Important Groups and People
Communist country that opposed the US.
Who is the Soviet Union?
The time period when fighting was done by using money and words instead of guns and soldiers.
What is the Cold War?
The U.S. and the Soviet Union both threatened to use these nuclear weapons.
What is an Atomic Bomb?
The two sides to the cold war (who vs who?)
Who are the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
Group of countries formed near the end of WWII as a body of nations to prevent future global wars
Who is the United Nations?
The Cold War took place after this major world war.
What is WW2?
US policy to stop Communism from spreading
What is containment?
Did the Soviet Union side with the east or the west?
What is the the east?
The dictator of the Soviet Union who believed that he should control a majority of Europe after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The crisis that occurred in this city, the capital of Germany, involved the city being split in half by a wall.
What is Berlin?
The government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources (think Soviet Union!)
What is communism?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is a cease-fire?
US president at the start of the cold war
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Khrushchev (Soviet Leader) placed missiles in this country after being behind in the arms race, creating a crisis.
What is Cuba?
a symbol that represented the divide between communist Soviet Union and Capitalist Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
Who "won" the cold war?
Who is neither side?
The U.S. was furious that Joseph Stalin had been an ally of this German Leader in WW2.
Who is Hitler?
A war fought in this country between the north and south; After the war, this country was split into two separate countries
What is Korea?
President that feared a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and ordered a blockade around Cuba. He was assassinated after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The war that was not supported by many Americans. Many Americans started demonstrations and protests for the soldiers to be brought back home.
What is the Vietnam War?