Matching Pairs Cold War EventsOnline version A way to learn and study the events of the Cold War. Good Luck! by Katie Moore 1 Yalta Conference 2 Fall of the Soviet Union 3 Cuban Missile Crisis 4 Vietnam War 5 NATO 6 Sputnik 7 Bay of Pigs 8 Berlin Wall 9 Afghanistan 10 Soviet Block 11 Berlin Airlift 12 Chinese Revolution 13 Arms Race 14 Berlin Blockade 15 Warsaw Pact 16 Iron Curtain 17 Struggle over Germany 18 Potsdam Conference 19 Marshall Plan 20 Hungarian Revolution 21 Chinese Civil War 22 Truman Doctrine 23 Korean War The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries. The struggle created by the split of Germany into 4 zones. The soviet union's weakening economy along with great discrepancies between worker's wages and the privileges their leaders enjoyed, led the breakup of the soviet union and became Communism. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. The people of Hungary start a revolution to overthrow Communist government. The US does nothing. Khrushev sends soviet troops to suppress the revolution. The Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that installed communist regimes after WWII and were dominated by the Soviet Union. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war. A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world. A cultural revolution for equal rights and communist ideals. treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania US aided the South (non-communist); led to sizeable, passionate, and sometimes violent protests, especially as the war went on. The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift. A attempt to stop democratic rebels in Afghanistan by the Soviets. First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race. Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons. War between communist Mao Zse Tong and nationalist Chaing-Kai Shek. The communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan. An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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