Cold War Beginnings Review

3. Name of the Soviet leader who ordered nuclear missiles to be placed in Cuba.
4. The Korean War started with what nation's invasion into South Korea?
6. The name of the policy that relied on the idea that the U.S. and Soviets would not go to war with each other because each country had so many nuclear weapons they could wipe each other out.
9. Countries of Eastern Europe that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
13. In order to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany, the Soviets installed this.
14. Name of the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviets in 1957.
16. The name of the U.S. Senator who accused many innocent people of being communist.
19. European Recovery Program which sent $13 billion to rebuild war-torn Europe.
20. JFK's closest advisor and attorney general while serving as President.
22. Some critics say that Nixon lost the 1960 election to JFK due to his poor performances in these events.
24. Defensive military alliance that includes the US, Canada, and Western Europe.
25. Person who led the communist revolution in Cuba that eventually led to the failed U.S. backed Bay of Pigs Invasion.
26. In 1949, the Cold war was kickstarted with China falling to this ideology.

1. Once a truce was declared, ending the Korean War, this was the dividing line between North and South Korea.
2. Event that transpired in 1962 that brought the world to the brink of Nuclear War.
5. Name of JFK's social program that emphasized things like education, welfare, and health care.
7. JFK took this type of response on the Military Policy to allow the US to boost conventional military forces and not rely on a nuclear arsenal.
8. The name of the Congressional investigation whose goal was to find communist supporters in America.
10. One of the first major conflicts of the Cold war that started in 1950.
11. General ______ who was fired by President Truman for insubordination during the Korean War.
12. Policy that provided U.S. financial and military assistance that established the idea that the U.S. would support free peoples around the world.
15. Post-WWII struggle between the Soviets and the Americans, between communism and democracy.
17. This is how supplies were provided to people in the East German capital when the Soviets cut off western access.
18. Soviets agreed to pull their missiles out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to pull their missiles out of what country?
21. Name of President Kennedy's program to send volunteers to the poorest areas of the world and provide aid and relief.
23. Cold War event that saw the Soviets and the US compete to put a man on the moon.