Origins
The Cold War is a philosophical battle between these two ideologies
What are communism and capitalism?
This is the overarching policy for the entire Cold War
What is Containment?
The side the USA supported in this conflict
What is South Korea?
The Soviet response to the creation of NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What was a common method used by the state to maintain loyalty among citizens?
Encouraging family members and neighbors to report 'anti-state' behavior.
Helicopters like the H-13 Sioux revolutionized ___________, allowing wounded soldiers to be transported to hospitals quickly.
Medevac
What was a major reason family members were encouraged to spy on one another?
To earn financial rewards and prove their total loyalty to the Party.
The dividing line between North and South Korea
What is the 38th Parallel?
Name of the Soviet satellite that was the first into outer space
What is Sputnik?
What is a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union where millions were imprisoned?
Gulag
How did the state use propaganda to control the public?
By portraying leaders as god-like and hiding the reality of poverty.
$12.5 Billion to provide aid to rebuild Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Korean War was the first conflict fought by this international agency
What is the United Nations?
The communist leader of China
Who is Mao Zedong?
What is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view?
Propaganda
After WWII Cold War tensions rose over control of this geographic area
What is Eastern Europe?
What was the significance of the 38th Parallel in the context of the Korean War?
It was the line of latitude that divided North and South Korea
The way the Korean War ended
What is a stalemate?
Why did Truman fire Gen. MacAurthur?
He went behind the back to Truman and wanted to use Nukes on China.
What is a political or economic system where the government has total control and individual freedoms are strictly limited?
Authoritarian
This person wrote the famous "Iron Curtain" speech that described the emerging divide in Europe
Who is Winston Churchill?
What does Containment mean?
(US Policy after WWII)
Stop the spread of Communism
Origin of the conflict between President Truman and General MacArthur
What is expanding the war into China and using nuclear weapons?
Which individual is credited with introducing the modern ideas of communism in the 1800s?
Karl Marx
What is a common difference between the theory of communism and how it has worked in practice?
The theory calls for equality, but the practice often involves authoritarian control