Cold War

5. The name given to the physical and political division between communist countries and democratic countries during the Cold War. This name represented the idea that communist countries were isolated from democratic countries.
6. A dispute during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had built missile sites in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy set up a naval blockade of the island until Soviet leader Nikita Khruschchev ordered the missiles to be removed.
7. The battle of international influence that arose between communist and democratic nations following the end of World War 2.
8. An alliance of Western democratic nations formed after World War 2 to defend themselves against communist aggression.

1. The U.S. senator who believed that some other congressmen and senators were secretly communist. He led investigations of his peers, as well as many military officials and civilians during the early 1950’s.
2. The military operation led by the United States after World War 2. The residents of West Berlin, Germany were blockaded by the Soviet Union. Led by the United States, Western nations delivered food and supplies to them by airplane.
3. Conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces that began in Vietnam. The United States was heavily involved in the war. In 1973, the United States pulled its forces from the Southeast Asian country. Afterward, the nation became united under a communist government.
4. A conflict between communist North Korea hoping to unify the country under a Communist government and democratic South Korea. North Korea was allied with the Chinese, and South Korea was allied with UN forces led by the United States.
7. The political idea that all property should be publicly owned and managed by a central government.