Cold War Review

The goal of the Truman Doctrine was to

*Cold War tension bled through to sports. The 1980 Winter Olympics featured the _____________

In 1962, the U.S. discovered that the Soviets had long-range missiles set up in

Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev introduced policies of glasnost & perestroika, which mean 

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched a ___________ called Sputnik.

During the Cold War, NATO was an alliance of _________________ countries.

The man who first used the term "Iron Curtain" was

*Approximately how many U.S. soldiers died or went missing in the Vietnam War?

The League of Nations was replaced by what peace-keeping group after World War II?

During the Cold War, the communist alliance was called the ______________.

Choose the fact that is NOT true about the Vietnam War.

Besides rebuilding, the goal of the Marshall Plan was to

In the Korean War, the United Nations forces

The Marshall Plan helped rebuild Europe after

The event that led directly to the Berlin Airlift was the

Detente was a policy of 

After World War II, the Soviet occupation zone in Germany ____________.

Which country was NOT communist during the Cold War?

*Who said, "One small step for man.  One giant leap for mankind."? (July 20, 1969)

The Domino Theory was the idea that if one country __________, others around it would too.

Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader in which part of Vietnam?

As a result of the launch of Sputnik, U.S. students had to:

Which event marked the end of the Cold War?

______'s communist forces beat the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek in China's Civil War.

In Europe, communist countries were east of an invisible division called the _________.

In the Vietnam War, the U.S.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 led to all of following, EXCEPT

*As seen in Forrest Gump, the U.S. used _______ to "break the ice" with China in the 1970s.

The era known as the "Cold War" started after