Cold War Flashcards
1
Q
Iron curtain
A
East v west Europe
2
Q
Berlin blockade/airlift
A
Russia surrounded Berlin to keep people from leaving we airlifted in supplies
3
Q
Domino effect
A
1 country turns communist everyone else starts to turn communist too
4
Q
NATO and Warsaw Pact
A
Alliances for us and Russia
5
Q
Marshal plan
A
Give money to other countries so they don’t turn
6
Q
Space race
A
U.S. V Russia to put a man on the moon
7
Q
Cuban missile crisis
A
Russia was going to bomb us
8
Q
Nikhail gorbachev
A
Last leader of the SU gave some freedoms like voting
9
Q
Berlin Wall
A
Seperate to keep east and west separate
10
Q
Collapse of the Soviet Union
A
Went broke
11
Q
Ideology of superpowers
A
USA and Russia
