Cold War Vocab
a policy of containment of communism.
The truman doctrine
The bay of pigs
The cuban missile crisis
peace corp.
John F Kennedy (JFK)
The USSR and the United States tried to be the first country to put a man on the moon.
The Space Race
1948
Berlin Airlift
a buffer zone between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea
38th Parallel
n aid packet of supplements to west europe to help spread democracy.
The Marshall Plan
was a U.S. senator and involved in the Red Scare and directed McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy
North Korea communist vs South Korea democratic
Korean War
1969
Apollo landed on the moon
wrote the Truman Doctrine and signed the Marshall Plan.
Harry Truman
Alliance of western countries to protect one another and to help avoid future wars.
NATO
told Gorbachev to tear down the wall
Ronald Reagan
Viet Cong Communism vs the US. They used guerrilla warfare.
The Vietnam War
1950
Korean War
quote "I am not a crook" - Watergate
Ricard Nixon
European countries help each other politically and financially.
EU
president during the Vietnam War
Lydin B Johnson (LBJ)
Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward
Civil war in china
1989
The fall of the Berlin Wall
What year did Spudnik land on the moon
1957
Transformed china into a socialist society.
The great leap forward
Was Marxism involved in the missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs.
Fidel Castro
Cambodia Genocide by
Pol Pot
1961
bay of pigs
What year did the Vietnam War start, and Martin Luther King was assassinated.
1968