Conflicts
A conflict where two opposing countries support different combatants in a local armed struggle, without waging war directly against one another.
What is a proxy war?
This country was trying to contain communism during the Cold War.
What is the U.S.?
The invention of these kinds of weapon played a major part in kick-starting the arms race between Americans and Soviets
What are nuclear bombs?
Two superpowers who competed in the Space Race.
What are the U.S.A and the USSR?
This term was coined by Winston Churchill to describe the political, military, and ideological barrier that separated the Soviet bloc from Western countries during the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
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. This particularly unstable time was due to this event.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was the communist country most feared by the US during the Cold War.
What is the USSR?
The location where Cuban exiles tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union launched this satellite into space on October 4, 1947.
What is the Sputnik?
This American-led organization constitutes a system of collective security whereby member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
A competition between nations that is focused on gaining honour, respect, and dominance in certain fields.
What is a prestige war?
This American policy was initiated to contain communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
These meetings between the United States and the Soviet Union began in 1971 and aimed to reduce the two countries' stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
What were the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)?
This organization was established by the US government to support its participation in the US-Soviet space race.
What is NASA?
A French term used to describe a period of eased geopolitical tensions and improved diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, particularly in the 1970s.
What is détente?
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was this kind of conflict.
What is an ideological conflict?
An American initiative providing financial aid to help rebuild Western European economies -- and promote capitalism -- after the end of World War II.
What was the Marshal Plan?
Initiated in response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, this American effort aimed to regain technological superiority and led to one of the most dramatic moments of the 20th-century arms race: the Apollo moon landing.
What was the Space Race?
This man was President of the United States when it landed a man on the moon.
Who is JFK?
This event came to symbolize the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Between 1945 and 1991
When did the Cold War take place?
An American senator who conducted aggressive investigations and questioning aimed at exposing supposed communist sympathies, often based on questionable evidence or no evidence at all.
Who was Joseph McCarthy
A military doctrine that holding that if two opposing sides both possess enough nuclear weaponry to destroy each other completely, then the guarantee of mutual total destruction will deter either side from actually using these weapons in a conflict.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This was the first country to photograph the Earth from space.
What is the U.S.?
A series of political and economic reforms undertaken in the USSR in the mid-1980s, aimed at reviving the stagnating Soviet economy by introducing elements of free market economics.
What is Perestroika?