Key Vocabulary
This is the idea that if one country uses its nuclear weapons other countries will retaliate and all will be destroyed
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
This event had the United States and western allies drop food and other supplies by airplane into a blockaded German city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
What had occurred right before the writing of the Declaration of Human Rights that justified its creation?
What is World War II, or What is the Holocaust?
This Wisconsin Senator lead the witch hunt against civil rights leaders or suspected communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy.
This type of Atomic bomb was created using Fission and was much more powerful than the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What are Hydrogen Bombs?
This term refers to when countries compete to create bigger and better weapons
What is an Arms Race?
This person was the president during the Korean war and stopped Douglas MacArthur from using Nuclear Weapons on China and elevating the war.
Who is Harry Truman?
This is the name of the Capitalist mutual defense pact
what is NATO
Under this system, the workers owned the means of production, the government controlled the economy, and people sought to eliminate class.
What is Communism?
This was the name of the American president during the Cuban missile Crisis
Who is John F Kennedy
This theory was the idea that communism must be limited to only the countries where it currently is
What is Containment?
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This African country featured a proxy war where the Americans supported one tribe while the Soviets Supported the other. The Cubans even sent soldiers to this country to support the communist side.
What is Angola?
This was he name of the Communist aligned mutual defense pact.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Under this system, private owners owned the means of production, supply and demand drove the economy, and class systems were reinforced as a means of getting people to work harder.
What is Capitalism?
This was the name of the Satellite that people were afraid of in The Iron Giant
What is Sputnik?
This is the theory that states if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries may also follow suit.
What is Domino Theory?
This failed invasion of Cuba resulted in them seeking Nuclear Weapons from the Soviet Union to protect themselves from the United States
What is the Bay of Pigs
Prior to the United Nations, the first group aimed creating an organization to promote International Collaboration was known as this.
What is the League of Nations?
This large generation of people were born shortly after World War II
What are Baby Boomers?
This was the name of the largest ever Nuclear Bomb
What is Tsar Bomba?
This term is used to define the area in which a powerful country exerts its control over other weaker countries.
What is Sphere of Influence?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis the United States housed Nuclear Missiles in this country
What is Turkey?
The International court of Justice is an organ of the U.N that deals with war criminals. It is also called this.
What is "The Hague"
Similar to the 1920s, during the 1950s the United States economy saw a surge in this.
What is Consumerism?
This was the name of the Soviet Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?