Cuba
Confrontation between the US and USSR after the discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
What is a proxy war?
way of obtaining information and intelligence about the enemies practiced by the UK, USA and USSR during the Cold War
What is espionage?
13 billion dollars of American aid was used to rebuild Europe after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
Provides disincentives and safeguards against national or sub-national access to nuclear materials and facilities
What is nuclear non-proliferation?
A strategy of putting in place incentives for other nations not to engage in certain kinds of military actions.
What is mutually assured destruction or deterrence?
This war was fought during the Cold War, with the USA and Russia on opposite sides. Russia supported the North and the USA supported and fought alongside the south.
What is the Vietnam War?
Arrested on conspiracy to commit espionage in 1950
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
American movement from the 1950s, opposed to communism
What is mcCarthyism?
This event ended the Cold War
What is the fall of the Soviet Union?
A United States spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Union
What is the U-2 incident?
Justification for the US to go into Vietnam, created by Harry S. Truman
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The American intelligence agency
What is the CIA?
Taking a dispute to the edge of conflict to force an enemy to back down
What is brinkmanship?
The two countries that Germany was divided into after WWII?
What are West Germany and East Germany?
Combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America.
What is NORAD?
This was was known as the "forgotten war." It went on for three years until another war overshadowed it.
What is the Korean War?
Series of investigations and hearings aimed at exposing communist infiltration into American society
What is McCarthyism?
This treaties purpose was to keep the peace in Europe
What is the Helsinki Accord?
The United States and western European nations of NATO vs. The Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe of the Warsaw Pact.
What are the alliances of the Cold War?
Came to power in Cuba after a revolt to overthrow Fulgencio Batista
Who is Fidel Castro?
This war was to the USSR what the Vietnam war was to the USA
What is the Soviet-Afghan war?
The Soviet intelligence agency
What is the KGB?
The operation that flew in much needed supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A period of political liberalization and mass protest in Czechoslovakia, which was a communist state after WWII.
What was the Prague Spring?