Cold War 1
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This multinational military organization 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 the U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?
This law allowed soldiers returning home from World War II to be eligible for paid college education or job training
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?
This president faced the Cuban Missile Crisis and got the U.S. the closest its ever been to a nuclear war.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The leader of the Cuban revolution.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This was created by the United States in 1952.
This war ended in a stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
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 Soviet Union's launch of this satellite caused the United States to increase funding in technology, weapons, math, and science.
What is Sputnik?
This married couple was executed for passing secrets about the atomic weapon to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
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 country sought help from the United States to overthrow dictatorial regimes in a neighboring country.
What is South Korea?
This committee of the U.S. House of Representatives investigated suspected members of the communist party.
Who is the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
These decrypted messages revealed that some members of the U.S. government had in fact been helping the Soviet Union.
This foreign policy aided Greece and Turkey in order to contain communism.
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
Containment
This was the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union 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?
The two sets of ideologies that competed with each other in the Cold War were
What are communism and capitalism?
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?
This action caused the United States to engage in military action in Korea.
The Interstate Highway Act of 1965 grew this specific residential area because many American families lived there.
What are the suburbs?