Vocabulary
a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved
What is a Proxy War?
taking a dispute to the edge of conflict in order to force the opposition to back down
What is Brinksmanship?
This was the decades long conflict between the USA and USSR for economic, political and military dominance
What is the Cold War?
The Soviets built a wall in this German city to keep people from escaping to the capitalist west
What is Berlin?
The first man made satellite launched into space
What is Sputnik I?
A policy outlined by President Truman that called for containing the spread of Communism beyond its 1947 borders
What is the policy of Containment?
a competition to acquire more and ever deadlier weapons
What is an arms race?
The US created this agency in 1958 to oversee space exploration
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)?
Where the Korean conflict ended in an armistice
What is the 38th parallel?
The policy that the USA would help countries both economically as well as militarily resist communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What is a Stalemate?
This nuclear bomb is a million times more powerful than the A-bomb that was dropped on Japan
What is the Hydrogen Bomb?
This NASA program was tasked with manning a spacecraft into orbit and studying the effects of space on the human body.
What is the Mercury program?
North Korean forces pushed the South Koreans to the far Southeastern corner to this port city?
What is Pusan?
The theory that if one nation fell to communism other neighboring countries would fall as well
What is the Domino Theory?
One sided information meant to encourage people to do or not do something
What is Propaganda?
What is Korea?
Stalin wanted to create this type of 'zone' in Eastern Europe to protect the USSR from another invasion
What is a "buffer zone"?
On July 21, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk here
What is on the Moon?
The race to place the first man on the moon
What is the Space Race?
A speech given by Winston Churchill in March of 1946 which warned about the growing communist expansion
What is the Iron Curtain?
US spy planes found evidence of Soviet missiles being placed in Cuba just 90 miles off American soil sparking this conflict
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Popular Communist leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This is the border between China and North Korea
What is the Yulan River?
the belief that a nuclear war would have no winner. Instead, it would completely destroy both sides.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)