FA 10.6 SQ 9: End of the Cold War

The period after WWII of rivalry and tension between the US and the Soviet Union was ___.

• NATO
• WWII
• Cold War
• Russian Revolution

An attempt by the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) in 1962 to place nuclear missiles in Cuba directed toward the United States.

• Iron Curtain

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Airlift

• Arms Race

A massive concrete barrier, dividing democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. Acted as a symbol of the Cold War and Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) restrictions.

• Arms Race

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

A dependent state

• Cold War

• Superpower

• Satellite

• Solidarity

The imaginary line through Europe that divided the democracies of the West from the communist countries of the East.

• Berlin Airlift

• Iron Curtain

• Arms Race

• Berlin Wall

The Cold War policy of limiting the spread of communism.

• Cold War

• Containment

• Solidarity

• Fidel Castro

The policy made by US President Truman in 1947 that made it clear that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in Europe or elsewhere in the world.

• Nikita Krushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Truman Doctrine

Name the two countries where wars were fought to stop the spread of communism?

• China and Japan

• Korea and Vietnam

• India and Thailand

• Cambodia and Myanmar

Easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

• Detente

• Perestroika

• Arms Race

• Blockade

A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and conventional weapons.

• Perestroika

• Arms Race

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain