Origins & Conflicts
Containment
Arms Race
Korean War
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100
The Cold War started when U.S.S.R. refused to allow free and open elections in what country?
What is Poland.
100
Name the first U.S. President to utilize a containment policy?
Who is Harry Truman.
100
Name the first nation to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile?
Who is the U.S.S.R.
100
What nation started the Korean War?
What is North Korea.
100
The Interstate and Highway Defense Systems Act was passed during the presidency of whom?
Who is Eisenhower.
200
Who is credited with making the "Iron Curtain" speech?
Who is Winston Churchill.  
200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
What was the dividing line between North and South Korea before and after the Korean War?
What is the 38th parallel.
200
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300
At the start of the Berlin crisis, Berlin was located in what part of Germany?
What is East Germany.
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300

I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.

What are nuclear weapons.
300
At the start of the war, U.S. troops were surrounded on the south east corner of S. Korea at what perimeter?
What is Pusan?
300
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
Truman's response to the Berlin crisis dropped millions of tons of supplies into the city.  This effort was referred to as the what?
What is the Berlin Airlift or Operation Vittles.
400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400
Name the man made satellite of the Soviet Union that became the first to orbit the Earth?
What is Sputnik.
400
During the fall of 1951, who made the promise that the war was over and American troops would be home by Christmas?
Who was MacArthur.
400
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
What is NASA?
500

October 16-28, 1962 arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
500
Senator Joseph McCarthy's hysteria of communism in the government came to an end when he claimed there were communists in what branch of government?
What is the Army.
500

During the Korean War, General MacArthur proposed using an atomic bomb on what country.

What was China.
500
The issue of bringing the war to an in was complicated because of what issue?
What is how to exchange POW's.
500
After the French lost Indochina it was divided along what parallel?
What is the 17th parallel.
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