Cold War Figures
President of the United States during the Korean War.
Who is Harry S. Truman
Tactic that prevents supplies from coming into or out of a seaport?
What is a blockade
War during which the Soviet Union gained control of Eastern Europe
What is World War II
Rebel leader who overthrew the government of Cuba and set up a communist government.
Who is Fidel Castro
Communist nation off the coast of Florida
What is Cuba
Russian premier World War II and early Cold War period.
Who is Joseph Stalin
System of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by the state.
What is communism
Structure built to separate East and West Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall
President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy
City that was about three-fourths "free" although it is inside the communist section of Germany
What is Berlin
General during World War II and president after Harry S. Truman.
Who is Dwight T. Eisenhower
Imaginary barrier that prevents the free exchange of ideas and people between communist and free nations in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain
Organization created to keep peace in the world
What is the United Nations
Man who mentioned the "iron curtain" that separated the free and communist sections of Europe
Who was Winston Churchill
Communist section of Germany
What is East Germany
Man who became the commander of United Nations forces in Korea and was fired by Truman because he wanted to use atomic weapons on China.
Who is Douglas MacArthur
Idea that communism must be kept within its existing boundaries and not allowed to spread.
What is the policy of containment
Operation in which the Allied nations flew supplies to Berlin for almost a year.
What is the Berlin Airlift
Man who ordered the land routes to Berlin closed?
Who is Joseph Stalin
The Soviet answer to NATO, purpose was to defend Soviet block countries
What are the Warsaw Pact countries
Communist Leader of China
Who was Mao Zedong
Countries in eastern Europe that have communist governments and are partly controlled by the Soviet Union.
What are satellite countries
Defense organization formed by nine western European nations plus plus Iceland, Canada, and the United States to stop the spread of communism.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Premier of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who was Nikita Khrushchev
Two nations that keep the Soviets from controlling the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea
What are Turkey and Greece