26. The cold war, 1960s and 1970s Flashcards
Name the Communist nation off the coast of Florida.
Cuba
Name the area of the world known for its oil reserves.
The Middle East
Name the organization created to keep peace in the world
United Nations
Name the imaginary barrier that prevented the free exchange of ideas and people between communist and free nations in Europe
The Iron Curtain
Name the operation in which the Allied nations flew supplies to Berlin for almost a year.
Berlin Airlift
Name the idea that communism must be kept within its existing boundaries and not allowed to spread.
The Policy of Containment
Countries in Eastern Europe that had communist governments and were partly controlled by the Soviet Union.
Satellites
Soviet built weapons whose discovery in Cuba caused a crisis in 1962.
Missles
Jewish nation created after World War II.
Isreal
Soviet Union’s answer to NATO.
The Warsaw Pac