Cold War & Operation Postmaster Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for the Cold War arms race and Operation Postmaster.

Cold War Arms Race

Competition between the United States and the USSR from 1949-1989, focused on developing weapons.

John F. Kennedy

US President from 1961-1963 during the Cold War.

Richard Nixon

US President from 1969-1974 during the Cold War.

Nikita Khrushchev

USSR President from 1953-1964 during the Cold War.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs

Contributor to the development of nuclear weapons.

August 21, 1957

First USSR ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile).

Science and Math

US focused on these subjects due to academic competition during the Cold War.

Duck and Cover drills

Civil defense classes held in public schools during the Cold War.

Operation Postmaster

A covert mission by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister who assigned the Operation Postmaster mission.

Fernando Po

Location of Operation Postmaster, part of Equatorial Guinea.

Gus March-Phillipps

Major who led the operatives in Operation Postmaster.