Cold War Flashcards
Cold War
Rivalry between U.S. and Soviet Union fighting for world domination
Communism
Govt. has total control
Airlift
Flying supplies into Berlin to help those in need
Korean War
Commie North Korea invaded South Korea
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made to stop communism
Joseph McCarthy
Anti- commie senator who scared Americans about communism
Nikita Khruvhchev
Dictator of the Soviet Union after Stalin, planned Cuban missile crisis
Iron Curtain
Symbolic boundary
Cuban missile crisis
Soviet Union put missions in Cuba and aimed them at the USA
Vietnam War
Commie North Vietnam fought South Vietnam
Occupation zones
Allies take over Germany
Berlin Wall
103 mile wall between East and West Berlin
Hot spot
Area of extreme tension
Distrust
Each side thought the other side was trying to rule the world
Germany
At the end of WWI the allies divided Germany into 4 sections