Conflicts
These were the two major world super powers who sought to contain the others through the use of proxy wars.
What is the United States and the USSR/Soviet Union
This policy stated that if you attempt to attack us, we will completely wipe you out.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
The Berlin Wall fell in...
What is 1989
This event almost started a global nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was the name of the first Satellite launched by the Soviets
What is Sputnik?
This was a proxy war that was brutal, caused a lot of protest in America, and is an example of containment.
What is the Vietnam War
This policy is named after a game of numbers on ivory tiles that represent countries falling to communism near each other.
What is the Domino Theory?
The Berlin Wall was built in...
This event helped to show what rocket technology the USSR and USA were capable of.
What is the Space Race?
This program aimed to land Americans on the moon and show their technological superiority.
What is the Apollo Program?
This proxy war was started when the north portion of the country invaded the southern portion and initiated an United Nations response force.
Korean War
This policy was initiated by named after a US president who would give money to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in:
1962
This process happened during the Cold War and is defined as the process of granting independence to former colonies.
What is Decolonialization?
This leader reformed the USSR and eventually caused its downfall
This proxy war is the "Vietnam" for the USSR and eventually helps to cause the break up of the Soviet Union.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War.
The European Recovery Program is also know as the _______ which sought to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
What is "The Marshall Plan"
The Soviet Union dissolved in...
What is 1991?
This conference and treaty helped to officially lead to the US withdrawal from Vietnam.
What is the Paris Peace Accords?
This was the leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikitia Kruschev?
This term shows the US policy of "relaxing tensions"
What is Détente?
This soviet policy of openness and transparency initiated by Gorbachev, helped to lead to the break up of the Soviet Union.
What is Glasnost?
The Yalta Conference took place in what year?
What is 1945?
The Berlin Wall was built in order stop these people from going to the Western side of Berlin.
What is East Berliners?
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This space program by the USSR sent the first woman in space in order to show women were equal under communism
What is the Soyuz Program?