Cold War 1
Leader of the Soviet Union following WWII.
Stalin
President after FDR
Truman
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S.?
The imaginary line that divided Western and Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain
This is the title given to any war where no direct fighting occurs between the two countries.
Cold War
The idea of keeping communism from spreading.
Containment
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Term for the scientific competition that happened between the US and USSR in the 1950's and 1960's.
Space Race
This was built in the German capital city to divide communists and non-communist.
Berlin Wall
This war involved major events such as the Tet offensive, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and a divided country along the 17th parallel
The Vietnam War
Name the city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
Who was the U.S. General in the Korean War?
MacArthur
Years for the start and end of the Cold War?
What is approximately 1945 - 1991?
What was the US program called that created the first nuclear weapons?
Manhattan Project
Who was the President when the United States was closest to Nuclear War?
John F. Kennedy
This describes the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war
What is the Arms Race?
This multinational organization was created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe.
What is NATO?
This was a period of anti-communist hysteria in the late 1940s and 1950s
The Red Scare
This is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It also formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.
The 38th Parallel
This war was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950.
What is the Korean War?
European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.
The Marshall Plan
This crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations
Warsaw Pact
What is McCarthyism?
This theory was based on the idea that if any of the Southeast Asian countries fell to communism then they all would
Domino theory
Korean War years
1950-1953
Where was the U2 spy plane shot down?
Soviet Union
What year did the Berlin wall come down?
1989
Who was president when the Soviet Union Collapsed in the late 1980's
Ronald Reagan
Two of the five satellite nations of the Soviet Union in 1945.
What are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
This was the name for the foreign policy technique used by Kennedy. Created to provide the US with wide variety of Military Defense options
What is Flexible Response
This was created after communism threatened Greece and Turkey for access to the straits connecting the Black Sea.
Truman Doctrine
On this date, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
1991
What was name of the operation in which The US government attempted to overthrow the communist government in Cuba. Also mention the gov. organization that attempted this.
Bay of Pigs / CIA