The Initial Freeze
Nukes
Foreign Policy
I Spy
Misc.
100
He was the leader of the USSR at the end of WWII
Who is Stalin
100
The baseball bat theory that Kelly talked about is more often referred to as this abbreviation.
What is MAD
100
He is the leader of the Chinese communists.
Who is Mao Zedong
100
The American spy agency
What is the CIA
100
This is the internationl organization formed to oppose the Warsaw Pact
What is NATO
200
To be pushing your enemy just to the point of war, but never going to war.
What is brinksmanship
200
Shelters were built to protect people from this material falls that from the sky after a nuclear blast
What is fallout
200
This island is home to the nationalist Chinese government.
What is Taiwan (or Formosa)
200
The Soviet spy agency
What is the KGB
200
Truman worked to limit the increase of prices of goods--this is the economic term that refers to increase in prices
What is inflation
300
The conference where Truman acted hard-line because he knew he had a secret weapon
What is Potsdam conference?
300
The push to build bigger and better nukes led us to develop rockets and this federal agency.
What is NASA
300
This foreign policy theory states that if one country falls to Communism, its neighboring countries will follow.
What is the domino theory.
300
McCarthy led this committee of Congress in rooting out supposed Communists, but led to no convictions
What is HUAC
300
Labor rights were greatly limited by this bill
What is the Taft-Hartley Act
400
This fell on Eastern Europe, according to Churchill
What is an Iron Curtain
400
SAC kept planes in the air over the US for this purpose
What is to nuke the USSR
400
This city was saved from starvation after the USSR blocked all incoming and outgoing traffic.
What is Berlin
400
Alger Hiss' guilt was famously found in this garden crop.
What is a pumpkin
400
This southern group broke off from the Democrats in 1948 in opposition to the integration of the military
What are Dixiecrats
500
The plan to rebuild Germany and Europe, and buy some friends in the process.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
This element is used in the largest, most destructive kind of nuclear weapon.
What is hydrogen.
500
This country was the site of the first major CIA intervention.
What is Iran
500
This means being blocked from employment, and was a tactic used by anti-communist activists
What is blacklisting
500
Ike delegated many decisions, ergo his presidency is often called this.
What is hidden-hand presidency
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