VUS.15 Review

3. The Soviet Union’s economic system that the U.S. was afraid would spread to other parts of the world.
8. During the Cold War the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed with each other through an arms race, the space race and _____ ______.
9. A crisis began when these were placed in Cuba.
11. Truman’s policy of stopping the spread of communism to other parts of the world.
12. The name of the theory that said if one country fell to communism, more countries would follow.
13. The economic system of the United States that values private industry and maximizing profit.
14. The U.S. successfully stopped the spread of communism here.

1. The _______ Doctrine was the guiding principle of American Cold War foreign policy.
2. U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
4. led a communist revolution in Cuba.
5. The United States tried to have a positive relationship with this communist country during the 1970s.
6. The U.S. entered into an unsuccessful 20-year war trying to stop the spread of communism here.
7. Americans who were poor, undereducated and black served in the Vietnam War in higher numbers because of this.
10. Fear of ______________ attacks led families to build bomb shelters and students to learn “duck and cover” drills at school.
11. This war between the United States and the Soviet Union started at the end of World War 2.