Vocabulary
Leaders
Events
Treaties/Organizations
Misc.
100
Nations installed and controlled by the Soviet Union
What are satellite nations?
100
He is the president of the United States after World War II
Who is Harry Truman?
100
Soviets blockade Western Germany, this is the United States answer to get supplies to the citizens
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
A promise by the United State that it will defend the Middle East from Communism
What is Eisenhower Doctrine?
100
He become president after Truman
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
200
The United States policy on blocking Communism from spreading
What is containment?
200
The first dictator of the Soviet Union
Who is Josef Stalin?
200
The state of hostility short of military confrontation from the end of World War II, until 1991
What is the Cold War?
200
A committee formed to seek out officials in government that have been disloyal to the US
What is HUAC?
200
This country took control of the Suez Canal from the British
Who is Egypt
300
A weapon 67 times more powerful than the atom bomb
What is the H-Bomb?
300
He coins the term meaning "to make unwarranted claims against suspected Communists
Who is Joesph McCarthy
300
Soviets shoot down a secret US spy plane that was trying to take high resolution pictures
What is the U2 incident
300
An organisation formed to protect Northern Europe with military force
What is NATO?
300
this party took control of the Government after the Korean war, and were anti communists
What is the Republicans
400
Name of the First Soviet Satellite launched into space, proving the Soviets could launch anywhere on Earth
What is Sputnik?
400
He was the leader of the UN and US troops during the Korean War
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
400
The conflict between North and South Korea, that ended in a stallmate
What is the Korean War?
400
Organisation formed by Soviet Union to protect Eastern Europe from Western aggression
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
The name that Winston Churchill gives to the separation in Europe of Communism and Democracy
What is the Iron Curtain
500
This imaginary line that separates North and South Korea.
What is the 38TH Parallel?
500
He is the leader of the Communists in China, and eventually, their dicator
Who is Mao Zedong?
500
The trial of a married couple charged with giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets
What is the Rosenberg trial?
500
Organisation formed to spy on other nations and overthrow governments unfriendly to the US
What is the CIA
500
vocabulary term meaning keeping peace by threatening nuclear war
What is brinkmanship?
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