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?
This group fled to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War.
Who were the Nationalists?
In the early 1950s, the period of extreme fear of communism is a period typically known as...
What is "the red scare"?
This term is the policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information in the Soviet Union.
What is glasnost?
Popular leader of North Vietnam and also the name of the trail that stretched through out Indochina.
Who is Ho Chi Mihn?
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?
Treaty created to limit the amount of Nuclear Warheads a country can have.
What is the SALT treaty
This was the event in which college students protested, demanding a democracy in China.
What is Tiananmen Square?
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
Who was 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?
The House Un-American Activities Committee was charged with this duty.
What is investigating communism in the film industry?
What was the name of Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union?
'Perestroika'