People
vocabulary
Wars
Acts and Alliances
Misc.
100
He is best known for fueling the 2nd Red Scare
Who is Senator Joe MacCarthy
100
This is the term for the competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the cold war.
100
The Korean war started when ______ Korea invaded ________ Korea.
What is North Korea invaded South Korea
100
Under this Doctrine, the United States pledged to help nations threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
100
When the Soviet Union blocked Berlin in 1948, what was ordered by President Truman to bring them aide?
What is the Berlin Airlift
200
He was the American General who led forces in Korea.
Who is Douglass MacArthur
200
Nations dominated by the Soviet Union
What are satellite nations
200
What finalized the U.S.'s presence in Vietnam?
What is the Paris Peace Accords
200
This was an alliance centered around Europe and the United States
What is NATO
200
What was the main purpose of the House on Un-American Activities?
To investigate communists in the government.
300
He developed the plan to rebuild Europe
George C. Marshall
300
This is the term for the conflict in Korea. It was not a war.
What is a police action
300
What was the dividing line between North and South Korea?
What is the 38th parallel.
300
This Act protected the Middle East against communism invasion
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine.
300
The chance that countries may fall to communism if their neighbors fall
What is the domino theory
400
Which leader wanted to reunify Korea under communist control?
Who is Kim Il Sung
400
This is an imaginary line that Churchill had said descended upon Europe.
What is the iron curtain
400
South Vietnamese who were loyal to Ho Chi Minh
Who were the Vietcong
400
This was passed by the United Nations and states that each person has rights that can not be taken away from them.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
400
This was the married couple who were wrongfully convicted of being spies and giving secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
500
Leader of the USSR after Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
500
A treaty signed between the USSR and its Satellites.
What is the Warsaw Pact
500
Vietnam war was known as this since many wealthy men could dodge the draft
What is the "Poor Man's War"
500
What technology did the US develop to retaliate against the USSR exploding a nuclear bomb?
What is the hydrogen bomb
500
The Soviets first satellite sent into orbit?
What is Sputnik
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