Conflict
The Cold war started and ended in
What is 1947,1991?
This fully surrounded the capital, cut off all ground traffic into and out of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Alliance brought together nations in response to the threat from the Soviet Union
What is NATO?
Leader of the Soviet Union at the end of WWII and during the beginning of the Cold War
Who is Joseph Stalin?
A political and economic system that a societies resources are owned by the state
What is Communism?
A conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
What is the Vietnam War?
Operation where the United States and Great Britain to supplied Berlin with essential goods after the Soviet Union blockaded land and water access.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
United States' policy of providing economic and military aid to nations resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Led the Cuban Revolution
Who is Fidel Castro?
This country sought to secure its borders by keeping power in central and eastern europe.
What is Russia?
The first satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This event almost led the United States and the Soviet Union to a nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A defense treaty was a Soviet-led alliance of Eastern countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This president is most known for being in office during the end of the Cold War in the US.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This conference in 1945, attended by the, aimed to shape post-war Europe.
What is The Yalta Conference?
U.S. leaders thought that the Soviet Union had helped plan this attack after the spread of communism.
What is the Korean War?
The US policy of preventing the expansion of communism, by limiting the Soviet Union's influence.
What is Containment?
This provided foreign aid to Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Who is Mao Zedong?
One of the Great Leap Forward negative impact
What is Widespread famine?
U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
The Yalta Conference divided Germany into 4 occupation zones controlled by what countries
US, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union
An economic agreement among communist nations during the Cold War.
What is COMECON?
He resigned and declared the Soviet Union dissolved.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This metaphor describes the political and geographical division between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc