1945-1949
What policy led the United States to send billions of dollars to European countries to rebuild after WW2?
Marshall Plan
The discovery of nuclear missile sites on what island nation sparked a 13-day crisis that brought the world to near-nuclear-war in 1961?
Cuba
The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties were meant to curb the spread of what?
Nuclear weapons
What leader of the Soviet Union introduced reforms to try to save communism in the late 1980s?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What Soviet leader (after Stalin) oversaw the beginning of the Space Race and led the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
What is the name for the metaphorical divide between western and eastern Europe during the Cold War?
Iron Curtain
What U.S. policy said that the United States would send military aid to any country threatened by communism?
Truman Doctrine
What was the name of the first artificial satellite ever put into space by humans?
Sputnik
What Space Race milestone did the United States achieve in 1969?
Landing on the Moon
What 1989 event symbolized the end of the Cold War?
The fall of the Berlin Wall
What young American president led the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK (John F. Kennedy)
What is the name for conflicts where the major powers don't fight each other directly, but instead fight each other's allies?
Proxy wars
What was the American response to Joseph Stalin shutting off all access to the capital of Germany in 1948?
Berlin airlift
What 1950’s Cold War conflict ended in a military stalemate and the creation of a DMZ (demilitarized zone)?
Korean War
What policy led the United States to intervene in conflicts around the world to stop the spread of communism?
Containment
What late Soviet policy introduced capitalist concepts and has been compared to Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP)?
Perestroika
What Cuban communist overthrew a capitalist dictatorship and survived numerous assassination attempts?
Fidel Castro
What is the name for the small countries that are influenced by a much larger neighbor?
Satellite states
What Asian country did the United States rebuild into a capitalist democracy after WW2?
Japan
What was the communist response to large numbers of people fleeing for a better life under capitalism in 1961?
Berlin Wall
What war saw the United States fight against a tough opponent using guerilla tactics in the jungle?
Vietnam War
What late Soviet policy, translated as “openness”, allowed limited political freedoms, such as freedom of speech?
Glasnost
What Vietnamese nationalist leader fought against the Japanese, French, and Americans?
Ho Chi Minh
What policy did the Soviet Union undertake after Stalin’s death to remove all monuments to the dictator from the country?
De-Stalinization
What is the name of the defensive alliance formed by the United States and their allies in 1949?
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
What is the name of the military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its allies?
Warsaw Pact
What is the name of the period of easing tension between the USSR and USA that followed after better U.S. relations with China in the early 1970s?
Détente
What 1980s conflict drained the Soviet economy and helped lead to the fall of the Soviet Union?
Soviet-Afghan War/Afghanistan War
Who was the first president of post-communist Russia?
Boris Yeltsin
What United States belief that communism would spread to neighboring countries led to their policy of containment?
Domino Theory