Cold War: Conflicts
The capital of Germany, occupied and divided between Soviet and NATO forces after WWII.
What is Berlin?
The economic aid given by the United States to its European allies after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This Balkan communist nation collapsed in the 1990s, leading to decades of conflict.
What is Yugoslavia?
A term for a widespread societal fear of communism and communist activities.
What is the Red Scare?
Cuba was subjected to this ban on exports/imports to the U.S. as a result of its communist government.
What is an embargo?
The dictator of the USSR who embraced Cuba as an ally, prompting the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
Despite losing WWII and being occupied until 1952, this nation became the world's #2 economy by the 1980s.
What is Japan?
What is China?
Under this 1980s President, the U.S.'s economy and military spending surpassed the USSR's ability to keep up.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
A 1959 invention enabling the long-range use of nuclear weapons.
What is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)?
In 1953, an armistice divided this peninsula between Communist north and Capitalist south.
What is Korea?
Under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer, this nation developed a modern industrial economy.
What is West Germany?
The 1956 Suez Crisis is taken as symbolic of the decline of this former empire's influence over world affairs.
What is Great Britain?
A leader who employed nonviolent tactics to achieve legal protection for African Americans.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
A term for China's rapid industrialization during the late 1950s & early 1960s.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
These three nations were all defeated by Vietnam as it pursued its independence.
What are France, United States, & China?
The leader most recognized for cutting back the British welfare state during the economically troubled 1970s.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
A term for Gorbachev's introduction of foreign corporations to the Soviet market in the 80s & 90s.
What is perestroika?
Under this President, the United States increased its involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s, escalating Cold War tensions.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)?
The spread of this technology in the 1970s & 1980s made it difficult for the Soviet government to prevent images of capitalist lifestyles from spreading in the U.S.S.R.
What is TV?
JFK's failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban government in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Unequal post-war prosperity in the United States led to the development of this equality movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
One of the first Easter European nations to advocate for its freedom and independence in a post-Soviet world from behind the Iron Curtain, including reliance on a Pope from its conservative Catholic population.
What is Poland?
Under this leader, communism was established in Cuba and the world nearly erupted into nuclear war in 1962.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The Soviet economy collapsed thanks to the miscalculated and expensive invasion of this region.
What is Afghanistan?