Early Cold War
The rivalry between these two superpowers defined the Cold War.
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This 1947 policy promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This line divided North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This organization was created after WWII to promote peace.
What is the United Nations?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
This program provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This general led UN forces before being fired by President Truman.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
This country was the location of Soviet missiles aimed at the U.S.
What is Cuba?
This body of the UN includes five permanent members with veto power.
What is the security council?
This U.S. action supplied West Berlin with food and fuel during a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This military alliance formed in 1949 to counter Soviet power.
What is NATO?
This country was the main supporter of North Korea during the war.
What is China?
This crisis ended with the removal of missiles from Cuba and secretly from this country.
What is Turkey?
This organization led military efforts in Korea.
What is the United Nations?
This 1946 event divided Germany’s capital into East and West sectors.
What is the division of Berlin?
This strategy relied on economic and military aid instead of direct conflict.
What is containment?
This was the main disagreement between Truman and MacArthur.
What is expanding the war into China vs. limiting the war?
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Using nuclear weapons.
This U.S. response prevented Soviet ships from delivering missiles.
What is a naval blockade (quarantine)?
These countries were founding members of NATO.
What are the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations?
This barrier, built later in 1961, symbolized Cold War division in Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This was the outcome of the Korean War.
What is a stalemate?
This rival alliance was formed by the Soviet Union in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?