This operation kept West Berlin supplied during the blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A theory claiming if one nation fell to communism, others would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This year saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.
What is 1989?
This doctrine pledged U.S. aid to nations resisting communism in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This phrase described the division between East and West Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This conference in 1945 set the stage for post-war division of Germany and Berlin.
What is the Yalta conference?
A style of combat used by the Viet Cong.
What is guerilla warfare?
This costly war in the 1980s drained Soviet resources.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?
This economic program rebuilt Europe and contained communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1957 satellite launched by the USSR started the space race.
What is Sputnik?
The month and year of the Berlin Wall coming down.
This 1968 offensive shocked Americans and turned opinion against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This failed 1961 invasion aimed to overthrow Castro in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
A French term denoting a 1970s policy aimed to ease tensions between superpowers.
What is détente?
This East German secret police, notorious for its surveillance and control.
What is the Stasi?
This 1973 agreement ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Paris Peace Accords?
A policy introduced in the 1980s aimed to increase openness and transparency in Soviet society.
What is glasnost?
This term describes the U.S. strategy to stop communism spreading.
What is containment?
This Eastern European country was the first to break away from Soviet control in 1989.
What is Poland?
East German leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Walter Ulbricht?
This term described Nixon’s plan to shift fighting to South Vietnamese troops.
What is Vietnamization?
This month and year marked the official dissolution of the USSR.
What is December 1991?
This 1983 missile defense proposal was nicknamed “Star Wars.”
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?
This person coined the term 'Cold War' and popularised.
Who is George Orwell?