A competition between nations to expand their stock pile of weapons and armaments in order to gain a military superiority over other nations.
arms race?
100
Germany
East _________ builds Berlin Wall.
100
Truman worked tirelessly to clean up the postwar mess and establish a new international order.
Truman’s Postwar Vision
100
The thirty-fifth U.S. president
John F. Kennedy
200
Soviet-controlled East Germany divides Berlin with the Berlin Wall.
1961
200
The state of hostility, without actual warfare, that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
cold war?
200
China; Bomb
_____ explodes its first atomic _____.
200
Although Stalin joined with the United States in founding the United Nations, he fought Truman on nearly every other issue.
Stalin’s Postwar Vision
200
Vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
300
Ocotber 1964 China dropped its first Atomic Bomb
What was a major fact that happened in Oct. in the Cold War
300
The "boundary" that divided Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western European nations not under Soviet domination.
iron curtain?
300
Richard
President ________ Nixon visits China.
300
Cold War tensions between the United States and the USSR eventually exploded in Korea when Soviet-backed North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950.
What is the The Korean War
300
Secretary of state under Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
400
Cuba becomes communist under Fidel Castro.
1959
400
the Soviet Union launched the first man-made earth satellite
Sputnik
400
Poland
Communists seize power in __________.
400
Facing term limits, Eisenhower endorsed Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960.
Kennedy and the New Frontier
400
Republican congressman from California who rose to national fame as a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee
Richard M. Nixon
500
More than 300,000 East Germans flee to West Berlin and then to West Germany.
1953
500
the "boundary" that divided Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western European nations not under Soviet domination.
iron curtain?
500
Vietnam
South ______ falls to Communist forces.
500
A General
Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms (1953-1961) to ease the tensions of the Cold War.