Cold War

Alliance of Western European democratic nations (as well as United States and Canada).

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Axis Powers

• Central Powers

Marshall Plan aid was given to nations to rebuild after World War 2, but only to democratic nations.

• True

• False

Metaphorical separation between Eastern and Western Europe after World War 2.

• Berlin Wall

• 38th Parallel

• Steel Curtain

• Iron Curtain

Forced President Johnson to send U.S soldiers into South Vietnam.

• Tet Offensive

• Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Hamburger Hill

Attempt by the CIA to unseat Castro's Communist government in Cuba.

• Inchon Invasion

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• U-2 Incident

Signaled the "victory" of the United States in the "Space Race".

• Launching of Sputnik

• First Moon landing

• First Space Walk

• First into Space

Led China to be a global economic power.

• Chang Kai-shek

• Mao Zedong

• Deng Xiaoping

• Sun Tzu

Created in response to the launching of Sputnik.

• NASA

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• SALT

Policies by Mikhail Gorbachev to bring reforms to the Soviet Union.

• Blitzkrieg

• Glasnost

• Realpolitik

• Perestroika

President John F. Kennedy responded to the Cuban Missile Crisis with a

• Naval blockade.

• Declaration of war.

• Military strike.