Cold War 1
When did was the Yalta conference take place?
1945 (at the end of WWII)
What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba
Fidel Castro
Where North and South Korea agreed to split.
What is the 38th parallel?
This event took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This proxy war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting.
What is the Vietnam War?
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
Which organization was created as a collective security alliance to resist Soviet expansion?
NATO
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What side of the Berlin wall was communist?
What is East?
Disagreements at the end of World War II over the future of Germany’s capital city helps sparked early tensions
What is Berlin?
What was the Warsaw Pact?
The warsaw pact was a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries, primarily to counterbalance the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What was the Berlin airlift (1948-1949)?
A humanitarian effort by the US, Britain, and France, to support the citizens of the blockaded West Germany.
Organization of allied nations who joined forces in the West to support any threats of Communism.
What is NATO?
What is the Marshall plan?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory or Domino Effect?
This 1948-1949 event saw the Soviet Union blockading West Berlin, leading to a massive airlift by the Western Allies.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Why did American involvement in Vietnam begin?
To contain communism, stop the North Vietcong, spread more democracy
What were the Loyalty Review Boards?
an official federal department that sought to investigate the personal lives of government employees and look for communist ties or sympathies. These were a part of the Red Scare paranoia and suspicion
Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.
Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan?
US aeronautics program initiated by Reagan during the Cold War in order to compete with the USSR.
What is NASA?
What is McCarthyism?
a period of intense anti-communist suspicion in the early 1950s in the US
What event is considered the start of the end of the Cold War that eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
This US foreign policy doctrine, announced in 1947, pledged to support Greece and Turkey as they were resisting communist pressure.
What is the Truman Doctrine
What was the Space Race?
JFK's plan to put an American on the moon which resulted in billions spent on technology, research, and changes to education (and a focus on math and science)
This Soviet leader introduced Glasnost and Perestroika
Who is Mikhalil Gorbachev?
Was the Bay of Pigs successful?
NO.
What two regions had similar conflicts where they saw the U.S. and its allies supporting South against communist North and its Communist allies
What is Vietnam and Korea
This US president is known for the policy of détente the USSR
Who is Richard Nixon?
Which 3 countries supported West Germany?
France
Britain
United States