Cold War 1
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall plan?
This multinational military organisation was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.
What is NATO?
The country that was trying to contain communism.
What is the U.S.?
The communist country that U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)?
Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created their own international military organization to counter-act what the US and other western nations were doing during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The secret East German police.
What is the Stasi?
The leader of the Cuban revolution.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Theory that if one nation falls, its neighbors will fall.
What is Domino Theory?
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The crisis that lasted thirteen days.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The major event that occurred in 1989.
What was the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This incident triggered the U.S's involvement in the Vietnam War.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
The fact that the nuclear weapons that were being created by the US and the Soviet Union were extremely powerful and dangerous made the ______ so terrifying.
What is the Arms Race?
This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.
What is Germany?
The guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s–1975) and the United States.
What was the Viet Cong?
South Vietnam was led by this non-communist leader who asked the United States for help in defeating the Communist-run North Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dihn Diem?
This Soviet Union leader introduced "glasnost" and "perestroika" and reformed the government and economy of the country and helped to end Communism there.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
Containment
The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of new technology, especially the building of space craft and rocket ships?
What is the Space Race?
A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The witch hunt undertaken in the United States to eliminate "communist" government members.
What was McCarthyism?
The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They gathered to decide how to administer Germany. THe goals of the conference also included establishing the postwar order, solving issues on the peace treaty, and countering the effects of the war.
What was the Potsdam conference?
Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
His five-year plan was a complete disaster and many people in Eastern Europe started to wonder if Communism would actually work.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
It was held February 4–11, 1945, as the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganisation of Germany and Europe.
What was the Yalta conference?
The organisation established in January 1949 to facilitate and coordinate the economic development of the eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet bloc.
What was Comecon?
The official central organisation of the International Communist Movement from 1947 to 1956.
What was Cominform?