the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.

• Deterrence

• Encouragement
• Support
• Promotion

using tactics of fear and intimidation as strategies to make the opposing side back down - getting right to edge of war

• Negotiation
• Brinkmanship
• Appeasement
• Deterrence

a failed 1961 attempt by the United States to overthrow Fidel Castro's government in Cuba

• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Operation Mongoose
• Guatemalan Coup
• Cuban Missile Crisis

A doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.

• Truman Doctrine

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Containment

• Perestroika

the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

• kristallnacht

• perestroika

• detente

• glasnost

the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972. Aimed to limit the number of nuclear weapons each nation could possess. 

• START treaty
• SALT I treaty
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• STAR WARS treaty

the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.

• perestroika
• democracy
• authoritarianism
• glasnost

the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system in Soviet Union

• Glasnost

• Economic Isolation

• Liberalism

• Perestroika

What wars were fought during the Cold War as a result of containment and the Domino Theory?

• Korean & Vietnam War

• WWI & WWII

• Civil War & Spanish American War

• Persian Gulf & War on Terror

What is the map associated with?

• The US and British response to the Berlin Wall

• The US and British response to the Berlin Blockade

• The Soviet Union building the Iron Curtain

• The division on Berlin