Early Cold War
General Cold War 1
Cold War Conflicts
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Fun Facts
100

This divided the continent between the Communist East and the US-aligned West.

Iron Curtain

100

The two major military alliances of the Cold War.

NATO and Warsaw Pact

100

This event occurred as a result of Soviet missiles being found in Cuba.

Cuban Missile Crisis

100

This was the idea that if one country fell to communism so would the others around it.

Domino Theory

100

The name of the Soviet spy in Bridge of Spies.

Rudolf Abel

200

This set out to help rebuild Western Europe following WWII.

Marshall Plan

200

This was built to keep East Germans from escaping into West Germany.

Berlin Wall

200

The leader of Communist China

Mao Zedong

200

US policy that focused on preventing the spread of Communism

Containment

200

This was the year the US first landed on the moon.

1969

300

The Soviet blockade of West Berlin prompted this Cold War event.

Berlin Airlift

300

This US policy promised US support to countries fighting communism

Truman Doctrine

300

The policy of replacing US troops in Vietnam with South Vietnamese troops

Vietnamization

300

The continual build-up of nuclear weapons between the US and USSR was known as...

The Arms Race

300

Loch Ness is in which country

Scotland

400

This was the number of zones Germany was initially divided into.

4

400

An effort in China to industrialize and expand collective farming.

Great Leap Forward

400

Korea was initially split along this parallel line

38th

400

These were communist sympathizers in South Vietnam

Vietcong

400

Africa is a song by which 80s band

TOTO

500

These conferences saw growing divisions between the Allied powers when discussing the world post-WWII.

Yalta and Potsdam

500

Soviet leader following the death of Stalin.

Nikita Khrushchev

500

Anti-communist leader of South Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem

500

The idea of pushing the enemy to the edge of war.

Brinkmanship

500

In what year did Scooby Doo first start playing on TV

1969