Conflicts
Containment
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
Institutions
100
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100

The thought or idea of one nation becoming communist would lead to the fall of its neighbors to communism was known as

What is the domino theory?

100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
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)?
200

During the war in Korea, what did President Truman & Douglas MacArthur disagree strongly about?

What is nuclear weapons?


200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200

What was the name of the alliance established by European Communist nations in response to NATO?

What is the Warsaw Pact?

200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300

What are the border nations between the USSR & the West serving as a buffer zone called?

What are Satellite Nations?

300

Churchill, Stalin & FDR agree to divide Germany into four zones of occupation at what event?

What is the Yalta Conference?

300
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400

October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.



What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.

400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400

Who was the Communist leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

Who is Ho Chi Minh?

400

Who was the leader that installed reforms in the USSR?

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

400
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
What is NASA?
500

What was the Berlin Airlift in response to?

the Soviet blockade of West Berlin

500

This scheme was successful in rebuilding Western Europe after WWII

What is the Marshall Plan?

500

Who was the first leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?


500

What was purpose of Perestroika?

To revive the Soviet economy

500
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?
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