Cold war Review 1

This was US legislation that stated the US would supply aid to any country threatened by communism

• Truman Plan

• Iron Curtain

This was US legislation that provided economic aid to war-torn European counties who promised to avoid communism.

• Marshall Plan

• Warsaw Pact

To prevent nuclear war the USA and USSR built up their arsenals as a _

• deterrent

• detergent

This was the era of political tension between the USA and USSR, over ideological differences.

• Cold War

• Korean War

The USSR used the _ to keep the Western democracies out of Berlin.

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Wall

To stop refugees from fleeing East Berlin Nikita Khrushchev built the _

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Wall

_ was the USA and Western Democracy alliance used to contain the spread of communism.

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

This event was at the height of the Cold War and the closet the USA and USSR ever got to nuclear war.

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

The Warsaw Pact was an alliance between the USSR and its _.

• Satellite States

• China and Korea

The Space Race began after the _ launched the Sputnik into orbit.

• USA

• USSR