Ideologies & Systems
Why is it called the Cold War?
US and Russia never engaged in direct, large-scale combat
This was the president prior to the start of the Cold War.
Who was FDR?
This U.S. policy during World War II provided military aid to Allied nations and strengthened American global influence.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Which countries were the primary adversaries in the Cold War?
What is Russia and the US
This 1946 conflict increased Cold War tensions when the Soviet Union delayed withdrawing troops from northern Iran.
What was the Iran Crisis of 1946?
This economic system is based on private ownership of property and businesses, with prices largely determined by supply and demand.
What is Capitalism?
This British leader popularized the phrase “Iron Curtain” to describe the division of Europe after World War II.
Who was Winston Churchill?
This term described the political and ideological divide separating Western Europe from Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
This American program provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe and reduce the appeal of communism after World War II.
What was The Marshall Plan?
This 1948–1949 confrontation occurred when the Soviet Union blocked land access to West Berlin, prompting a Western airlift.
What was the Berlin Blockade?
This political and economic ideology advocates collective ownership of the means of production and the elimination of class distinctions.
Communism
This U.S. president oversaw the end of World War II and helped establish early Cold War policies toward the Soviet Union.
Who was Harry Truman?
This 1945 conference brought Allied leaders together to decide postwar arrangements but exposed growing mistrust between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What was the Yalta Conference?
This military alliance formed in 1949 committed the United States and Western European nations to collective defense.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This structure, built in 1961, physically divided Berlin and was intended to prevent citizens from leaving East Germany.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This Cold War concept describes a conflict in which major powers support opposing sides in smaller regional wars rather than fighting each other directly.
What is a Proxy War?
This Soviet leader expanded communist influence across Eastern Europe following World War II.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
This U.S. foreign policy aimed to limit the spread of communism rather than directly confront the Soviet Union militarily.
What is Containment?
This Soviet-led alliance was created in response to NATO and bound Eastern European communist nations together militarily.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
This 1962 crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union closest to nuclear war after missiles were discovered in Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?