Cold War Basics
A long-term struggle between two countries' ideologies where no actual fighting occurs between the main rivals
What is the Cold War
A proxy war fought between a communist North and a non-communist South in the early 1950s.
What is the Korean War
The intense competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to explore outer space.
What is the Space Race
A physical barrier that divided a communist East from a non-communist West from 1961 to 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall
A system of government where the state owns all businesses and land, and there is no individual freedom.
What is Communism
A word meaning a set of beliefs, such as the different ways the U.S. and Soviet Union thought a country should be ruled
What is an ideology?
A conflict where the U.S. sent soldiers to Southeast Asia to prevent a communist takeover of the nation.
What is the Vietnam War
An organization (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) formed to protect members from Soviet attacks.
What is Nato
The deliberate effort to spread specific opinions and beliefs to influence the public.
What is propaganda
A term for the people or countries who are the first to start a war.
What are aggressors
A program for reconstruction that provided food, funds, and materials to help countries rebuild after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan
A war involving the U.S. and its allies against Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait.
What is the Persian Gulf War
A tense "race" to build more and better weapons than your enemy
What is the arms race.
A period of intense panic and fear regarding the spread of communism within the United States.
What is the Red Scare
An organization where countries promise to work together to find peaceful solutions to international problems.
What is the United Nations
An event where airplanes dropped food and fuel into a blockaded city to bypass Soviet restrictions.
What is the Berlin Airlift
A style of fighting involving random, surprise attacks that can come from any direction at any time.
What is guerrilla warfare
An agreement between the U.S. and Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear weapons they owned.
What is arms control
The 13-day period of extreme tension in 1962 over the presence of nuclear weapons in the Caribbean
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
This international organization was founded on a "promise to work together" to ensure that aggressors could be stopped through peaceful solutions.
What is the UN
While the Marshall Plan gave money, this specific event in 1948 proved the U.S. would physically fly in supplies to stop a city from starving.
What is the Berin Airlift
This term describes the Korean War, because the U.S. and USSR didn't fight each other directly, but supported opposite sides.
What is a Proxy War.
These specific agreements were the result of Arms Control talks, aimed at limiting the number of nuclear weapons each side had.
What are treaties
This specific 1962 event is often considered the closest the world ever came to a full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers.
What is the Cuban Missle Crisis
This is the fundamental reason the Cold War started: the fact that the U.S. and USSR had a completely different Ideology.
What are the different beliefs about how to rule?