Vocabulary
A pattern of competitive acquisition of military capability between two or more countries.
What is the Arms Race?
Conference where the allied powers discussed how to handle a defeated Germany, the fate of Poland, and the final destruction of Japanese military power.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
Belief that Soviets wanted to spread Communism around the World and that Americans wanted to destroy Communism.
What is the Cold War?
A United States geopolitical foreign policy, introduced in 1947, designed to halt the expansion of Soviet power and the spread of communism after World War II.
What is containment?
A device designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes.
What are nuclear weapons?
The ideological, political, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas—Soviet-aligned Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe—from the end of World War II (1945) until the end of the Cold War (1991)
What is the Iron Curtain?
Meeting after World War II with the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
A period of public fear and anxiety over the supposed rise of communist or socialist ideologies in a noncommunist state.
What is the Red Scare?
The United States sent a package of aid totaling 13 billion dollars to Europe to rebuild to stop the spread of Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
British Prime Minister during the Cold War.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Competition (roughly 1957–1975) between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
What is the Space Race?
The world's first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, marking the beginning of the Space Age.
What is Sputnik?
Barrier built to separate East and West Germany during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The United States would provide money to all countries threatened by communist expansion.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
What is the Vietnam War?
A communist-led guerrilla force and political organization in South Vietnam that fought against the South Vietnamese government and the United States during the Vietnam War (1955–1975)
What is the Viet Cong?
The West used planes to supply the 2.5 million people in West Berlin with food and living supplies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A political and military alliance of countries from Europe and North America where its members are committed to protecting each other from any threat.
What is NATO?
A belief that if one nation in a region came under communist control, neighboring nations would inevitably follow, falling like a row of dominoes.
What is the Domino Theory?
Year that the Berlin Wall fell.
What is 1989?
A device designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes.
What are nuclear weapons?
A major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A potent herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War (1961–1971) to destroy jungle cover and food crops.
What is Agent Orange?
A Soviet-led military and political alliance formed in 1955 to counter NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
A conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives, also known as the "the forgotten war."
What is the Korean War?