Cold War Flashcards
TMAC two ideas on how to govern, mutual distrust, arms race, competition
Causes of the Cold War
Political and military rivalry with the soviet
Cold War
Promote peace created after WWII
United Nations
Churchill’s description of Europe being divided by democracy and communism
Iron curtain
Plan to help rebuild Europe with economic aid from the U.S.
Truman doctrine
Soviets stopped all travel in and outbid Berlin
Beeline blockade
U.S. sends food and fuel to berlin by air.
Berlin airlift
military alliance Western Europe and United States
NATO
Military alliance Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
American couple who provided soviets with info to build atomic bomb. The last Americans to be executed for espionage
The Rosenberg’s
Soviet Union launches first satellite in 1957
Sputnik
Soviet Union shots down American U-2 spy plane
U-2 incident
CIA led invasion of communist Cuba in 1961
Bay of pigs
Soviets build a wall around the city of West Berlin
Berlin Wall
Soviets places nuclear missile in Cuba aimed at the United States
Cuban middle crisis