SOL 12 Cold War Vocabulary

Failed military invasion of Cuba by exiled Cubans 

• McCarthyism

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Hot War

A U.S. Senator that made accusations of many Americans as being communists

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Truman Doctrine

• McCarthyism

A reduction of arms between the Soviet Union and the U.S. agreed to in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

• Detente

• START

• SALT

• SDI

Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense

• The Pentagon

• The White House

• Ft. Monroe

• Langley AFB

The break in to the Democratic National Headquarters located in the Watergate Office Complex and President Nixon’s administration attempts to cover up its involvement

• SDI

• Hot War

• Watergate

• Cuban Missile Crisis

The policy of withdrawing American troops and replacing them with South Vietnamese forces while supplying aid to South Vietnam

• Domino Theory

• Vietnamization

• Hot War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Divided

• Bay of Pigs

• SDI

• Hot War

• Partitioned

The policy of withdrawing American troops and replacing them with South Vietnamese forces while supplying aid to South Vietnam

• Vietnamization

• Hot War

• Bay of Pigs

• Cold War

The easing of hostility between two countries

• SALT

• Detente

• Bay of Pigs

• Cold War

A military, defensive alliance to prevent Soviet aggression in Western Europe

• Warsaw Pact

• Detente

• NATO

• HOT WAR