People/Groups
This organization was founded in 1947 by Congress as an intelligence-gathering organization used to defeat communism
What is the CIA?
The year of the start of the Cold War
What 1947?
An independent nation under the control of a more powerful one
What is a satellite state?
Define “Cold" in Cold War
What is no “hot” military conflict?
Who first used the phrase “An Iron Curtain”?
Who is Winston Churchill?
The belief that only by going to the brink of war could the USA protect itself from communist aggression
What is Brinkmanship?
The year Truman becomes president
1945
The American policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders
Containment
“An iron curtain”
What is the divide between Eastern European “satellite states” and the Western European states?
What does NATO stand for, and what was its purpose?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-whose goal was to provide military alliance to counter Soviet expansion
Policy of Eisenhower that stated that the USA would provide military assistance to any nation threatened by communism
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
The years of the start and peace of the Korean War
What is 1950 and 1953?
The allies flew all necessities into West Berlin for over a year, as other methods of transportation were blocked off by Stalin
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Truman becomes alarmed at Potsdam
What is Stalin refused to allow free elections in eastern Europe?
In a response to NATO, this group was formed as a rival power by the Soviet nations and satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This plan allowed the USA to give $13 billion to Western Europe
What is The Marshall Plan?
A conflicted erupted during the Olympics of _____(year) between the water polo teams of Hungary and the Soviet Union. The event was known as "Blood in the Water Match"
1956
The line that divided the two, independent Koreas
What is the 38th parallel?
An unofficial contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons
What is an arms race?
An alliance formed in Asia to defend against the spread of Communism.
What is SEATO/Southeast Asia Treaty Organization?
The Truman Doctrine was composed by the USA for the benefit of what two nations?
What is Greece and Turkey?
The year when Stalin stops all railway, highway and waterway traffic in attempt to regain West Germany for the soviets
What is June 1948?
A policy in which Americans and Soviets hoped to deter nuclear war by building enough weapons to destroy one another
What is mutually assured destruction?
What did the armistice establish?
What is Status quo antebellum or "the existing state of affairs before the war"?