Containment
This was the idea that if one European or Asian country fell to communism, their neighboring countries would fall to communism as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
This was the "safety" plan given to children in schools during the heights of the Cold War to "save" them from nuclear war.
What are the "duck and cover" safety plans?
Who is Richard Nixon?
This competition started in 1957 with the Soviet launching of Sputnik.
What is the Space Race?
This individual was responsible for coining the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the Soviet control of Eastern Europe.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This was the economic plan for the United States to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II to help prevent the spread the communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This President was responsible for the handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
These were the talks between the Soviet Union and the United States to try and improve Cold War relations by limiting the number of nuclear weapons.
What is Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)?
This was considered to be a barrier between Eastern and Western Europe and was brought down in the late 1980s.
Following Sputnik, this is why the American government was so concerned with the launching of satellites into space.
Following World War II, the Soviets and Joseph Stalin had control of this region in Europe.
What is Eastern Europe?
This was the name given to the first major operation of the Cold War that gave aid to citizens within Soviet-controlled Germany.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This is Soviet leader most associated with Detente.
This President was known for putting a large amount of economic pressure on the Soviet Union through increased military spending.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This individual was accused of going on a "witch hunt" that targeted government employees as he looked for Communist in the government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
These were the two countries that the Truman Doctrine most targeted at the beginning of the policy.
What is Turkey and Greece?
Who is Fidel Castro?
The invasion of this country officially ended the Detente era.
What is Afghanistan?
This was the final leader of the Soviet Union who made serious reforms to the Soviet Union that eventually led to its fall.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This university was where 4 students were killed by National Guardsmen and heightened the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States.
What is Kent State University?
This President signed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution which ramped up the American troop involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This was the dividing line between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This event led to the downfall of Richard Nixon and detente in the United States.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This was the first President of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Who was Boris Yeltsin?
This was the name of the Committee that Senator Joseph McCarthy and others used to "find" Communists in the government.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?