Name given to the line of Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union, in a speech by Winston Churchill.
What is the Iron Curtain
100
The organization formed by Western European powers who joined to protect one another both economically and militarily after WWII
What is NATO
100
A policy that was put in place to prevent communism from spreading across the world
What is containment
100
Name of United States general who during the Korean War combatted the President and hoped for an all out invasion of North Korea
Who is Douglas MacArthur
100
This President said that there was a "silent majority" who supported the Vietnam War.
Who is Richard Nixon
200
Meeting during WWII in which Joesph Stalin was made aware of the United States development of the Atomic Bomb
What is Potsdam
200
Name of the first Satellite launched into orbit by the Soviets
What is Sputnik
200
Nickname given in response to a United States senator creating a secret list of communist infiltrators in the United States.
What is Macarthyism
200
Name of the North Vietnamese Massacre in South Vietnam on a national New year's holiday. It resulted in dwindling support for the United States prescence in the War.
What is the Tet Offensive
200
President who was present at the first conference of the "Big 3" during WWII
Who is FDR
300
City that became the epicenter of the Cold War tensions between the USSR and the United States
What is Berlin
300
Name of the pact that joined together Eastern Eurpoean communist countries in order to protect one another
What is the Warsaw Pact
300
A secret mission that resulted in a failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban government
What is the Bay of Pigs
300
The end product of the Korean War that drew a boundry between North and South Korea. It was the same result as before the war occurred.
What is the 39th Parallel
300
President responsible for enacting the Domino Theory and involvement in the Korean War
Who is Eisenhower
400
United States President responsible for the order to drop the Atomic Bomb
Who is Harry Truman
400
Name of the United States program that was a response to the USSR sending the first human ever into outer space
What is the Apollo Program
400
A theory that put forth the idea that if a country was allowed to fall to communism than it might cause a sweeping effect in which others may fall too.
What is the Domino Theory
400
Name of the mission that was the result of an all out aerial bombing attack in Vietnam
What is Operation Rolling Thunder
400
President who was responsible for negotiating a settlement with Kurschev after the Missle Crisis
Who is JFK
500
Name given to the United States economic plan to aid Western European countries
What is the Marshall Plan
500
A doctrine that stated that the United States would "support free people who resisted communism anywhere"
What is the Truman Doctrine
500
A 13 day standoff between the United States and the USSR , in which the USSR had nuclear missles withing striking distance of the U.S. (it's the closest that we've ever come to nuclear war.)
What is Cuban Missle Crisis
500
This gave President LBJ a "blank check" to approach the Vietnam War the way he saw fit.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
500
President who took over for Nixon an had to smooth over the counter culture element that resulted from Vietnam