Causes
Stalin built a wall dividing East & West Germany.
What is the Iron Curtain? What is the Berlin Wall?
This vocab term means that when one ally is attacked, all the allies must go to war with them.
What is collective security?
This is a French term for relaxation of tension.
What is detente?
To prevent communism from growing.
What is containment?
How did people escape the USSR?
What are tunnels?
Name the two countries that the Cold War was between.
Who is the USSR? Who is the US?
The name of the treaty that was between the USSR & its satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This conflict was between the North & South of a country. The country is still divided to this day.
What is the Korean war?
This is the movement where countries in the Middle East & Africa decided to stay neutral in the Cold War.
What is the non alignment movement?
What weapon led to the start of the Cold War?
What is the atomic bomb?
Name BOTH of the conferences that were held between the US, Great Britain, & USSR BEFORE WWII was over.
What is the Potsdam conference? What is the Yalta conference?
Name 3 countries that are a satellite nation.
What is Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania?
This conflict was between the North & South of a country. The country did unify before the war was over.
What is the Vietnam war?
Define glasnost & perestroika.
Glasnost: openness
Perestroika: restructuring
Define what an ICBM is.
What is an intercontinental ballistic missile?
The US stepped up to help the Germans when Stalin put a blockade around the city. Name the vocab term.
What is the Berlin airlift?
Name the 4 countries that were involved in the separation of Berlin into 4 zones of occupation.
What is Great Britain, USSR, France, & the US?
This conflict was in the Caribbean where the Soviet Union had a weapon pointed at the US.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The US will now take on the role of leader of the world.
What is the Truman doctrine?
Define the arms race.
What is each country outdoing each other to have the best weapon?
Explain WHY the Cold War is called the Cold War.
What is that the USSR & the US never had a direct military conflict?
Name the leaders of the US & USSR when the Berlin Wall was taken down & the Cold War was over.
Who is Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev?
This conflict was the in the Middle East. The Muhajideen ended up defeating the Communists.
What is the Soviet Afghan war?
The US can buy influence in Europe through economic aid.
What is the Marshall plan?
This is the belief that the US will spend endless amounts of money on our superiority on the world stage.
What is the military industrial complex?