Cold War Review

Origins

100

This conference in 1945 included Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and decided how Europe would be organized after WWII.

Yalta Conference

200

This speech by Winston Churchill described the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.

Iron Curtain Speech

300

The Cold War was mainly a conflict between these two economic and political systems.

Capitalism and Communism

400

This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.

Containment

500

This economic program gave billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.

Marshall Plan

Conflicts

100

This war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.

Korean War

200

This line divided North Korea and South Korea after World War II.

38th Parallel

300

This war ended in 1975 when North Vietnam captured Saigon.

Vietnam War

400

This Cold War concept describes when powerful nations support opposing sides in another country’s conflict.

Proxy war

500

This Chinese communist leader established the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Mao Zedong

Tensions

100

This intelligence agency gathered information and conducted covert operations during the Cold War.

CIA

200

This policy involved pushing tensions to the edge of war to force the other side to back down.

Brinkmanship

300

This theory suggested nuclear war would not happen because both sides would be completely destroyed.

Mutually Assured Destruction

400

This period in the late 1940s and 1950s involved fear of communist influence in the United States.

Second Red Scare

500

This senator became famous for accusing many Americans of being communists without strong evidence.

Joseph McCarthy

Space Race

100

This Soviet satellite launched in 1957 shocked Americans and began the Space Race.

Sputnik

200

This U.S. organization was created in 1958 to lead space exploration.

NASA

300

This astronaut became the first American to orbit the Earth.

John Glenn

400

This mission in 1969 successfully landed humans on the Moon.

Apollo 11

500

This Soviet cosmonaut became the first human in space.

Yuri Gagarin

Crisis & End

100

This failed U.S.-supported invasion of Cuba happened in 1961.

Bay of Pigs Invasion

200

This 1962 crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

300

This policy by President Nixon aimed to reduce tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Détente

400

This agreement limited nuclear weapons between the U.S. and Soviet Union in 1972.

SALT I

500

This event in 1989 symbolized the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe.

Fall of the Berlin Wall