Vocabulary
To close off
What is blockade?
The first country to land on the moon
Who is the United States?
The weapon used to end World War II
What is the atomic bomb?
A German city divided into West and East during the Cold War
What is Berlin?
A group of people who gather to secretly gain information
What are spies?
To discourage attack by threatening nuclear war
What is deterrence?
The first country to launch a satellite into space
Who is the Soviet Union?
The second country to develop the nuclear weapon
Built to stop East Germans from escaping Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
What world event in 1991 ended the Cold War?
What is the fall of the Soviet Union?
atomic reactions to release enormous power and cause mass destruction
What are nuclear weapons?
The agency created to compete in the Space Race
What is NASA?
The event that was the closest the US and USSR came to nuclear war
The term used to describe the divide between East Europe and West Europe
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
US strategy stopping the spread of communism
What is containment?
System of carrying supplies by airplane
What is airlift?
The year the US landed on the moon
What is 1969?
The drill US students practiced in school in preparation for a nuclear attack
What is duck and cover drills?
Event when the US and allies flew supplies into West Berlin during the Soviet Blockade
What is the Berlin airlift?
Where the Soviet Union made satellite nations
What is East Europe?
nations dependents upon a stronger power
What are satellites?
The purpose of the space race
What is to prove technological and military power?
The reason the Cold War was so dangerous
What is nuclear weapons?
The year the Berlin Wall fell
What is 1989?
Purpose of the Marshall Plan
What is rebuild Europe?