policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders
What is containment?
100
line dividing North and South Korea
What is the 38th parallel?
100
John Dulles announced this policy whereby the US would respond to communist threats to its allies by threatening to use overwhelming force, even nuclear weapons
What is massive retaliation?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
CIA helped overthrow governments in these two countries
What are Iran and Guatemala?
200
imaginary line separating Eastern and Western Europe
What is the iron curtain?
200
General of the United Nations forces
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
policy in which the US and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another
What is mutually assured destruction?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
Leader that succeeded Stalin in the Soviet Union.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
300
$13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe for food, fuel, factories, and to jump-start the economy
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
A surprise attack that pushed North Koreans behind the 38th parallel occurred at this port city
What is Inchon?
300
When the U.S. and Soviets have other countries fight the Cold War for them
What is a proxy war?
300
NASA Mission that landed on the Moon in 1969
What is Apollo 11?
400
A military alliance between Western European and North American nations to counter Soviet expansion.
What is NATO?
400
defensive alliance aimed at preventing the spread of communism in Asia
What is SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)?
400
Presiden that focused on stockpiling nuclear weapons and building planes, missiles, and submarines needed to deliver them
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
400
President of the United States who directed that the US put a man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400
500
American diplomat that presented the policy of containment in his work, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct."
Who is George F. Kennan?
500
North Korean war ended in a cease-fire without a victorious nation
What is a stalemate?
500
Congress created NASA in response to this particular event in the Soviet Union
What is Sputnik 1?
500
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.