Rearmament
These powerful weapons kept the United States and Soviet Union from fighting a conventional war, and sowed fear across the world.
What are nuclear weapons?
American policy that the United States should provide support for countries or peoples threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine
This system of government has the government control resources and the means of production.
What is communism
This senator from Wisconsin became the face of the second Red Scare in America
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This conflict is the first major war between communist and capitalist interests in the Cold War.
This organization, established in 1947 coordinates the gathering of information on other nations.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
An American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Europe in order to rebuild.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This Cold War alliance included western democracies such as the United States, Great Britain, and France.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
In response to Republican "red baiting," President Harry Truman instituted this for federal employees.
What is the loyalty program?
North Korea looked to be near defeat until this country sent reinforcements across the border.
What is China?
What is the draft?
Cold War Doctrine that states if one nuclear power uses atomic weapons against another, both will be destroyed.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This economic system allows private businesses and individuals to run much of the economy.
What is capitalism?
This Congressional Committee led investigations into suspected communists both in the government and the private sector.
What is the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
By taking action in Korea, this international organization was able to legitimize itself.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This formal policymaking body advises the president on defense and foreign relation.
What is the National Security Council (NSC)?
American policy dictating communist be kept in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
What is Containment?
This Cold War alliance included communist countries such as the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This person was a United States state department employee accused of passing information to the Soviet Union.
Who is Alger Hiss?
The Korean War ended with an armistice in this year.
What is 1953?
This document described the world divided between freedom and slavery, and advised the United States to use as much force as possible to resist communism.
What is National Security Council Paper 68 (NSC 68)?
In response to the infamous Berlin Blockade, the United States did this to get supplies to East Berlin
What is the Berlin Airlift?
In a now famous speech, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that this had fallen over Eastern Europe.
What is an iron curtain?
This husband-and-wife duo were accused and executed for sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union
The Korean War ended with an independent North and South Korea, with these respective government types.
What is communist and democratic?