Cold War Vocab

Question 1

The first artificial satellite launched into space. Its launch by the Soviets marked the beginning of the Space Race

Answer 1

Sputnik I 1957

Question 2

Mutrual defense alliance amoung the nations of Western Europe and North America. Designed to contain the spread of Communism

Answer 2

NATO 1949

Question 3

The US policy of containing the spread of Communism. Containment was the foundation of US foreign policy from 1940s to the fall of the Soviets in 1990s. This policy was conceived by George Kennen, a state department employee and expert on Soviet.

Answer 3

Containment

Question 4

Cold War competition between US and Soviet for supremecy in technology and spaceflgiht

Answer 4

spacerace

Question 5

Term introdued by Churchill to descibe the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe after WWII

Answer 5

Iron Curtain

Question 6

Soviet leader that denounced Stalin in 1956 and improved the Soviets image abroad. (Lost his power in 1964 after failing to improve the Soviet’s economy)

Answer 6

Nikita Khruschev

Question 7

Treaty between the US and Soviets to limit the number of strategic nuclear missisles in each country. The US Congress did not approve the treaty because the Soviet invasion of Afganistan

Answer 7

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) 1979

Question 8

Practice under Eisenhower of trying to win internaitonal disputes through willingness to push dangerous situations to the brink of war

Answer 8

brinkmanship

Question 9

Military crisis between US and Soviet over a secret Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear misscles in Cuba

Answer 9

Cuban Missle Crisis 1962

Question 10

The first hydrogen bomb, a thousand times stronger than the atomic bomb dropped in Japan, was tested by the US in south pacific in 1952. The Soviets, after their first A bomb in 1949, tested their first Hydrogen bomb in 1952

Answer 10

Development of Hydrogen bombs 1952

Question 11

President Kennedy’s strategy of considering a varity of military and nonmilitary options when facing foreign policy decisions

Answer 11

Flexable Response

Question 12

President Truman’s policy of providing economic and military aid to counties threatened by communism

Answer 12

Truman Doctrine 1947

Question 13

Program developed to promote economic recovery in Western Europe with massive amounts of US financial help

Answer 13

Marshall Plan

Question 14

Policy of relaxing tensions between the US and Soviets, introduced by Nixon during the early 1970s

Answer 14

detente

Question 15

Treaty between the US and Soviet to limit offensive nuclear weapons and defensive antiballistic missile system

Answer 15

Stragetic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) 1972

Question 16

A war of words and threats between the Soviets and US that was marked primarity by a political and economic, rathter than military, struggle between two nations

Answer 16

Cold War

Question 17

Treaty signed by US, Soviets, and 100 other nations that banned nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater

Answer 17

Limited Test Ban Treaty 1963

Question 18

After the Soviet invaded Afganistan in dec 1979, President Carter placed an embargo on wheat shipments to Russia, increased spending on defense, and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow

Answer 18

Soviet Invasion of Afganistan

Question 19

Term used by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that implied the US was willing to use nuclear force in response in Communist agression

Answer 19

massive retaliation

Question 20

President Nixon’s policy of requiring countires threatened by communism to assume most of the military burden, with the US offering political and economic support

Answer 20

Nixon Doctrine

Question 21

Response of the US and GB to the Soviet’s blockade of the West Berlin. Supplies were sent to West Berlin with countinuous flights of thousands of US and GB airships

Answer 21

Berlin Airlift 1948

Question 22

President Eisenhower’s policy of reducing the size of the army, developed tactical nuclear weapons, and building strategic air power to employ nuclear weapons. Came to be known as Bigger Bang for the Buck

Answer 22

New Look 1955

Question 23

Soviet theory under Khruschev that the Soviets could coexist peacefully with the US. Ended in 1960 when the US was caught flying U-2 spy planes over the Soviets

Answer 23

peaceful coexistance