1940s
He was president when the Cold War began.
Who was Truman?
He became famous and then infamous for falsely accusing Americans of being communists or communist sympathizers.
Who was Sen. Joe McCarthy?
America tries to overthrow Castro and fails miserably with this ill-advised plan that Kennedy was sold on.
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The Paris Accords ended this.
What was the war in Vietnam?
What is " . . . tear down this wall!"
containing communism best defines this Cold War Policy
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Containment worked as the Korean peninsula remained split between communist and non-communist at this famous line.
What is the 38th parallel?
This gave President Johnson a blank check as far as sending troops into Vietnam.
Nixon's Secretary of State was the brainchild of Detente?
Who was Henry Kissinger>
According to Reagan, who was the "Evil Empire?"
What was the Soviet Union of the USSR?
To protect Western Europe from communist aggression America created it's first ever peacetime military alliance.
What is NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This military policy caused schools to hold "duck and cover" drills and Americans to build fallout shelters in their backyards.
What was massive retaliation?
This was built to keep Eastern Europeans from getting their freedom. It became the symbol of the Cold War.
What was the Berlin Wall?
Nixon visited these two communist nations thanks to his detente foreign policy.
What were the USSR and China?
The Cold War came to an end with this meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and George HW Bush.
What was the Malta Summit?
$15 billion in financial aid to make sure Western Europeans weren't tempted by the empty promises of communism.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This caused America to pour millions into public schools and led to the creation of NASA.
What was the successful launch of the first satellite - Sputnik?
To end poverty in America and prove that capitalism wasn't flawed, President Johnson put this domestic policy in place
What was the Great Society or War on Poverty?
Carter boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics after the USSR invaded this country.
What was Afghanistan?
Knowing his Soviet economy was in a tailspin, Gorbachev instituted this economic reform that put some capitalism into the communist economy.
What was perestroika?
Europe and Germany were split in two and so was this city when WW II ended.
What was Berlin?
He became the communist leader of Cuba,
Who was Fidel Castro?
The closest the world came to WW III as Kennedy imposed a quarantine.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Although Nixon visited this nation, it was Carter who officially recognized it.
What was China, or the People's Republic of China?
The INF Treaty actually reduced the number of these for both the USA and the USSR.
What were nuclear missiles?