Allies become Enemies
Name of Winston Churchill's famous speech warning that Europe was divided by this line; the expansion of communism in Eastern Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
This is the name of the race between the Soviet Union and United States to build more nuclear missiles than the other
What is the Arms Race?
This communist country, supported by the Soviet Union, positioned nuclear missiles pointing at United States
What is Cuba?
This conflict's name means that no physical fighting against the two superpowers occurred, they only threatened each other with war
What is the Cold War?
This is the political and economic system practiced by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, characterized by government control of resources and property and classless society
What is communism?
This was constructed to limit the movement of people from Eastern Europe into Western Europe
What is the Berlin Wall?
Competition between the superpowers over who could put satellites and people into space
What is the Space Race?
Name of the arms control talks, or discussions between the US and the USSR to limit nuclear missiles
What are the SALT Talks?
The event when the US and its allies flew supplies and food into blockaded Berlin
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
The alliance created between the US, Canada, and Western European nations
What is NATO?
This country was falling behind in math and science education, and improved this in schools in order to win the Space Race
What is the United States?
Name for the event where nuclear missiles were almost launched against the Soviet Union
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The easing of tensions between the two superpowers
What is detente?
The U.S. could not stop communism from taking over - this country is still communist today
What is vietnam?
The alliance created between the USSR and Eastern European nations
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Name of the first satellite sent into space
What is Sputnik?
Who gave the speech that signaled the End of the Cold War;
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"
Who is US president Ronald Reagan?
The theory that if one country fell to communism, other countries would fall too
What is the Domino Effect?
What is containment?
Nations who did not wish to choose sides during the Cold War, they remained neutral
What is nonalignment?
Politics, the economy, and military are all tied together and all are involved in the production of weapons and military technologies.
What is the military industrial complex?
The phrase used to mean that if one country launches nuclear missiles, the other countries will launch nuclear missiles in return
What is mutually assured destruction?
Gorbachev’s policy of openness - encouraging free flow of ideas
What is glasnost?
Plan to restructure the Soviet Union's economy to add elements of capitalism
What is perestroika?
What words make up the acronym ICBM?
What is intercontinental ballistic missile?