Unit 8 Cold War Review

Fought in the early 1950s as the first armed struggle of the cold war

Relaxation of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union under President Nixon

Soviet led alliance of Eastern Europena countries. It was meant to be the USSRs answer to NATO

The Vietcong was a ________________ of South Vietnamese communists.

Soviet plan in the 1980s to allow more "openness" such as freedom of religion and speech

Choose all the events that occurred during the Cold War

Program in the 1980s to allow some private enterprise and profit making in the Russian economy

Where is Korea divided?

Massive dropping of food and supplies to keep West Berlin afloat

Where Truman and Stalin met fo the first time to determine the fate of post war Germany

What couple was arrested and killed for giving American secrets to the Soviets?

The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik, prompted Khrushchev to say...

This man was censured by the Senate in the 1950's for his witch hunt of communists in the gov.

The Berlin wall was built by which Soviet Premier

The Bay of Pigs operation was ordered by President....

The U.S. attempt at aiding Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of Communism.

American sponsored program to aid Eurpoean countries economically after WW2

This Vietnam battle caught America off guard, it was a political defeat but a military win.

What chemical was used in Vietnam to kill vegetation and force the VC out into the open?

Created after WWII to promote peace and humanitarian aid for the countries of the world

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave war powers to...

Communist leader of China. He led the revolutio to turn China communist after WW2

Wanted to unite all of Vietnam as a single Communist nation

An attack on one member nation is the quivalent to an attack on all member nations

Phase coined by Winston Churchill referring to the divide between Eastern and Western Europe

In the Space Race, the Soviets beat America to____ but the USA beat the USSR to _____.

In the entire history of the Cold War, the closest the USA and the USSR ever got to WW3 was..

Americas Cold War policy to stop the spread of communism

The U.S. was successful in containing Communism in Vietnam.

The Flexible response policy was which president's Cold War approach

The Peace Corps...

The _____Theory proposed that if Vietnam fell to the communists then all of SE Asia would fall

The original goal of the CIA was to.......

CIA operations are...

Which two organizations were targeted the most during the McCarthy era?

Where was Vietnam divided at the Geneva Accords?

The U-2 incident deepened tension between the USA and the USSR. This was created because

Confrontation and competition between the USA and the Soviet Union from 1946-1991

Fidel Castro brought panic to America by leading a communist revolution in which country

The U.S. was successful in containing communism in Korea?

Joseph McCarthy said he had a list of Communist working in which government department?