Cold War 1
Cold War 2
Cold War 3
Cold War 4
Cold War 5
100

This is the term given to the widespread fear of communism in the US after WWII.

What is the (second) Red Scare?

100

The competition between nations regarding the spread of either Capitalism or Communism

What is the Cold War?

100

The country that was trying to contain communism.

What is the U.S.?

100

The communist country that U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.

What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?

100

This man was leader of the Chinese Communists


Mao Zedong

200

Winston Churchill used this phrase to describe how Eastern Europe was divided from Western Europe.

What is the Iron Curtain?

200

The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.

Containment

200

This President favored limited warfare in Korea

Harry S. Truman

200

Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.

What is Berlin?

200

What was the first successful satellite in space?

Sputnik 

300

The line between North Korea and South Korea is called ___________.  It is also the location of the DMZ (demilitarized zone).

What is the 38th parallel?

300

This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.

What is the Berlin Airlift?

300

This was the name given when the USSR cut off all communication and ground transportation to the West side of a the German capital.

What is the Berlin Blockade?

300

This war ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel

What is the Korean War?

300

This General landed at Inchon to launch a counteroffensive against North Korea


Douglas MacArthur

400

This was the term given when the US and the Soviet Union competed to stockpile the largest amount of nuclear weapons

What is the Arms Race?

400

This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.

What is Germany?

400

This Asian country fell to Communism in 1949, and aided North Korea during the Korean War

What is China?

400

Term for the brink of war?

Brinkmanship 

400

the art or practice of pushing a dangerous situation or confrontation to the limit of safety especially to force a desired outcome

Brinksmanship

500

In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created their own international military organization to counter-act what the US and other western nations were doing during the Cold War.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

500

This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western European nations. It is still around today

What is NATO?

500

This man led a witchhunt against suspected communists and ruined many people's careers and reputations. His baseless accusations were exposed and he was humiliated. He died of alcoholism 3 years later.

Who is Joseph McCarthy?

500

Theory that if one nation falls, its neighbors will fall.

What is Domino Theory?

500

this organization  carried out secret operations in other countries during the Cold War

Central Intelligence Agency

600

This plan gave economic assistance to European countries resisting communism after WWII.

What is the Marshall plan?

600

What was the purpose of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?

To investigate and identify Communist threats in the US

600

When Communist troops from the northern part of this country attacked the southern part of this country (which was democratic), the US and UN troops intervened.

What is Korea?

600

Name all three Americans on the spaceship that landed on the moon

Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, Michael Collin

600

The enemy name in Vietnam 

Viet Cong

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