Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
The main ideological conflict was the struggle between
Capitalism and Communism
The leader of the communist nation of Cuba who survived the American Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Fidel Castro
A US president asked Congress for a $400 million appropriation specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece. He told Congress: "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures . . .
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This conflict was the closest the two superpowers ever came to nuclear war after the USSR installed nuclear weapons on an island near the US.
Cuban Missile Crisis
A protracted conflict that took place between 1945 and 1949. This revolution ultimately led to the establishment of the largest Communist Nation on October 1, 1949, with the CCP under the leadership of Mao Zedong in control of the government.
Chinese Communist Revolution
This conflict was between the Soviet-backed forces to the north and the pro-Western forces to the south.
They eventually negotiated an armistice around which geographical landmark.
2 answers
What was Korean War and the 38th parallel.
This Committee was responsible for investigating communists in America and resulted in the blacklisting of many in Hollywood.
HUAC
A term, popularized by Winston Churchill, described the symbolic division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs during the Cold War, representing the divide between democratic and communist countries?
The Iron Curtain
The policy that JFK practiced when dealing with the USSR, convincing the opposition that he was willing to use any and all resources/tactics to win the war.
Brinkmanship
In 1948, the Russians closed all highways, railroads and canals into western-occupied Berlin. They believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air.
What was Berlin Airlift?
This started the Space Race between the US and USSR.
What was Sputnik?
This treaty was designed to promote transparency and reduce the risk of military conflict during the Cold War by allowing participating countries to conduct unarmed aerial reconnaissance flights over each other's territories.
Open Skies Policy
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a tense confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war?
Nikita Khrushchev
These two policies were enacted by the last premier of the Soviet Union and allowed more transparency and a restructuring of the political/economic system.
Perestroika and Glastnost
In 1960, an American reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Gary Powers was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile while conducting a covert mission over Soviet territory. The incident heightened Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
U-2 Spy Incident
The collapse of the Soviet Union can be tied to what 4 causes?
Perestroika
Glastnost
Massive Spending
Recession
The name of the covert operation carried out by the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s that involved the recruitment of German scientists, including Wernher von Braun, to work on rocket technology, which later played a pivotal role in the Space Race during the Cold War?
Operation Paperclip
The last leader of the Soviet Union, known for his policies of glasnost and perestroika, which led to its dissolution.
Mikhail Gorbachev