Conflicts
Containment
Arms Race
Space Race
Institutions
100
What term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which began at the end of World War II?
Cold war
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the USA?
100
What was the dividing line between Communist Eastern Europe and the democratic Western Europe
What is Iron Curtain
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
200
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
.October 16-28, 1962 were 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.
200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is USSR
200
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
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
What is the Vietnam War?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Korea from communism.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
This was used to get food and supplies to West Berlin when Stalin cut off all transportation lines to the city.
What is Berlin Airlift
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
The most important part of the Yalta Conference was the decision to
Divide Germany into different occupation zones
400
What is Containment?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
400
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
400
Attacks on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950's
McCarthyism
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
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1947, 1991
500
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. In the end he was censored by the Senate. What was this called?
what is red scare
500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
Was accused of spying for the Soviet Union, but was only found guilty of perjury
Alger Hiss
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 Central Intelligence Agency CIA?
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