Cold War Review Flashcards
Cold War
Rivalry between US and Soviet Union fighting for world domination.
Communism
Government 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 Khrushchev
Dictator of the Soviet Union after Stalin, planned Cuban missile crisis
Iron Curtain
Symbolic boundary that divided Europe into 2
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Union put missiles in Cuba and aimed them at the USA
Vietnam War
Commie North Vietnam fought South Vietnam
Berlin Wall
Wall that divided East Berlin (commies) and West Berlin
German Reunification
West and East Germany finally reunited