Cold War Terms
Cold War People
Cold War USSR/US
Cold War Asia
Cold War Stuff
100
This failed CIA operation in April 1961 to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba, using Cuban exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
100
Soviet leader from 1955-1964, responsible for putting missiles in Cuba.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
100
A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
The line where North and South Korea agreed to split after the Korean War?
What is the 38th parallel?
100
A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.
What is Communism?
200
This US President came to the Berlin Wall in the early 60s and told the people of West Berlin that he/United States would always support them against communism?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
The military alliance created in 1949, made up of 12 non-Communist countries as a collective defense alliance to provide mutual defense against the threat of Soviet expansion and to promote stability in Europe after World War II.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
200
The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
What is Domino Theory?
200
United States spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union?
U2 Spy Plane
300
This 1948-1949 event saw the Soviet Union preventing any travel to the Western part of this city, leading to a massive ___________by the Western Allies.
What is the Berlin Blockade? Airlift (teacher discretion)
300
This person represented the USSR in both the Potsdam and Yalta Conferences
Who is Josef Stalin?
300
This term was used to describe the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
300
This invasion by the North in 1950 started a United Nations War?
What is Korean War?
300
A program in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.A program in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.
What was the Marshall Plan?
400
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the ideological and physical barrier dividing Europe between East and West.
Who is Iron Curtain?
400
This President wanted to contain communism
Who is Harry Truman?
400
A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, built by the Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.
What is the Berlin Wall? 1960s
400
The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence, especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s. The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence, especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s.
What is containment?
400
Kennedy almost started WWIII when he found out this nation had nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union. They could reach the US in less than ten minutes
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
What are Satellite Nations?
500
33rd President of the United States. He fired General Douglas MacArthur over disagreements on the Korean War.
Who is Harry Truman?
500
A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to Free Nations threatened by Communist influence.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
500
Two starkly similar conflicts saw the U.S. and its allies supporting South against communist North and its Communist allies
What are Vietnam and Korea?
500
The creation of this new nation, by the United Nations, ended in a war and left a few million people without a country to live in (made them refugees).
What is the creation of the state of Israel?