Policies & Ideas
U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
Communist leader who took control of Cuba in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Soviet attempt to cut off access to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Military alliance of the U.S. and Western countries.
What is NATO?
The division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The idea that if one country falls to communism, others will follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
U.S. response that flew supplies into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Soviet-led alliance in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
First artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik?
A period of relaxed tensions between the U.S. and USSR in the 1970s.
What is Détente?
Chinese communist leader who started the Cultural Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Failed U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Talks between the U.S. and USSR to limit nuclear weapons.
What is SALT?
Policy of openness in the Soviet Union.
What is Glasnost?
A risky strategy of pushing conflict to the edge of war.
What is Brinkmanship?
Soviet leader who introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
War between North and South Vietnam involving U.S. troops.
What is the Vietnam War?
U.S. program that helped rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Soviet policy of restructuring its economy and government.
What is Perestroika?
U.S. policy promising support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy (JFK)?
Conflict that divided Korea at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
Countries in Eastern Europe controlled by the Soviet Union.
What are Satellite Nations?
This U.S. strategy aimed to slowly withdraw troops from Vietnam while giving more responsibility to South Vietnamese forces.
What is Vietnamization?