Cold War 1
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
These two countries were created as a result of a division along the 38th parallel in 1945.
What are North Korea and South Korea?
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?
Where did Japan attack the USA?
What is Pearl Harbor?
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
What is a Naval blockade or quarantine?
This event provided justification for the United States to send ground troops to Vietnam, after the U.S. navy alleged that two destroyers had been attacked by North Vietnamese ships.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Named after a Wisconsin senator, this phenomenon resulted in the blacklisting of many people for alleged ties to communism, often with little to no evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
This was a metaphorical wall between Western and Eastern Europe, a term first used by Winston Churchill.
What is the Iron Curtain?
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
What is a Demilitarized Zone?
A conflict fought by one or more major powers that do not themselves become directly involved
What is a 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.
Who are 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.
What is the Baby Boom?
Soldiers were dropping chocolates to children.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Popular leader of North Vietnam and also the name of the trail that stretched through out Indochina.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Weaker nations that are ruled by another, more powerful nation.
What are Satellite Nations?
The name of the mission that landed on the moon.
What is the Apollo 11?
This Soviet leader negotiated with JFK to remove missiles from Cuba as part of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
U.S. policy of helping any nation to defend itself from the spread of communism (containment of communism
What is the 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
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?