Conflicts
Containment
Arms Race
International Incidents
Institutions
100
This was the first major military conflict in the 1950s between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100
The Middle Eastern nation that was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979.
What is Afghanistan?
100
This organization of nations joined in common defense of communism in Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact.
200
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.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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
The home of the Suez Crisis, which led to fighting over the canal
What is Egypt?
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 was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists from 1954 to 1975?
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
ICBM means
Inter-continental ballistic missile
300
The location of an Uprising in 1956 against the communist government. It was defeated by the Soviet military.
What is Hungary, or Budapest?
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
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict? Accept: Differences in communism, democracy or capitalism.
400
The Marshall Plan was this type of foreign policy to stop the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
400
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400
This agreement led to detente, or decreasing tensions, by limited nuclear weapons.
SALT, or Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1989 (or 1991)?
500
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists though he never proved anything. This period was known as this:
What is the Red Scare?
500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
The city that experienced a 'Spring' in 1968. Also defeated by Soviets.
What is Prague?
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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