First Years
Largest Threat to Capitalism
What is communism?
Gave Greece and Turkey 400 million dollars, resources, and troops to help ward off communsim.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The side responsible for beginning the Korean War
What is the north?
The first country to use an atomic weapon
Who is the United States?
Group of Soviet Aligned Countries forming an alliance.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Created to replace the League of Nations to help keep the peace. Contained more power and included the United States.
Gave 13 billion dollars to 16 European Countries.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Communist Country who joined the Korean War and surprised the Americans.
Who is China?
The first country to space
Who is the Soviet Union?
Wall dividing a key city in Germany. Constructed overnight by the Soviets.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The intense fear of communist spies in the United States. Examples - McCarthyism, Blacklisting the Hollywood 10, and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
What is the Red Scare?
Solved the problem of Stalin's Berlin Blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Amphibious battle that helped America gain a temporary advantage in the Korean War.
What is the Battle of Inchon?
The closest our world has ever been to a nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Stalin's attempt to starve out 2.1 million West Berlin residents in an effort to get the U.S. to give up West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Winston Churchill used this term to describe the division between East and West Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Created an alliance between Canada, United States, and 10 Western European Countries
What is NATO?
The controversial American General who suggested using an atomic bomb on China
Who is General McArthur?
Great embarrassment in U.S. Cold War History. Failed attack by Cuban exiles.
The Soviets moved missiles to this newly communist country 90 miles south of Florida?
What is Cuba?
The side of Europe controlled by democracy
What is the West?
In September of 1954, the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed this organization.
What is SEATO? Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
The dividing line between North and South Korea
What is the 38th parrallel?
Name of the American who landed on the moon ending the space race
Who is Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin ?
The Soviets narrowed the arms race with this invention/test in 1953.
What is the Hydrogen Bomb?