Cold War - Iron Curtain to Cuban Missile Crisis

After being Allies during WWII, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. soon viewed each other with suspicion. Their political differences created a climate of "icy" tension known as the _____.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cold War

• Bay of Pigs

• Truman Doctrine

Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe and the U.S.-dominated Western Europe

(a)  

British politician who predicted an "iron curtain" that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.

• George Kennan

• Harry Truman

• Winston Churchill

• George Marshall

An international military alliance created in 1949 by the West (led by the U.S.) for purposes of defense, especially against the Soviets.

(a)  

This plan proposed massive American economic aid ($$$) to Europe to rebuild the their economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism.

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Proxy Wars

• Iron Curtain

First established in 1947 by our president, the (a)   Doctrine pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism.

Soviet Union and countries of eastern Europe in a military alliance against the West known as the ________ ____.

(a)  

Built to surround West Berlin, the ______ ____ both kept in people trying to escape and was a symbol of tyranny to the free world.

(a)  

Successful effort by the United States and Britain to send by air 2.3 million tons of supplies to the residents of the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin in response to a Soviet blockade.

• Space Race

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Berlin Airlift

Thought up by U.S. diplomat George Kennan, it's the American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

(a)