Cold War 1
Cold War 2
Cold War 3
Cold War 4
Cold War 5
100
At this conference after WWII, the three big allied leaders made decisions about the future of Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
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 the 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
U.S. Loans and grants that totaled $13 billion and given to some European countries for economic recovery after WW II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
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 was 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
The weapon far more powerful than the atomic bomb that was first tested in the Pacific in 1952.
What was the hydrogen bomb?
300
This war ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel in 1953.
What is the Korean War?
300
This General landed at Inchon to launch a counteroffensive against North Korea. He was later fired by Truman, for publicly criticizing him.
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 divided into 4 zones which were occupied by allied countries. It 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
The term for being willing to go to the verge "edge" of war to oppose communism.
Brinkmanship
400
This term became known as, "someone who would make false accusations about being communists, without proof."
What is McCarthyism?
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 witch hunt 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
The name of the drill that American school children practiced in case of nuclear attack in the 1940s and 50s.
What was the "duck and cover" drill?
500
This organization carried out secret operations in other countries during the Cold War, like taking out leaders who were believed to be communists.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
600
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries, like Turkey and Greece, who were resisting communism after WWII.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
600
What was the organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts?
What was the United Nations.
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
This term refers to the fear of communism in the U.S.
What is the Red Scare?
600
This man won the presidential election of 1952, and replaced Truman as president.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?