Cold War Reveiw Flashcards
Rivalry between US & Soviet Union fighting for world domination
Cold War
Govt. has total control
Communism
Flying supplies into Berlin to help those in need
Airlift
Commie North Korea invaded South Korea
Korean War
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made to stop communism
NATO
anti-commie senator who scared Americans about communism
Joseph McCarthy
Dictator of the Soviet Union after Stalin, planned Cuban missile crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
Symbolic boundary that divided Europe into 2
Iron Curtain
Soviet Union put missiles in Cuba and aimed at them at the USA
Cuban Missile Crisis
Wall that divided East Berlin (commies) and West Berlin
Berlin Wall
West & East Germany finally reunited
German Reunification
Cold War starts
1945
1950
Korean War stars, North Korea invaded South Korea
1961
Berlin Wall is built
What was the Cold War?
A 45 year long conflict between the US and Soviet Union