Cuba
Communist Leader of Cuba
Fidel Castro
Country created in 1948 as a place for Jews
What is Israel
This Country with the help of the United States performed an "Economic Miracle" and for a brief time became the world's second largest economy.
Japan
British prime minister at the end of WWII
Winston Churchill
A state that while officially independent strictly follows the lead of a stronger country.
Satellite state
CIA operation to assassinate the leader of Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Soviets refused to leave this country following WWII instead tried to create two separatist communist states out of it.
Iran
This country invaded their southern neighbor before being beaten back by the US. Its leader follows the political philosophy of Juche
What is North Korea, or the people's republic of Korea
This country was split in two following WWII
Germany
US foreign policy doctrine to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment
These were being held in Cuba following the failed assassination of the leader
What are Soviet Missiles
This country was recognized by the US in 1931 but the US took a more focused interest in it when oil was discovered in 1941
What is Saudi Arabia
Communist leader of China following the civil war
Mao Zedong
This region of Europe was almost completely communist following WWII
Eastern Europe
The idea that if either the US or USSR used nuclear weapons it would mean guaranteed annihilation for both countries
What is Mutually Assured Destruction.
US department of defense system for signaling preparedness for Nuclear war
The DEFCON system
This country is where the Suez Canal is located
Egypt
This country became a military quagmire for the US in the late 60s and early 70s
Vietnam
This country in the southern Balkans experienced a civil war that the US and USSR got involved in almost immediately after WWII
Greece
The process of two countries trying to create more numerous and stronger nuclear weapons than the other.
The Nuclear Arms race.
US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy
The invasion of this country in 1979 is usually called "The Soviet Vietnam"
Afghanistan
Communist leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
The USSR wanted access to the straights of this country in order to establish Warm water ports in the Atlantic.
Turkey
The metaphor Winston Churchill made to describe the political separation between Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
Iron Curtain