Cold War Beginning
Term coined by Winston Churchill that explained the division in Europe after WWII with communism in the east and democracy in the west.
the Iron Curtain
The President of the US after World War II who used a policy of Containment to fight the Cold War.
Harry Truman
What were the two countries created as a result of the Korean War?
North Korea and South Korea
This crisis marked the closest point that the world had ever come to global nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leader of the USSR when the Cold War started.
Joseph Stalin
This US foreign policy after World War II had the goal of stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
The President of the US who was in power during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F Kennedy
Conflict in which the US fought against a Soviet Union and China backed north and resulted in a stalemate in which half of the country became communist and half became democratic.
Korean War
A Soviet attempt to prevent skilled workers, professionals, and intellectuals from leaving East Berlin.
Berlin Wall put up
Name the US and Soviet military alliances that divided Europe into and Eastern and Western halves.
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Event in which the United States and Great Britain were forced to supply West Berlin with food and other vital supplies only by air.
Berlin Blockade
This US president gave the famous "Tear Down this Wall" speech.
Ronald Reagan
Conflict in which the US fought against a Soviet Union and China backed north and resulted in defeat for the US and the south.
Vietnam War
The last leader of the USSR who's policies led to the collapse of the USSR.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This created fear in the US that the Soviets had passed them in technology and could possibly reign down nuclear weapons from outer space.
the launching of the Sputnik
This US policy gave economic and military aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey to help them fight off communism.
Truman Doctrine
This US president projected that the US would put a man on the moon before the '70s.
John F Kennedy
Name of the general who led the US forces in the Korean War until he was fired and sent home.
General Douglas MacArthur
Freedoms of expression and of information were significantly expanded under this policy enacted by Gorbachev.
Glasnost “openness”
This US government funded program was enacted in order to be the first country to put a man on the moon.
Apollo Program
In this policy, the US gave money to European countries to help their economies recover after WWII.
the Marshall Plan
The President of the US who increased involvement in the Vietnam war and sent troops in on the ground to fight.
Lyndon B Johnson
This communist leader in China won the Chinese Civil War and established the People’s Republic of China.
Mao Zedong
Effort by Communist hard-liners to restore the Communist Party’s control of the Soviet Union by holding President Mikhail Gorbachev captive from August 19 to August 21, 1991.
Soviet coup d’état
What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989