Conflict
This was the first military conflict during the Cold War
What is the Korean War?
This political and economic ideology is characterized by government ownership of property and 1 party 1 leader rule
What is communism?
i am the US senator that led the movement to find communists in America
Who was Joseph McCarthy
More money was being spent on technology and military defense because of these two battles?
What were the Space Race and the Arms race?
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
The US and Soviet Union emerged from WWII as ________________________ , the strongest nations in the world.
superpowers
The Cold war was a battle of __________, not a war fought on the battlefield.
What is ideology? or ideas
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during most of the Cold War (after Joseph Stalin)?
Who was Nikita Kruschev
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
A military alliance formed by United States and 11 Western European countries to support each other in case of Soviet attack .
What is NATO?
He became president after Truman and was president during the Korean War
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This policy was created by an American President to contain the spread of communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
He was responsible for accusing people of communism during the Red Scare
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
This country was the first to go to space
What was the Soviet Union?
In this form of government, individuals are free to own their own busiensses and own land
free enterprise or capitalism
The foundations of the Korean war stem from an invasion of North Korea at this imaginary line.
What is the 38th parallel?
What was the main cause of the cold war?
differences in government and economic beliefs
He was the leader of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was John Kennedy
This was the weapon that prompted the United States and the Soviet Union to enter the arms race. More powerful that atomic bomb
What was the hydrogen bomb?
why was the Berlin Wall built
To keep east Germans from entering West Germany
The Cold War was mainly a struggle between what two countries?
US and Soviet Union
according to Winston Churchill, what was dividing Europe between the communist East and the democratic West?
What was the iron curtain
He was United States president that said he would not seek reelection because he wanted the war in Vietnam to end
Lyndon Johnson
What country was first to land on the moon
The Soviet Union blocked people and goods from traveling between Berlin and West Germany, but the western Allies would not abandon the city. They flew in supplies for almost a year . This was called_____
What was the Berlin Airlift