Cold War Review 2022

When the Soviets placed nuclear weapons in Cuba to threaten the US

Which of the following was a military alliance made up of democratic nations?

Which two forms of government were competing in the Cold War?

The Cuban Missile crisis was significant because

Area of the world the Soviets immediately expanded to after WWII

Policy under Truman to stop the spread of communism to new territories

a phase of relaxed tensions and improved relations between two adversaries

As the Soviet Union crumbled, Eastern European nations

In 1958, the United States government increased spending on science and math education and research in reaction to the

hat was the economic/political system of East Germany?

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

The Warsaw Pact was created to

Who built the Berlin Wall?

State of conflict between the Soviet Union and the US after WWII based on political and economic differences

The actual purchasing power of income

The United States use of the atomic bomb and Soviet's subsequent development of the atomic bomb led to

a state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services such as health care

What was the intention of the Marshall Plan?

idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall

Which event symbolized the ending of communism

the manufacture of machines and equipment for factories and mines

building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy.

One factor keeping the US and Soviet Union from direct military conflict was

Gorbachev's plan to reform the Soviet Union by restructuring its economy

a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves

The first satellite in space launched by the Soviets

Immediately after WWII, Eastern European nations became

The Soviet Union responded to the formation of NATO by

countries that are economically and politically dependent on another country

Term coined by Churchill to describe the divide between free and communist Europe