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  • What was the Truman Doctrine?
    a policy to contain the spread of communism
  • What was the Truman doctrine?
    a policy to contain the spread of communism
  • Why did the US become involved in the Vietnam War?
    US wanted to stop the spread of communism
  • Conflict in the 60s and 70s; the US sent soldiers to South Vietnam to try to prevent communism from taking over the nation
    Vietnam War
  • Why was the Berlin Wall built?
    To keep East Germans from entering West Berlin
  • Tension between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 over nuclear missiles in Cuba
    Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in reference to the division of Europe?
    Winston Churchill
  • Race between the US and Soviet Union to explore outer space during the Cold War
    The Space Race
  • What was the main cause of of the cold war?
    Differences in government and economic beliefs
  • What was the "Iron Curtain"?
    Imaginary line that divided East and Western Europe
  • Who was the Cuban leader that allowed Soviets to place missiles in Cuba?
    Fidel Castro
  • What was the main cause of the cold war between the US and Soviet Union after WWII?
    differences in government and economic beliefs
  • Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin, and head of the Soviet Communist Party during the Cold War
    Nikita Khruschev
  • What was the purpose of NATO?
    to defend member countries from the threat of communism
  • Who first used the term "Iron Curtain" to describe Europe during the Cold War?
    Winston Churchill
  • The US aided West Berlin by flying in food and fuel when Soviet troops cut off the city’s supply
    Berlin Airlift
  • The Cold War was mostly a competition between the US and
    Soviet Union
  • Race to build more and better weapons than the enemy
    Nuclear Arms Race
  • Organization headed by Eleanor Roosevelt, formed to stop the spread of communism
    NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
  • US policy promising to help countries that the Soviet Union tried to turn communist
    Truman Doctrine
  • According to Winston Churchill, what was dividing Europe between the communist East and the democratic West
    an iron curtain
  • The Cold War was a competition between which countries?
    US and Soviet Union
  • Name the two wars that happened during the cold war
    Vietnam war and Korean war
  • What was the Berlin Wall?
    Wall built to keep East Berliners from escaping to W.Berlin
  • An alliance of the Soviet union and its communist satellite nations of Eastern Europe formed in response to NATO
    The Warsaw pact
  • government owns all businesses and land and the people have little choices
    communism
  • Why was the Korean War fought?
    To stop the spread of communism
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