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Asia
Europe
U.S.A.
Begining of the Cold War
Misc. Terms
100
Why is the Vietnam War considered a Cold War Event?
Because the U.S. was there to help contain or prevent the spread of communism.
100
Alliance between the Soviet Union and it's neighbors as a response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact
100
Whay was the united States so concerned with the take over of Fidel Castro in Cuba?
Because of it's location (90 miles off the coast of Florida)
100
Imaginary line through Europe dividing capitalist from communist countries.
What is the Iron Curtain
100
Organization that was created to keep peace in the world.
What is the United Nations
200
Thought that if one country in Asia fell to communism that all others would.
What is the Domino Theory
200
Alliance betweent the United States and Western European Nations against Communism.
What is NATO
200
What was different, on the homefront, between World War II and the Vietnam War?
What is during the Vietnam war their were significant amounts of protests.
200
Tactic used to get supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets created a blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift.
200
The United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What are Superpowers
300
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. What does this event signify?
What is the end of the Cold War/ Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union
300
An attempt by the United States to over throw Castro in Cuba by training and sending in Cuban exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion
300
Policy enacted to prevent the spread of Communism, included the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine.
What is Containment
300
policy created to help European Nations recover from World War II by giving them financial aid.
What is the Marshall Plan or the Truman Doctrine
400
Which Country falls to communism in the late 1940's
What is China
400
Policy that allowed Soiets to speak openly and freely.
What is Glasnost
400
Public Fear of the spread of communism
What is the Redscare/ McCarthyism
400
Policy to reduce tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is detente
500
Defense program that could shoot down soviet missles from space.
What is Star Wars
500
Event that brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union the closest to war?
What is the Cuban Missle Crisis
500
Agreement to limit arms in the United States and the Soviet Union
What is the SALT Argreement.