People
vocabulary
Cold War Basics
Acts and Alliances
Misc.
100
He is best known for telling that he had the names of many Soviet Spies.
Who is Senator Joe MacCarthy
100
This is the term for the competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the cold war?
100
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
100
Under this Doctrine, the United States pledged to help nations threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
When the Soviet Union blocked Berlin in 1948, what was ordered by President Truman to bring them aide?
What is the Berlin Airlift
200
Vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt who became president upon Roosevelt’s death in April 1945 and successfully carried out the remainder of World War II.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
200
Nations dominated by the Soviet Union
What are satellite nations
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
This was an alliance centered around the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is Warsaw Pact
200
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 United Nations?
300
He developed the plan that committed over $10 billion to rebuilding Western Europe after World War II.
Who is George C. Marshall?
300
This focused on national and foreign communists influencing the federal government.
What is the Red Scare?
300
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
300
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 Nato?
300
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?
400
United States President who represented the United States at the Yalta Conference.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
400
This is an imaginary line that Churchill had said descended upon Europe.
What is the iron curtain
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This was the married couple who were wrongfully convicted of being spies and giving secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
500
Dictator of the Soviet Union
Who is Joseph Stalin?
500
The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty of accusing a person of subversive activities without sufficient evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
500
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
500
February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
What is the Yalta Conference?
500
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
What is the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
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