Figure of speech used to describe the heavily guarded borders between communist Eastern Europe and non-communist Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain
100
Build-up of weaponry and technology in an effort to keep
ahead of the adversaries.
What is arms race
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the USA
100
Attitude and political actions of a country that seek to extend
its power and territory, generally by force.
What is expansionism
100
It was the first conflict to use a multi-national force under the authority of the United Nations; a success for the US policy of containment
What is the Korean War
200
First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.
What is Sputnik
200
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War
200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR
200
A Cold War theory in which the United States and Soviet Union each used its ability to launch a nuclear counterattack to deter a first strike from the other side; each side could guarantee the others destruction
What is Mutually Assured Destruction
200
The event was a successful effort by the United States and Britain to ship by air 2.3 million tons of supplies to the residents of the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin from June 1948 to May 1949
What is the Berlin Airlift
300
Period during which tensions between the superpowers were
somewhat reduced – like when Khrushchev first came to power, and during the Brezhnev-Nixon ‘70s.
What is detente
300
Landing area on Cuba's south coast where an American-organized invasion by Cuban exiles was defeated by Fidel Castro's government forces April 17-20, 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine
300
An anti-communist movement in the United states during the 1950s. It was intended to uncover and prosecute those with perceived ties to communism within the US government, universities, and entertainment industries.
What is McCarthyism
300
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 Crises
400
1970s negotiations aimed at reducing the superpowers’
nuclear arsenals.
What is SALT I and SALT II
400
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict
400
US policy of providing economic assistance to help war-
torn European countries rebuild after WWII, the idea being
that poverty is a fertile breeding grounds for communism
What is the Marshall Plan
400
This organization begun in 1949 as a military and political alliance of European nations and the United States and Canada designed to protect Western Europe from a Soviet attack.
What is NATO
400
1948 attempt by the Soviet Union to starve the western sectors of this German capital into submission.
What is the Berlin Blockade
500
Soviet-led Eastern European defense organization established in Warsaw, Poland, on May 14, 1955; the alliance countered the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
What is the Warsaw Pact
500
Policies and actions which push a dangerous situation to its limit before stopping, in the hope that the opposing party will make concessions; readying a country’s forces to the point of war in the hope that opponent will back down
What is brinkmanship
500
Part of the American policy to contain communism through
regional collective security defense alliances; in this case, the
region in question is South East Asia.
What is SEATO
500
Soviet attempt at integrating the economies of its Eastern
European satellite states.
What is COMECON
500
Second meeting of the Big Three leaders, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt; they met in the southern Russian town of _____ February 4-11, 1945, to discuss the occupation of postwar Germany and Eastern Europe