The Cold War was a conflict between these two super powers.
What is American and Soviet Union
100
The Soviet buffer zone between western Europe and themselves.
What is The Iron Curtain
100
Who won the Korean War?
What is Neither side, a peaceful ceasefire was negotiated.
100
The failed invasion of 1,500 Cuban rebels to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is Bay of Pigs
100
Going to the edge of war.
What is Brinkmanship
200
Who are the "Big Three"?
Who is Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.
200
The anti-Soviet military alliance established after the Soviets successfully test their first atomic bomb.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
200
North Korea's ally to the immediate North.
What is China
200
The Soviets built this in 1961 to prevent the defection of Eastern Germans.
What is the Berlin Wall
200
This meeting limited the number of missiles countries could have.
What is Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
300
This meeting set the stage for American, British, and Russian plans after World War II. Russia wanted all the territory it had gained, and the British and U.S. forces would invade Europe.
What is the Tehran Conference
300
The massive financial aid package used to rebuild western Europe.
What is Marshall Plan
300
American president who fires MacArthur.
Who is Harry Truman
300
Incident of U.S. spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U2 Incident
300
The policy of lessening Cold War tensions.
What is Détente
400
This meeting allowed the creation of the United Nations and answered the question of how to divide up Germany after World War II.
What is Yalta Conference
400
In response to the anti-Soviet military alliance, Nikita Krushchev created this military alliance in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact
400
The commander-in-chief of United Nations forces.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur
400
John F. Kennedy blockaded the island of Cuba during this major crisis.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
400
This term means being open to ideas that brought remarkable changes and more freedoms to the Soviet Union.
What is Glasnost
500
This meeting allowed the Soviet Union to gain the region around Poland and gave the Americans occupation rights of Japan.
What is Potsdam Conference
500
This doctrine created in 1947 by the President of the United States called the U.S. to help prevent Europe from falling to communism.
What is Truman Doctrine
500
The demilitarized line that separates North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel
500
This treaty was an attempt to reduce tensions of nuclear conflict and reduced the number of weapons each country could have.
What is Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
500
This term means an economic restructuring that allowed small businesses owners in the Soviet Union to own their businesses.