Cold War Flashcards
Cuba Missile Crisis
Russia set up nuclear bombs in Cuba, facing the US. JFK chose to blockade Cuba and used diplomacy to settle tension
John F Kennedy
US president during Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis
Brinkmanship
Willingness to go to the brink or edge of war
US and Russia stockpile nuclear weapons
The Rosenberg’s
US communists executed in 1953 for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union
Red Scar
people Accused belonging to the communist party in the US
Joseph McCarthy
Accused people belonging to the communist party in the US
KGB
Kmitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopanosti
Committee of State Security
Espionage
process of gathering information about a rival or enemy usually through secret operations
Sputnik
unmanned satellite above the earths atmosphere
Bert the Turtle
Cartoon for children so that they would be scared for nuclear war
Nikita Khrushche
New leader in Russia, Destalinzation
Warsaw Pact
organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe
Established May 14th,1955 in Warsaw Poland
Arms Race
Race for nuclear materials by US and Russia
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Created to coordinate defense against the USSR
Berlin Airlift
American and British forces fly food and supplies into Western Berlin for over 11 months because of Russias cutoff
