The Cold War 2025

The destruction of the Berlin Wall & reunification of Germany in 1990 symbolizes the end of the Cold war

The imaginary boundary separating communist nations of Eastern Europe from democratic nations of Western Europe.

When the big three met to negotiate the end of WWII.

The killing fields were in which Asian country?

Openness

Leader of South Korea

US spy plane shot down by the Soviets while doing surveillance

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression

The purpose of the Truman Doctrine & Marshall plan was to

Soviet Union responded to challenges to its control by

The 1956 invasion of Hungary & 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia was to keep communist gov't in eastern Europe

The idea that no atomic bombs have been dropped since 1945 is based on the fear of

An imaginary line that divided a country. Usually a “safe zone” but could NOT be crossed.

The US and Soviet Union competing to gain access to space

The USSR established satellite nations to expand its political power

A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 10 Western European nations, the US and Canada

The leader of South Vietnam

Communist Leader of Cuba

The Line that divides North and South Korea

 Started as barbed wire, later became concrete. Surrounded West Berlin & stood from 1961 until 1989.

The US was involved in SE Asia to stop the spread of Communism

Created to help people and goods flow and move more easily throughout Europe.

US policy at the end of WWII to help Turkey and Greece rebuild in the late 1940's

Cuban Refugess trained to invade Cuba and assassinate Castro

The First Satellite to be launched into space by any country

The leader of the Solidarity Party in Poland who helped to end Communism in Poland

The leader of North Korea

The line that divides North Vietnam and South Vietnam

the underlying causes of the cold war were economic & political differences between the US & USSR

Division of Germany & Korea following WWII led to

Changes in the political borders of Eastern Europe during the 1990s were a result of the

NATO, the Cuban Missile crisis & the Korean War were examples of attempts to prevent the spread of communist power

After WWII, the Soviet Union established satellites in Eastern Europe primarily to

Communist governments were in Eastern Europe after WWII b/c the USSR pressured them to install those governments

The President of the US who had a standoff with Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Mikhail Gorbachev trending toward private ownership of business represented a move away from

Non-Communist half of Vietnam

Aid given to Berlin by the US and other countries to help sustain them during the blockade

During the 1960's & 1970's, the primary reason for United States involvement in Southeast Asia was to'

Restructuring

Created after WWII to diplomatically solve problems but also have a police force to enforce decisions

In the 1950s what was the status of most countries of eastern europe

Truman Doctrine & NATO were US responses to

The main reason the UN sent troops to Korea in 1950 was

Communist half of Korea

The belief that if one country fell to communism, then others would fall too

Leader of North Vietnam

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT); a series of negotiations between the US & the USSR to curb the nuclear arms race

Russian leader responsible for Glasnost, Perestroika and ultimately the collapse of the Soviet Union

Communist guerillas that, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese gov't in the Vietnam War

a catastrophic nuclear accident in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, resulted in a massive release of radioactive materials

The expansion of communism into Eastern Europe was a direct result of

Political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that attempted to reform the Communist regime was the

The buildup of military power and weaponry during the Cold War

Non-Communist half of Korea

Communist half of Vietnam

A US program of economic aid to ANY European country to help them rebuild

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and 7 Eastern European countries

a formally independent country that is influenced by another, nation, politically, economically, & militarily is a

Containment

Communist leader of Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis

The State of diplomatic hostility between the US and the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII

Khrushchev's attempt to put missilies in Cuba that led to a 13-day standoff with JFK

The lessening of tensions