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This event occurring in 1948 was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The Berlin Blockade

• The Hungarian Revolution

• The Soviet Afghan War

A competition for supremacy in weapons and technology

• Cold War

• Nuclear War

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Arms Race

The U.S. pledge to support anti-communist was known as

• Diplomacy

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

The failure of this invasion led Cuba to seek help from the Soviet Union

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• D-Day 

• Bay of Pigs

• Insurgencies

The rebels who fought against the Soviet Union during the Soviet Afghan War

• Mujahideen

• Taliban

• Al Qaeda 

• Hezbollah

This major event happened between the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

• Japan surrendered

• U.S. uses an atomic weapon

• Germany Surrendered 

• Russian invasion of Japan

This was a plan to strengthen democratic governments by providing food and economic assistance to war-ravaged European countries to help them rebuild after the war

• The Marshall Plan

• The Truman Plan

• N.A.T.O Plan

• Warsaw Plan

 A country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country

•  Communist state

• Sphere of Influence

• Extraterritoriality

• Satellite state 

A tense 13 day standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union concerning the deployment of nuclear capable weapons 

• Bay of Pigs

• D-Day

• Battle of the Bulge 

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Which Cold War alliance was created by Western Europe and the United States?

• NATO

• Non-alignment Movement

• Warsaw Pact

• Potsdam Conference