Cold War

What event ushered in the nuclear arms race?

• U.S. successfully testing an atomic weapon

• U.S. use of atomic weapons to end WWII

• Soviet Union successfully tests an atomic weapon 

• Soviet Union testing the Tsar Bomb

The Eastern bloc of Europe is alliend as the

• N.A.T.O

• Warsaw Pact

• S.A.L.T.

• Glasnost 

This is a major difference between N.A.T.O and the Warsaw Pact

• N.A.T.O. members were forced to join

• Warsaw Pact members were allowed to join independently 

• N.A.T.O. is weak and ineffective 

• Warsaw Pact members were told they would be part of the Pact

This event occurring in 1948 was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The Berlin Blockade

• The Hungarian Revolution

• The Soviet Afghan War

A competition for supremacy in weapons and technology

• Cold War

• Nuclear War

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Arms Race

This is the first proxy war of the Cold War

• Soviet Afghan War

• Hungarian Revolution 

• Korean War

• Vietnam War 

The U.S. pledge to support anti-communist was known as

• Diplomacy

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

The failure of this invasion led Cuba to seek help from the Soviet Union

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• D-Day 

• Bay of Pigs

• Insurgencies

The rebels who fought against the Soviet Union during the Soviet Afghan War

• Mujahideen

• Taliban

• Al Qaeda 

• Hezbollah

This country covertly supported the Afghan people by providing weapons, military training, and finally funding

• Turkey

• United Stated

• Pakistan

• England