Communism
What political system did the Soviets think should be spread worldwide?
Communism
What city was most affected by the Cold War?
Berlin
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were charged with
spying and passing atomic secrets to the Soviets
Era of confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union
Cold War
The purpose of the Manhattan Project was to
develop the atomic bomb
Communist countries of Eastern Europe
Eastern Block (Warsaw Pact) Countries
NATO formed for the purpose of
mutual defense of the Western democracies
What do Alger Hiss, Ethel Rosenberg, and Julius Rosenberg have in common?
They were all Soviet spies
When the United States, Britain, and France merged their zones in Germany, the Soviet Union responded by?
blockading West Berlin
When Harry Truman relieved Douglas MacArthur of command it showed that Truman was what?
Commander-In-Chief
Who was China’s Communist leader who defeated the Chinese Nationalists and forced them to flea to Taiwan?
Mao Zedong
After World War II there were only two “superpowers” left in the world, who were they?
The Soviet Union and United States
Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his witch hunt by
saying that he had a list of Communists employed by the State Department
To prevent Communists from staging revolutions within developing countries, Eisenhower used?
brinkmanship
The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to
help Western Europe recover
George Kennan’s theory that the U.S. should try to keep Communism from spreading and confined to the countries where it already existed.
Containment
The Korean War resulted in?
very few territorial changes
Who was the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) who urged the House Unamerican Activities Committee to hold more hearings on Communist subversion in the federal government to further screen federal employees.
J. Edgar Hoover
The Korean War resulted in
containment but no victory (tie)
At Yalta, the leaders agreed to
divide Germany among the four Allied powers
What do these people have in common: Stalin, Lenin, Gorbachev, and
Khrushchev?
They are all Soviet Leaders
What was it called when the United States and Soviet Union competed to build more and more weapons during the Cold War?
The Arms Race
Popular support for Joseph McCarthy began to fade when
millions watched him bully witnesses in televised hearings investigating the Army
The Korean War pitted the military forces of North Korea and China against
United Nations (U.S.) and South Korea
How did the United States role in world politics change after WWII?
U.S. supported new independent nations and fought against Communism