The Cold War Part 1 - Cap Study

Democratic President from 1963 to 1968 who took office upon the assassination of President Kennedy

Post WWII peacekeeping organization that replaced the League of Nations

Pledge made by President Truman to combat the spread of communism anywhere in the world

Western European military alliance designed to combat communism after WWII.

US led relief program to provide food and medical aid to Berlin residents east of the Iron Curtain

Covert US military plan and failed invasion involving the CIA and Cuban refugees to overthrow Castro in 1961

American paranoia about seeking and finding Communists within the U.S.

Eastern European military alliance designed to combat capitalism after WWII.

Cold War crisis in 1962 between the US and Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missiles installed in Cuba

United States organization established to research rocketry and space exploration program

Man who murdered Kennedy’s alleged assassin

Postwar US foreign policy to keep communism where it currently existed by military, political, and economic methods

NASA space program that was designed to land man on the Moon in the 1960’s

US program of humanitarian aid to developing third world nations of the world

Conflict in which the United States to prevent the spread of communism from North Korea into South Korea

1st Catholic Democratic president from 1960 to 1963 during the height of the Cold War

Country that feared the West, U.S., Germany, Capitalism; wished to create a buffer zone.

American Jewish couple charged, tried, and convicted for giving US atomic production plans to the Soviet Union

Official 1964 version detailing Kennedy assassination; 1 lone gunman

United States and Soviet Union was involved in military, political, and economic confrontation and competition

Country that wished to expand capitalism, rebuild Europe and encourage trade.

US organization designed to gather foreign intelligence and carry out covert operations in other nations

That American astronaut that was the first man to step foot on the Moon in July 1969

The 1961 construction of a physical wall to separate the free and communists sides within the city of Berlin, Germany

Wisconsin Senator that led in Congressional investigation of communist infiltration in the US government

Alleged assassin of President Kennedy

Imaginary boundary between communist nations in Eastern Europe from free nations of Western Europe

First Soviet-made satellite put into orbit around the Earth

The technological competition between the United States and Soviet Union to land a man on = the Moon

President believed in brinkmanship, nuclear weapons, massive retaliation and less conventional means to fight communism

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 - 1964