Cold War Beginnings
This German city was divided during the Cold War.
What is Berlin?
This structure was built to keep East Germans from escaping to freedom.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This country developed the first hydrogen bomb.
This event led to rapid population growth in the United States after World War II.
What is the Baby Boom?
This communist country was established on the Korean peninsula after World War II.
What is North Korea?
The United States supplied billions of dollars in recovery aid to Europe with this policy.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Many East Germans tried to get to this German city which represented freedom.
What is West Berlin?
The initials MAD stand for this.
What is mutually assured destruction?
Some Americans prepared for a potential nuclear war by constructing these.
What are fallout shelters?
The two Koreas were divided at this line of latitude.
What is the 38th parallel?
The Soviet occupation in Germany was turned into this new country.
This country revolted (unsuccessfully) against Soviet control in 1956.
What is Hungary?
A hydrogen bomb's explosive power comes from this scientific process.
What is fusion?
Martin Luther King Jr. led a massive march on this US city in 1963.
What is Washington D.C.?
This country intervened in the Korean War to save North Korea in 1950.
What is China?
This was the Western Allies' plan to keep West Berlin supplied during its isolation by Soviet forces.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
This city in Czechoslovakia was the focal point of reform and protests in 1968.
What is Prague?
The initials ICBM stands for this.
What is intercontinental ballistic missile?
This man succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the USSR.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
General Douglas MacArthur was fired for insubordination by this man.
Who is President Harry Truman?
The Truman Doctrine began as a means of strengthening these TWO countries.
What are Greece and Turkey?
The Berlin Wall was built in this year.
What is 1961?
The initials MIRV stands for this.
What is multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle?
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This narrow area separates the two Koreas today.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?