Cold War 1
Three world leaders at the Yalta Conference in Feb 1945.
Who were Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba
Fidel Castro
Split North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.
What is the Berlin Wall?
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?
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
JFKs actions to stop missiles getting to Cuba
Naval blockade or quarantine
Leader of South Korea during the Korean War
Syngman Rhee
Name of telegrams in Cold War
Long and Novikov Telegram
Where did Japan attack the USA?
Multinational organization created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe.
What is NATO?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall plan?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
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
Demilitarized Zone
A conflict fought by one or more major powers that do not themselves become directly involved
Proxy War
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
Name 2 major presidents during the Cold War.
Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon?
First man to step foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
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
Soldiers were dropping chocolates to children.
The Berlin Airlift?
Popular leader of North Vietnam and also the name of the trail that stretched through out Indochina.
Who is Ho Chi Mihn?
Weaker nations that are ruled by another, more powerful nation.
Satellite Nations
The name of the mission that landed on the moon.
What is the Apollo 11?
Leader of the North Korean army during the Korean War
Who is Kim ll Sung?
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