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During the Soviet blockade of West Berlin a US air force pilot Gail
Halvorsen delivered candy to the children of west Berlin to cheer them up by dropping them from an airplane with parachutes.
This earned him the nickname Chocolate Pilot |
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| jet fighter designed by the Soviets |
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| jet fighter designed by the US |
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| Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta (Black Sea resort in the Soviet Union) Discussed issues relating to the post war world |
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| Soviet made barrier that split Europe into non-Communist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. |
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| Leader of Yugoslavia who put nationalism over communism so he developed his own national policies. This angered Stalin so he expelled Yugoslavia from the International Communist Movement. |
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| nations under the control of the Soviet Union. |
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| State department expert on the Soviet Union. Presented the idea for the new foreign policy to counter any expansionist threat from the Soviet Union |
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| Telegram sent by Kennan to outline Soviet beliefs and practices and propose the policy of containment |
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| US policy designed to halt the spread of Communism |
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Plan by Sec'y of State George C. Marshall. purpose was "to restore the confidence of European people in the economic future of their own countries."
Determine European's economic needs and how the US could help. |
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| "Vigilant contaiment of Russian expansive tendencies" |
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| Said by Kennan of what he thought the US should do in response to the Soviets agression. |
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| Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Economic organisation comprising the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world. |
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| The Soviet Union blocked Western rail and road access to West Berlin from June 24 1948 - May 11 1949 |
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| Plan made by the Western allies to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin during the Berlin Blockade |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization: military alliance. Memebers promise to fight for any other members if they get attacked by an external party. Members: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, UK, Netherlands, US, Protugal, Italy, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Iceland |
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| Pact signed by the Soviet Union and its western allies in response to NATO. |
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| Competition betwee US and Russia, to strengthen their armed forces and weapons system. |
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| Long range rockets known asInterecontinental ballistic missiles. Deveoloped by US and Russia. |
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| : Khrushev served as Communist party sec'y under Stalin, became leader of USSR after Stalin died. |
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| Seperated East Berlin from West Berlin |
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| President of the United States during the Cold War |
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| Secretly planned invasion by the US to try to overthrow Fidel Castro in April 1961. The plan failed |
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US had missles in Turkey aimed at USSR. Khruschev secretly installed nuclear missles in Cuba aimed at Fl.
Wanted Kennedy to promise not to hurt Cuba's communist gov. Came close to nuclear conflict. |
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