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This popular comic-book hero was often shown fighting communists during the early Cold War.
captain america
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
Winston Churchill
A Southeast Asian country is split between north and south.
Vietnam
This wall was built to keep people from leaving communist East Germany.
Berlin Wall
The U.S. and USSR competed for medals during this international sports event.
the olympics
The novel by William Golding was often read during the Cold War as a warning about human nature and the breakdown of order, written about the experience of juveniles trapped on an island.
Lord of the flies
“The world has known only a few generations of peace since the beginning of recorded history. There has never been a time when peace was not threatened.”
Dwight Eisenhower
The name of the race between the US and the Soviet Union to build stronger and more weapons
Arms Race
The U.S. and Soviet Union where in a race to be the best in this new area beyond Earth
space
This country launched the first human into space.
soviet union
This novel by George Orwell became widely used in U.S. classrooms during the Cold War as a warning against totalitarian governments.
1984
“Glasnost awakened people from their social slumber, helped them overcome indifference and passivity and become aware of the stake…”
Ronald Reagan
This wall fell in 1989, marking the war's end.
Berlin Wall
students in classrooms practiced drills to prepare for this threat
nuclear attack
The U.S. competed to land astronauts on this place in 1969.
the moon
This newspaper became famous for exposing government secrets during the Cold War, including the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The New York times
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F Kennedy
This alliance was formed in 1949 between Western Europe and the US.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
This event in 1989 symbolized the end of Cold War divisions in Europe.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This Soviet satellite launched in 1957 shocked Americans.
sputnik
televised U.S. Senate investigation, led by Joseph McCarthy, was broadcast nationwide and helped turn public opinion against him
Army-McCarthy hearings
“The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin
This speech was spoken by Winston Churchill, describing the division between Soviet controlled Eastern Europe and the West.
The Iron Curtain
This was the fear that communists were secretly living and working in the United States.
Countries that tried not to side with either the U.S. or USSR formed this movement.
Non-Aligned Movement