Democracy
What is the policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world?
containment
Iron Curtain
What organization is made up of independent states(nations) that was formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security?
United Nations
Cuban leader Fidel Castro allowed the Soviet Union to put nuclear missiles up in Cuba facing the USA. The USA and the Soviet Union were in a two week stand off that almost led to nuclear war. What was this called?
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy ordered that no ships could enter or leave Cuba until the Soviet Union removed their nuclear weapons from Cuba. What was this called?
naval blockade of Cuba
What program provided money to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII?
Marshall Plan
What did East Germany do to keep citizens from escaping East Berlin into West Berlin?
built the Berlin Wall
What alliance of Democratic nations made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country? Members were US, England, France, Canada, and Western European countries.
NATO (North American Treaty Organization)
The USA and the Soviet Union quickly built up their respective armed forces and weapons to try and become stronger than the other. What was this called?
arms race
Which part of Germany and Berlin was under communist rule, and a command economy, and was controlled by the Soviet Union?
East Berlin and East Germany
capitalism
Who controlled East Germany and East Berlin?
Soviet Union
What alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations was formed?
Warsaw Pact
The US sent supplies to West Berlin when the communists blockaded the roads. What was this called?
Berlin Airlift
Which part of Germany and Berlin was democratic, had a capitalist economy, and was controlled by the US, Great Britain, and France?
West Germany
What two nations remained/became communist after their conflict/war was over?
North Korea and Vietnam
Communism
What is the idea that if a nation falls to communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control?
Which conflict ended in the US successfully containing communism?
The Korean War--North Korea did not take over South Korea, so South Korea remained democratic.
What were the effects of the Vietnam War?
--USA retreated
--Vietnam became one united country
--Vietnam become communist
--the public lost faith in their government (in USA)
Which part of Korea was democratic and capitalistic?
South Korea
Who was the dictator in the Soviet Union that used the Five-Year Plan to increase industrial production and used terror to crush opposition?
Joseph Stalin
What was the belief that nuclear war does not make sense because everyone would be destroyed?
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
Which conflict did not successfully contain communism?
Vietnam War--the US left the conflict and Southern Vietnam lost, so now it is one country (Vietnam) ruled under communism.
What was the era that increased tension between the USA and the Soviet Union (1945-1991) because of different ideas on how a government should be run?
Cold War