Major events
What year did the Cold War start?
1945
First country to develop and use nuclear weapons
United States
Who was the Cold War between?
Soviet Union and United States
Who was the Soviet Union leader during the Cold War?
Joseph Stalin
What year did the Cold War end?
1991
What was the Berlin Blockade? Who made it?
Joseph Stalin: Cut off trade and transportation between West Berlin and East Berlin.
The year of the Soviets' first atomic bomb testing
1949
What posed a threat to the Soviet Union and United States?
The use of nuclear weapons, especially in proxy wars.
Who was the first man to land on the moon during the Space Race?
Neil Armstrong
Who aided in the end of Cold War?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? What did the U.S do, naval-related?
An event of major confrontation on the United States side due to the threat from the Soviet Union, with the hosting of missiles in Cuba. The United States was contained/ blockaded by naval ships.
How many nuclear bombs did the US have by 1991?
18,000
What does M.A.D stand for, and what is its idea?
Mutually Assured Destruction: If both opposing sides made full use of nuclear weapons, it would result in complete destruction.
How many U.S. presidents were during the Cold War? Who was the first one?
9 presidents , and the first was Harry. S. Truman
What marked the end of the Cold War?
1949 event that marked the start of the Cold War is?
Detonation of the Soviet Atomic Bomb
1952 US testing of a nuclear weapon was of the...
Hydrogen bomb
The resistance to communism is stated in this policy, which is believed to be the actual start of the Cold War.
The Truman doctrine
Which figure created the ' Iron Curtain' and what did it do?
Winston Churchill: divided Europe into two separate spheres during the Cold War.
After the Cold War, the Military Alliance was made up of Western Countries are?
NATO
What theory did the United States use to prevent the spread of communism, like Korea and Vietnam?
Domino Theory
Negotiations between the USSR and the US to limit the amount of nuclear weapons on both sides.
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
A 1948 act which aimed to rebuild European society after WWII, and to prevent communism from spreading. -> Countered Soviet influence
Marshall Plan
Who was known for efforts to contain communism in the U.S?
Hint: In power during Cuban Missile Crisis.
JFK (John. F. Kennedy)
Formation of this defense treaty between the USSR and Eastern Blocs is the?
Warsaw pact