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This political and economic system aims to eliminate classes in all aspects of society.
What is Communism?
This form of foreign policy was adopted by the United States and non-communist European states in response to the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
This organization played an important role throughout the Cold War by gathering intelligence from around the world, which allowed sitting U.S. presidents to determine appropriate action.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
This individual was the 33rd President of the United States from 1945-1953.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This was the fear that communists both outside and inside of America were aiming to destroy the country.
What is the Red Scare?
This was the coordinated effort of the U.S. and its allies to supply West Berliners with desperately needed food and supplies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This nuclear arms policy was created by the U.S. and the USSR as they hoped to avoid nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another.
What is the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) policy?
This group of writers, directors, and producers who were investigated for communist ties and ultimately blacklisted from working in blockbuster movies.
What is the Hollywood Ten?
This individual was the 34th President of the United States from 1953-1961.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This Cold War event became iconic after the USSR shot down an American spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
What is the U-2 Spy Plane Incident?
This U.S. program provided aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. The government official who founded this plan of action won a Nobel peace prize. This was also known as the European Recovery Plan.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was an isolationist foreign policy of the U.S. throughout the 1800s and early 1900s where the U.S. would not intervene in European conflicts.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Also known in Russian as the, “Committee for State Security”; this was an intelligence agency and secret police of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is the KGB?
This individual was the communist leader of Cuba during the Cold War.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy.
What is McCarthyism?
This phrase was used during the Cold War to describe the metaphorical barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This policy of U.S. was introduced by a president during the Cold War and believed in intervention within conflicts worldwide, most importantly conflicts relating to the containment of communism. He viewed the United States as, "the worlds police".
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This organization was formed in 1949; created by the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and other Western European nations to provide security against the threats of the Soviet Union.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This individual established China as a communist country after leading a successful revolution in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This was detonated by the Soviet Union on October 30, 1961 and is the largest nuclear device ever detonated and the most powerful man-made explosion in history.
What is Tsar Bomba?
This was known as the location where Winston Churchill coined the phrase, "the Iron Curtain"?
President Truman invited him to a university from his home state to deliver a speech known as, "The Sinews of Peace".
What is Westminster College? (Fulton, Missouri)
This foreign policy during the Cold War aimed for the U.S. to use force to help any Middle Eastern nation that was threatened by communism.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
This U.S. organization investigated alleged disloyalty and rebel activities of citizens, government employees, and organizations suspected of having Communist ties during the Cold War.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
This individual emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
What is the name of the tiny satellite launched by the USSR into Earth's orbit on October 4th, 1957?
What is Sputnik 1?