Origins of the Cold War
What two countries were the main rivals in the Cold War?
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This wall divided a major German city into East and West during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
U.S. president during the start of the Cold War who supported containment.
Who is Harry Truman?
A conflictv without direct fighting between two major powers.
What is a Cold War?
This war fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of Cold War division.
What is the Berlin wall?
This economic plan helped rebuild Western Europe and stop the spread of communism.
Who is Marshall Plan?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Soviet leader during World War II and early Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
A buildup of weapons, especially nuclear weapons.
What is an arms race?
This country dissolved in 1991, officially ending the Cold War.
The Soviet Union
This political system was promoted by the U.S. during the Cold War.
What is capitalism?
This war (1950-1953) was fought between North and South Korea with Cold War tensions behind it.
What is the Korean War?
U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Countries allied with either the U.S. or Soviet Union.
What are alliances?
This policy allowed more openness in the Soviet Union.
Glasnost
This Soviet system focused on government control of the economy.
What is communism?
This long war involved the U.S. trying to stop communism in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
Soviet Leader who introduced reforms like glasnot and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The fear of communism spreading in the U.S. during the 1950s.
What is the Red Scare?
This policy restructured the Soviet economy.
Perestroika
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism worldwide.
What is containment?
This event involved the Soviet blockade of Berlin and Western air supply efforts.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
British leader who warned about the "Iron Curtain."
Who is Winston Churchill?
The strategy where both sides have enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other.
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
This agreement between the U.S. and USSR aimed to reduce nuclear weapons.
Arms reduction treaties (like START)