Cold War 1
Who were Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Three world leaders at the Yalta Conference in Feb 1945.
What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba
Fidel Castro
What is the 38th parallel?
Split North and South Korea.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro in 1961.
Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.
Iron Curtain
Foreign Policy which states that the U.S. must prevent communism from spreading.
What is containment?
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
Event that saw the USand other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets set a blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
List two tensions in the Cold War
Different ideologies, Control of other countries (expansion and containment), Arms Race
JFKs actions to stop missiles getting to Cuba
Naval blockade or quarantine
The Korean War took place during these years.
What is 1950-1953?
The Cuban Missile Crisis almost led to what?
Nuclear war
Where did Japan attack the USA?
USSR agreed to remove missiles at Cuba on the basis that the US did what?
remove missiles from Turkey
What is the Marshall plan?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Domino Theory?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
Demilitarized Zone
Area with no military forces, such as the 38th parallel dividing North and South Korea Second Red Scare Widespread fear of communism during the 1950s
A conflict fought by one or more major powers that do not themselves become directly involved
Proxy War
What is the Arms Race?
What is the Arms Race?
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
Name 3 flashpoints in the Cold War
Vietnam War, Korean War, The Berlin Blockade, The arms and space race and The Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Neil Armstrong?
First man to step foot on the moon.
First successful satellite in space.
What is Sputnik I?
Major increase in the number of children born in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Baby Boom
Who was the leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
This trail allowed the Viet Cong to get into South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It was not legal as they went through neutral Laos and Cambodia.
What is the Ho Chi Mihn Trail?
What country near the USSR did USA have nuclear missiles located
Turkey
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
The Vietnam War took place during these years.
Bonus - What years was the United States involved?
What is 1955-1975?
Bonus: What is 1965-1973?
U.S. policy of helping any nation to defend itself from the spread of communism (containment of communism
Truman Doctrine
The USA and the Soviet Union were involved in a conflict where the Soviets established a missile base in Cuba that led to a 13 day confrontation
Cuban Missile Crisis