nuclear Weapons
This policy was used to keep communism where it already existed.
Containment
After world War II China fell to Communism under the rule of this Leader
Mao Zedong
President of the United States who helped end the Cold War in the late 1980s
Ronald Reagan
The two alliances created by the United States & Soviet Union respectively
NATO & Warsaw Pact
This event involved the Soviet Union placing nuclear missiles close to the United States in Cuba
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This constitutes the very first conflict between the Soviet Union and America in the late 1940s
The Berlin Airlift
This conflict is often thought of as a forgotten war in the early 1950s
The Korean War
TheNorth Korean Leader who attempted to invade the south and unify the Korean peninsula
This term describes the divide between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union focused on space technology and exploration.
The Space Race
The policy that the U.S would help any country in danger of communism
The Truman Doctrine
The movement in China where Mao had the peasants to overthrow older generations and devote their loyalty to Communism
The cultural Revolution
This Soviet leader started reforms to change the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This reform tried to change and improve the Soviet economy.
Perestroika
This Soviet satellite shocked the United States and started the Space Race.
Sputnik
This fear said that if one country became communist, others would follow.
A series of writings by Mao Zedong that all youth were forced to read in the Red Guard
The Little Red Book
Famous leader of the North Vietnamese Communist
Ho Chi Minh
This reform allowed more openness and less censorship.
Glasnost
The first European Country to free itself from Communism
Poland