What does Sputnik start?
Space Race
What does the building of atomic and nuclear bombs start?
Arms Race
What was the US policy to stop the spread of communism?
Containment
What does the Soviet blockade of Berlin cause?
Berlin Airlift
What does the threat of a communist takeover in Turkey and Greece cause President Truman to issue?
Truman Doctrine
What containment policy helped war-torn Europe recover?
Marshall Plan
Group of countries that vowed to protect each other if a communist nation attacked
NATO
Who did the US side with in the Korean War?
South Korea
What is the failed invasion of Cuba called?
Bay of Pigs
What did Kennedy issue in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Blockade or Quarantine
To get the USSR to remove its missiles from Cuba the US had to promise to remove its missiles in _____.
Turkey (Italy)
Who was the communist leader of Cuba?
Fidel Castro
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F Kennedy
Who was president during the Korean War?
Dwight Eisenhower
Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War?
Joseph Stalin
Who was the leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
