Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communists where the nation was divided at the 38th parallel?
What is the Korean War?
A term defined as going to the "brink," or edge of war.
What is Brinkmanship?
What Winston Churchill called the political boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas?
What is the Iron Curtain?
Who is the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?
Who are the Red Guards?
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was a program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 Eastern European countries after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The alliance between Eastern Bloc nations.
What is the Warsaw pact?
The leader of the Hungarian Revolution who was later executed in 1956.
Who is Imre Nagy?
It is the organization of Western European Nations that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Why did the alliance between the USSR and the United States break down?
What is "Stalin failed to fulfill his promise of free elections?"
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947. It also established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The group of Soviet states and nations in Eastern Europe.
What is the Eastern Bloc?
The communist leader who won China's civil war and established the People's Republic of China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
A French word that means "loosening." It was a policy created to reduce and ease Cold War tensions.
What is Detente?
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The agency or Committee for State Security, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union.
What is the KGB?
What was the main goal for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan?
To re-establish a Communist regime in Afghanistan.
The theory that if one nation fell to communism, other nations would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
These were the two key leaders/ideological opponents in the Cold War.
Who are the United States and the USSR?
Leader of the Iranian Revolution, and later became the Supreme Leader of Iran.
Who is Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?