The Cold War Vocabulary Review

____________________ - military strategy that involved building up traditional military rather than nuclear weapons so that most conflicts could be handled without resorting to nuclear warfare.

• Flexible response

• Mutual assured destruction

• Preemptive strike

• Deterrence strategy

____________________ - the official division between North and South Korea.

• 38th Parallel

• DMZ

• 49th Parallel

• 42nd Parallel

____________________ - potentially deadly nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union due to the detection of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Blockade

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

____________________ - the war, begun on June 25, 1950, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953.

• Korean War

• World War II

• Vietnam War

• Gulf War

____________________ - U.S. fear of communism fueled in the 1950s by senator Joseph McCarthy and false accusations of government infiltration by communists.

• Red Scare

• Détente

• Containment

• Eisenhower Doctrine

____________________ - a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes.

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Blockade

• Operation Vittles

• Airlift III

____________________ - the idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow like toppling dominoes. This theory was used to justify U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

• Domino Theory

• Containment Policy

• Balance of Power

• Isolationism

____________________ - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union.

• Rosenbergs

• Smiths

• Johnsons

• Williams

____________________ - A term coined during the Cold War to describe the tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one's opposition to retreat.

• Brinkmanship

• Deterrence

• Escalation

• Containment

____________________ - the act of purposely not hiring a person or group for a particular reason.

• Blacklisting

• Discrimination

• Exclusion

• Rejection