Early Cold War Test

This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.

Satellite Nations/Warsaw Pact

This action provided vital supplies to a city blockaded by the Soviet Union.

Berlin Airlift

Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after WWII.

United Nations

This aid program was directed “not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”

Marshall Plan

This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end of WWII.

Cold War

The technique of making unsupported charges of disloyalty without regard for the basic rights of the accused.

McCarthyism

This event led Khrushchev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold.

U-2 Incident

This is the willingness to go to the edge of all-out war.

Brinkmanship

This separated East Germany from West Germany.

Berlin Wall

This was a direct communication link set up during John F. Kennedy’s presidency.

Hot Line

This event almost led to an invasion of Cuba and brought the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to the brink of nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

He believed the best way to avoid a third world war was to allow nations self-determination.

Truman

He argued that the Korean War should be extended into a full-scale war against China.

MacArthur

The Senate eventually condemned him for improper conduct that tended “to bring the Senate into disrepute.”

McCarthy

Judge Irving Kaufman declared her crime “worse than murder” for giving atomic secrets to the Soviets.

Ethel Rosenberg

He warned that losing a U-2 could ruin his effectiveness.

Eisenhower

This U-2 pilot was captured after his plane was shot down over the USSR.

Francis Gary Powers

He was the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Kennedy

He accepted Soviet aid for Cuba.

Castro

He squared off against Kennedy during the Berlin Crisis.

Khrushchev

Capitalist system ideologies

Free Market

The main goal of the Truman Doctrine

Stop Communism

Events immediately following the U-2 incident

Summit Canceled

Accusations made by Joseph McCarthy

Communists in Gov

The Soviet blockade of West Berlin

Response to Reunify

Outcomes of the Armistice ending the Korean War

38th Parallel

American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb

Nuclear Race

The Eisenhower Doctrine

Aid to Middle East