Bingo The Cold War

1. Bingo The Cold War US History Mr. Tran

2. Domino Theory • Warsaw Pact • Ho Chi Minh • Mutually assured destruction • Truman Doctrine • Berlin Airlift • Korean War • McCarthyism • Bay of Pigs Invasion • The Cuban Missile Crisis • NATO • SEATO • U.N. • I.M.F. • GATT • Strategic Defense Initiative • Joseph McCarthy • Vietnam War COPY 25. • Communism • Containment • Socialism • Sphere of influence • Cold War • Geopolitics • Military-industrial Complex • Deterrence • Capitalism • Nuclear Age • Détente • John F. Kennedy

3. Vietnam War • This was the first war the United States ever lost in.

4. Ho Chi Minh • Led the Vietcong of North Vietnam to defeat South Vietnam in the Vietnam War

5. Korean War • This war started the same way it ended.

6. GATT • • It was intended to ease barriers to international trade.

7. Nuclear Age • The time period during the “Cold War” in which many countries were developing nuclear weapons

8. Joseph McCarthy • made unsupported accusations against members of government (suspecting them of being Communist spies)

9. Domino Theory • Espoused by Eisenhower; the belief that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to communism, all would fall

10. Berlin Airlift • In response to the Berlin Blockade by the Soviets, the United States and Great Britain airlifted supplies into West Berlin and kept the Soviets from taking over the entire city.

11. IMF • It was intended to promote international monetary cooperation by allowing money from different countries to be exchanged at fair rates.

12. Capitalism • An economic system based on private ownership of capital

13. John F. Kennedy • Was president and negotiated terms during the Cuban Missile Crisis

14. The Cuban Missile Crisis • After the Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons on Cuba, the U.S. president responded with a naval blockade of Cuba.

15. Truman Doctrine • Said the United States would provide aid to countries that were trying to resist communism.

16. U.N. • . Its mission is to promote peace, improve relations between countries, allow cooperation to solve world problems, and insure human rights.

17. Deterrence • Discouragement or prevention

18. Strategic Defense Initiative • Missile defense system promoted by Reagan

19. Bay of Pigs Invasion • In 1961, President Kennedy approved CIA support for an invasion of Cuba at this place: it was a failure.

20. Mutually Assured Destruction • If one country attacked the other, the other one would be likely to attack back, assuring mutual destruction of both countries.

21. Military-Industrial Complex • The military and the defense industries considered as a combined influence on foreign and economic policy

22. Detente • Period of unfreezing, or cooling down in the Cold War – specifically to nuclear policy.

23. McCarthyism • Act of accusing people of false things by responding to people’s hysteria and paranoia

24. SEATO • Established in 1954 as a military alliance to offer protection to democracies in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. It was intended to prevent the spread of communism through military attacks after French withdrawal from Indochina.

25. Geopolitics • The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation

26. Warsaw Pact • Formed in response to the formation of NATO

27. Cold War • Post World War II struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union

28. NATO • North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Established in 1949 as a military alliance for mutual protection; included ten European countries, Canada, and the United States

29. Sphere of influence • A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities

30. Containment • Policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power

31. Communism • An economic system in which all the means of production are owned by the government

32. Socialism • Economic system in which the government partly owns and controls production and distribution of goods