When did that happen?
1947-1991
When was the Cold War?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization- non-communist military alliance
What is NATO?
The economic recovery plan for western Europe after World War 2
What is the Marshall Plan?
US went to war to prevent south Vietnam from falling to Communism (1962)
What is the Vietnam War?
Monetart Aid pledged to assist the free people of Turkey and Greece against Communist regimes
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Built in 1961 and torn down in 1989
What is the Berlin Wall?
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the US and the USSR
What is SALT?
A Military alliance for the defense of communist states in Eastern Europe
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The 17th Parallel
What is the dividing Line Between North and South Vietnam?
Military Alliance for the defense of Communist states in Eastern Europe
What is the Warsaw Pact?
1961 failed US invasion of Cuba
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) - An anti missle defense system
What is SDI?
Idea that if one nation falls to communism then another will fall and so on
What is the Domino Theory?
38th Parallel
What is the Dividing Line between North and South Korea?
Theory that the USSR would back down because of American nuclear superiorirty
What is Brinkmanship?
A conflict between a communist country and non communist country from 1950 to 1953?
What is the Korean War?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What is MAD?
1962 when the US and USST came to the brink of nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missle Crisis?
Term coined by Winston Churchill about an imaginary line that separated capitalist/ democratic countries from the soviets/ communism
What is the Iron Curtain?
Hysteria in the US over the threat of Communist infiltration
What is the Red Scare?
Launched in 1957 by the USSR
What is Sputnik?
House Un-American Activities Committee
What is HUAC?
A massive government spending by the US and the USSR to prouce and have the most weapons
What is the Arms Race?
The 3 year conflict that has not technically ended but maintains a cease fire.
What is the Korean War?
A relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR
What is Detente?