Origins & Strategies
The Cold War was largely based on these two conflicting economic and political beliefs about government and money.
What are Capitalism and Communism?
The United States got involved in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War because they were trying to stop this from happening.
What is the spread of Communism?
This word describes the 1970s period of improved relations and a temporary "cooling off" or relaxation of tensions.
What is Détente?
When the Soviet Union blocked the roads to West Berlin, the U.S. got food and supplies to the city by doing this.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
In his famous 1987 speech, President Ronald Reagan demanded the Soviet Union to do this.
What is "Tear down the Berlin Wall"?
This was the official U.S. policy aimed at stopping communism from spreading to any new countries.
What is Containment?
The Korean War ended in 1953, and the country remains divided today at this location.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The SALT treaties attempted to do this to ease Cold War tensions.
What is limit the number of nuclear weapons?
The Berlin Airlift was considered a "smart way" to solve the blockade problem for this specific reason.
What is, it solved the problem without starting a direct, shooting war?
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 meant this for the people of Germany, undoing the division established after WWII.
What is they were reunited?
This doctrine promised that the U.S. would supply economic and military aid to any nation fighting against communism (specifically Greece and Turkey).
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This 1968 event severely changed the way Americans felt about fighting the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This military theory argues that having enough deadly weapons to completely destroy the other side actually prevents direct war.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
When President Kennedy discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, he ordered this action using the US Navy.
What is a Naval Blockade (or Quarantine)?
This massive event happened in 1991 that officially ended the Cold War.
What is the collapse/dissolution of the Soviet Union?
This program spent about $13 billion to rebuild Western Europe and stabilize their economies to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The United States grew extremely worried in 1950 when the Soviet Union formed an alliance with this large nation.
What is China?
Détente happened in the 1970s because both sides shared a fear of nuclear destruction and were worried about the cost of this.
What is the Arms Race?
The Cuban Missile Crisis is often considered the scariest point of the Cold War, lasting for exactly this many days.
What is 13 days?
This Soviet leader's reforms of Glasnost (Openness) and Perestroika (Restructuring) accidentally helped lead to the collapse of the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Formed in 1949, this military alliance of 32 countries was created for collective security and defense against the Soviet Union.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
The USSR and the USA rarely fought each other directly; instead, they fought these types of wars by supporting opposing sides in a third country.
What are Proxy Wars?
The nuclear arms race officially began when the Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb, trying to catch up to the U.S. who had used them in this war.
What is World War II?
Between the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis, this event brought the United States closer to actually fighting a direct war with the USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviet economy stalled in the 1980s because they spent all their money on nukes and bread subsidies trying to keep up with this U.S. President's massive military spending (like "Star Wars").
Who is Ronald Reagan?