WH Vocabulary 19

What was the competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build more powerful weapons called?

• Proxy War

• Détente

• Arms Race

• Glasnost

What term refers to the competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to explore space?

• Red Scare

• Brinkmanship

• Space Race

• Nuclear Proliferation

What does the term détente refer to in Cold War history?

• Escalation of nuclear arms

• Policy of threatening war

• Easing of tensions between superpowers

• Invasion of Eastern Europe

What is the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the edge of disaster called?

• Brinkmanship

• Perestroika

• Superpower

• Berlin Airlift

What is a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved?

• Cold War
• Proxy War

• Arms Race

• McCarthyism

What was the fear of communist influence in the U.S. during the Cold War known as?

• Perestroika

• Red Scare

• Glasnost

• Space Race

What term is used for the anti-communist witch hunts led by a U.S. senator in the 1950s?

• Détente

• Glasnost

• McCarthyism

• Proxy War

What war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea?

• Vietnam War

• Cold War

• Korean War

• World War II

What conflict saw the U.S. fighting to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia?

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Berlin Crisis

• SALT

What Cold War event involved the U.S. and British planes flying supplies into West Berlin?

• Space Race

• Berlin Airlift

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Détente