The cold war

Term used to describe charging innocent people with ties to communism?

McCarthyism

Military alliance including the u.s and at least 10 other western countries

NATO

Endless race to acquire greater numbers of more and more powerful weapons?

Arms Race

Having so many weapons that both sides would be destroyed in an all out war

Mutually assured destruction

Divide communist Eastern Europe from democratic western Europe

The iron curtain

The belief that one communist take over a country will lead to others

Domino theory

Nations that are stronger than all other nations

Superpowers

The closest that the world has ever been to a nuclear war

Cuban missile crisis

Greatest mass murder in history

Mao Zedong

Led the communist revolution in Cuba, in which many innocent citizens were killed?

Fidel Castro

Economic containment policy by the US that provided aid for war toward countries in Europe after World War II

Marshall plan

Launched the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and then imposed a blockade on Cuba

John F Kennedy

Name for the Berlin airlift that provided nonstop supplies for those living in the Soviet occupied Berlin after World War II

Operation vitals

Outline the policy of containment with the goal of limiting the spread of communism throughout the world

Truman doctrine

Soviet leader after Stalin, who’s announced to many of Stalin‘s abuses

Nikita Khrushchev

Wisconsin leader, who stoked the fear of communism in the US?

Joseph McCarthy

Describe how Europe was divided during the Cold War

Europe was divided into two spheres of influence, western Europe, which was democratic and capitalist, and Eastern Europe, which was controlled by the Soviet Union and followed communism. This division was symbolized by the iron curtain.

Which two countries emerge, the major superpowers of the following World War II?

United States and the Soviet Union

Identify two countries where the Cold War became hot during Cold War era?

Cuba and China

Why did the Cold War begin?

The Cold War began due to the divide between the idealistic, democracy and capitalism and the Soviet Union and communism combined with mutual distress and competition for global influence after World War II, the US imposed containment after World War II, which escalates between the two called the Truman doctrine