Conflicts
Fought between 1950-1953, this was the first war the U.S. entered to try to stop the spread of Communism in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
American President at the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Harry Truman?
Leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This agreement protects its members against attack from the Western democracies of the world.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
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 dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Leader that allowed Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union to install nuclear weapons in his country in an attempt to threaten the Americans
Who is Fidel Castro?
The operation to get food and supplies into West Berlin after Soviets blockaded the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense to its members against Soviet aggression.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Ho Chi Minh's army used guerilla war tactics to defeat the U.S. and their allies. This success led to the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. What war is being described?
What is the Vietnam War?
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Korea from communism.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Economic ideology where ordinary people and businesses control the production of goods and services.
What is Capitalism?
Which ideological conflict was at the center of the Cold War?
What is Democracy/Capitalism vs. Communism?
The fear that if Vietnam falls to Communism, so will all the countries next to it.
What is the Domino Theory?
Economic philosophy where the government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources.
What is Communism?
Program proposed and executed by Mao Zedong and the CCP to increase its agricultural output, but failed & led to widespread famine and death.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
What event is considered to have ended the Cold War?
The Berlin Wall being knocked down in 1989.
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. His accusations, however, led to people's reputation and careers being affected. What is this called?
What is being blacklisted?
Countries that chose to not ally with the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R.
What are non-aligned countries?
Conflicts fought indirectly. Examples: Korea & Vietnam
What is Proxy Wars?
Richard Nixon's plan to withdraw troops from Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?