Cold War 1945-1991

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

-A series of hostility and competition between the US and the USSR. They never actually fought face-to-face, but instead fought through rumors, lies, forming allies, making the other side look bad, etc.

Question 2

Containment

Answer 2

• US policy of keeping communism where it is.
• The US will not fight communism where it is already established, but will fight commuting, wherever it tries to spread.

Question 3

Domino Theory

Answer 3

-US belief that if one country goes communist, they will all go communist.

Question 4

Cuba

Answer 4

~Went communist, under Fidel Castro, in the 1950’s:

• Operation Mongoose.
• Bay of Pigs Fiasco.
• Cuban Missile Crisis.