Cold War Basics
This term describes the post-WWII tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without direct military conflict.
What is the Cold War?
U.S. policy giving aid to Greece and Turkey to resist communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. president who ordered the atomic bomb and started containment.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Fear of communism infiltrating American life.
What is the Red Scare?
First satellite launched by the USSR.
What is Sputnik?
This imaginary barrier separated Soviet-controlled countries from the West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
U.S. program giving economic support to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Congressional group that investigated communists.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
U.S. space agency founded in 1958.
What is NASA?
This economic system was promoted by the USSR.
What is communism?
U.S. diplomat’s warning about Soviet expansionism sent from Moscow.
What is the Keenan Telegram?
U.S. senator who led anti-communist witch hunts.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
American couple executed for espionage.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
First American to orbit the Earth.
Who is John Glenn?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
1949 U.S.-led military alliance to counter the Soviet threat.
What is NATO?
He authored the Keenan Telegram and shaped U.S. containment policy.
Who is George F. Kennan?
Group of screenwriters and actors who refused to testify before HUAC.
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
1969 U.S. mission that landed on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
This term refers to the U.S. and Soviet Union influencing other nations through alliances and proxy wars.
What is superpower rivalry?
U.S. Cold War strategy of giving military and financial aid to anti-communist governments globally.
What is the policy of interventionism or “dollar diplomacy” ?
This president expanded U.S. involvement in Vietnam and created the Great Society.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This internal security law required communist organizations to register with the government.
What is the McCarran Act?
Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?