Cold War Alliances
North Korea was supported by these countries during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union and China?
The President of the United States created the the Containment policy, Dominio Theory, and Marshall Plan
What is Harry Truman?
What is a "Proxy War"?
A war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
These two countries used propaganda the most...
USA and USSR
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
What is MAD?
The Warsaw Pact was created because
The Soviet Union wanted to establish communism in eastern Europe and counter NATO.
The General of the United Nations during the Korean War
What is General Douglas McArthur?
Who won the Vietnam war?
The communists won the war.
What was the Red Scare?
A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism by a society or state.
The two countries mostly involved in the arms race.
What is the US and the USSR?
The purpose of NATO...
It was established in order to contain communism and stand against the USSR.
The leader that accepted missiles from Soviet Union to protect against future American attack
What is Fidel Castro?
The USSR was on the side of which country in the Yom Kippur war?
Egypt and Syria
Who used the term -"the axis of evil" and against which country?
President George W. Bush, against the USSR
The easing of the relations between the West and the East.
What is Detente?
What is SEATO?
South East Asia Treaty Organization
The leader that ended American involvement in Vietnam
What is Richard Nixon?
These presidents resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis...
John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev.
What is Mccarthyism?
a campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.
The event that effectively ended the arms race.
What is the collapse of the Soviet union?
These countries were in SEATO...
New Zealand, France, Australia, Pakistan, USA, UK, Thailand, and the Philippines.
The leader that approved the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and ordered nuclear missiles sent to Cuba in 1962
What is Nikita Krushchev?
This person led the UN forces on an attack at the Battle of Inchon...
General George MacArthur
What was the purpose of creating Voice of America?
Since its creation in 1942, Voice of America has been committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the news and telling audiences the truth. Through World War II, the Cold War, the fight against global terrorism, and the struggle for freedom around the globe today, VOA exemplifies the principles of a free press.
The project that designed the Atomic Bomb which was led by the US and supported by the UK and Canada.
What is the Manhattan Project?