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Congress overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, Over the next four years, Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery. This aid provided much needed capital and materials that enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy.
What was the Marshall Plan?
100

This is the name for the idea that a group of people are responsible for killing JFK and not a lone assassin

What is a conspiracy theory?

100

a mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America. It was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe

What was The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

100

This country 90 miles away from us had a Communist revolution and we tried to overthrow it

What is Cuba?

100

This President said in 1947 that not one more state in the world should fall to Communism

Who is Truman?  Truman Doctrine

200
Truman asked Congress for a $400 million appropriation specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece. He told Congress: "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures . . .
What was the Truman Doctrine?
200

The strategy that a school film said you should use should an atomic bomb hit near your school

What is Duck and Cover?

200

This was the form of government in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

What is Communism?

200

from 1946 to 1964 almost 77 million babies are born in the United States.

What was the Baby Boom?

200

This man was the first man to walk on the moon

Who was Neil Armstrong?

300

In 1961 this wall was put up to stop East Germans from escaping to Western Europe

What was the Berlin Wall?

300

This is the name of the space agency that would send the first man to the moon

What is NASA?

300

On June 25, 1950, some 75,000 soldiers from the North  poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic to the north and the pro-Western South. This started which war?

What was Korean War?

300

This was the dividing line between North and South Korea

What was the 38th Parallel?

300

American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In 1995, the U.S. government released a series of decoded Soviet cables, code-named VENONA, which confirmed that one of the accused acted as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets

Who was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

400

This Senator headed the House Unamerican Activities Committee

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

400

This was the name of the African American leader who said that the war in Vietnam was stealing funds that could be used for the War on Poverty

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King?

400

This started the Space Race between the US and USSR. The USA was shocked when it was launched by the Soviets

What was Sputnik?

400

This was the failed attempt of the USA to overthrow the Communist government of Cuba

What was the Bay of Pigs

400

This was the name of the Soviet policy that said that the USSR should be open and transparent

What was Glasnost?

500

This was President Nixon's policy to take the USA out of the Vietnam war and leave the fighting to the Vietnamese

What was Vietnamization?

500
This was the President who said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that Wall!"

Who is President Ronald Reagan?

500

After the Soviets put a dog and a man into space, this President announced we would beat them to the moon. His name?

What was John F Kennedy

500

This man was accused to be the sole assassin of Pres. John F Kennedy

Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?

500

This policy of detente, to lessen tension between the USA and the Soviet Union was put forth first by this anti-Communist President

Who was Richard Nixon?

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