the divide between Eastern (Communist) Europe and Western (capitalist) Europe
100
"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities...I believe that we much assist free people to work out their own destinies"...what document does this describe?
Truman Doctrine
100
Eisenhower's belief that you had to be willing to use nuclear weapons in order for them to be efficient, was known as?
massive retaliatio
100
What event caught the United States red-handed in trying to overthrow a foreign government?
Bay of Pigs invasion
100
What was the name of the first artifical satelitte to orbit the earth?
Sputnik
200
What was the United State's major policy toward Communism?
Containment
200
"When Berlin falls, western Germany will be next...If America does not understand this now, does not know that the issue is cast, then it never will and communism will run rampant"...what event does this describe?
Berlin Airlift
200
Kennedy's approach to the Cold War was to provide for the conventional buildup of troops and weapons, this is known as...
flexible response
200
When France, the US and Britain refused to give up West Berlin what did Stalin initiate?
the Berlin Blockade
200
What was the impact of the Soviet's being the first to launch an artifical satelitte?
more investment in space technology/research and to improve the education systems in the US
300
What is capitalism?
free enterprise, free market system, economy based off of supply and demand
300
"The remedy lies in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and Europe as a whole"...what governmental policy does this describe?
Marshall Plan
300
The political strategy that draws countries to the verge of war without getting into conflict is known as...
brinkmanship
300
Korea is divided at the..
38th parallel
300
NASA, the National Defense Education Act, and the Interstate Highway System are all outcomes of...
the domestic policies to contain communism
400
Which act allowed the United States to send in troops to any country under the threat of communism?
The Truman Doctrine
400
Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern Europe...the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow"..what does this quote refer to
Iron Curtain
400
JFK made the statement "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" as a show of support to West Berlin after what incident?
building of the Berlin Wall
400
When the United States formed a mutual defense alliance with other democratic nations, the Soviet Union and other communist nations formed the..
Warsaw Pact
400
Which country was the US unable to stop the spread of communism in?
China
500
What was established in order to be a defense alliance for democratic countries?
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
500
"Ideological termites have burrowed into American idustries, organizations and societies. Wherever they may be, I say let us dig them out and get ride of them...We are willing to establish such a fund to ship to Russia the people who don't like our American system of goverment and prefer the communistic system to ours"...what governmental policy does this describe?
McCarthyism
500
How did JFK deal with Khrushchev's demand that the United States remove missiles from Turkey..
just igorned it!
500
What was the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
the US promised to never invade Cuba and the US removed their missiles from Turkey (eventually)