Cold War Review Flashcards
Name the two superpowers during the cold war
USSR (soviets) vs USA
This international organization was the idea of President Roosevelt, its primary goal was to prevent future wars and promote peace
United Nations
The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies, this was in response to a military alliance that included the USA, Canada, and much of Western Europe, what was this military alliance called?
NATO
After WWII, American birth rates increased significantly, what is this time period referred to as?
Baby Boom
In what form of government do citizens choose their leaders?
democracy
The Berlin Airlift was a US response to the Soviets blockading our access to this city
West Berlin
The Soviets launched the first satellite into space, what was the satellite called?
Sputnik
The US successfully test the first thermonuclear weapon in 1952, it was referred to as what type of bomb
hydrogen bomb
During the cold war, the CIA, the US Central Intelligence Agency, engaged in covert (secret) operations to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala and the Prime minister of what country?
Iran
It was the closest the US and the USSR ever came to nuclear war, it was resolved when the USSR agreed to remove its missiles from and the us promised never to invade what country?
Cuba
President Truman wanted to limit the Korean War to the Korean Peninsula and not introduce nuclear weapons, Gen. MacArthur wanted to expand the war beyond Korea and use nukes, what happened to MacArthur?
He was fired from his position
What is the term, used by Winston Churchill, to describe the imaginary diving line between western democratic Europe and eastern communist Europe?
Iron Curtain
The Truman Administration sent billions of dollars in aid to help rebuild a devastated Europe after WWII, what was this plan called?
Marshall Plan
This man became the “king od Rock n’ Roll” in the 1950’s
Elvis Presley
Who was the communist leader who won the Chinese Civil War in 1949?
Mao Zedong
Who was the first man in space (he was a Soviet)
Yuri Gargarin
They were allies during WWII but at the Potsdam Conference (near Berlin) after the surrender of Germany, we see growing tensions between the US, Great Britain, and this communist nation
The Soviet Union
Increased tensions between the USSR and the US when US pilot Gary Powers is shot down over the USSR, what type of spy plane was he flying?
U-2 spy plane
Eastern European nations under the control and domination of the Soviet Union were called what?
Satellite Nations
What US President declared that the US would go to the moon in “this decade”, 1960s?
Kennedy
What was the term used to describe, white middle-class Americans moving to the suburbs?
White Flight
The Eisenhower Doctrine declared that the US would defend this region of the world from Communism
Middle East
Eisenhower’s strategy of threatening the use of nuclear weapons to keep the peace and force the other side to back down, what was this called?
Brinkmanship
US policy of preventing the spread of communism in Europe and around the world?
Containment
