Post WWII
The US President at the end of WII?
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Two superpowers were against each other during the Cold War.
Who were the Soviet Union and the United States
Who was the President of United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
French war hero, established the Fourth Republic
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
during the Cold War, the US and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war; each nation believed that neither would launch a nuclear attack since both knew that the other side could strike back with nuclear weapons
What is deterrence?
The idea that allowing communist aggressors to take over one country will encourage them to take over other nations.
What is the Domino theory?
The name of the Eastern Europeans alliance during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
A failed overthrow attempt of Fidel Castro by the American CIA and Cuban Exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1955.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy
What is an arms race?
Gave financial assistance to countries needing helping with recovery after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
The name of the Westerns States alliance during the Cold War?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The type of missiles the Soviet Union was sending to Cuba.
What are Nuclear Missiles?
Leader of the communist resistance movement in Yugoslavia.
Who is Tito or Josep Broz?
A plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and to prevent further aggressive moves
What is containment?
This stated that the United States would provide money to countries that were threatened by communist expansion
What is the Truman Doctrine?
United States Senator who had a list of "known Communists" working inside the American government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Cuban Left Wing Revolutionary
Who is Fidel Castro?
This author portrayed life in Siberian forced-labor camps.
Who is Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country.
What is a satellite state?
The name of the British and American efforts to fly supplies into Western Berlin?
What is the Berlin Airlift
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
Nikita Khruschev
President of the United States that was blamed for indecisiveness during the Vietnam war.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The Hungarian leader who declared Hungary a free nation.
Who is Imre Nagy?
A force that worked for greater equality and rights for Women.
What is the Women's Liberation Movement?