An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945, to promote world peace, security, and economic development.
What is the United Nations?
100
The term originates from the period in the U.S known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression against communists, as well as a fear campaign spreading paranoia of their influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents.
What is McCarthyism?
100
He gained power after Stalin's death in 1953. He believed that communism would take over the world and favored a policy of peaceful coexistence in which two powers would compete economically and scientifically.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
100
China's communist ally.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
A thermonuclear weapon that had the force of 1 million tons of TNT (67 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima); employs hydrogen fusion.
What is an H-bomb?
200
The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence- especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
What is containment?
200
A term coined during the Cold War to describe the tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one's opposition to retreat.
What is brinkmanship?
200
When asked if they were Communists, these two people denied the charges against them and pleaded the Fifth Amendment. They were then were found guilty of espionage and executed, despite numerous pleas to spare their lives.
Who are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
200
To rebuild European markets to ensure stability, reunite Germany, and for all nations to have the right of self-determination.
What did the United States want?
200
An intense period between the Soviet Union and the United States that led to large spending on armaments and the stockpiling of vast nuclear arsenals; one of the main causes that began the Cold War.
What is the nuclear arms race?
300
A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the US, and Canada.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300
When the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control in 1948, President Truman ordered this to bring them aide.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
He was the American General who led forces in the Korean War, who recommended attacking communist China.
Who is General Douglass MacArthur?
300
To encourage communism in other countries, keep Germany divided and weak, and control of Eastern Europe.
What was the goal of the Soviet Union?
300
The first Hollywood blacklist that was instituted on November 25, 1947, the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to the House Committee on un-American activities.
What is the Hollywood blacklist?
400
A U.S policy, announced by a U.S president in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations (specifically Greece & Turkey) threatened by internal or external opponents.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its seven Eastern European satellites.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
Communist leader in northern China; relied on financial aid from Soviet Union, attracted peasants by promising land reform; benefited from experience guerrilla army.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
The United States and the Soviet Union, who emerged from WWII with greatly different political and economic systems.
What are the "superpowers"?
400
The American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
An imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Easter Europe from countries in Western Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
500
This incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a U.S. spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union.
What is the U-2 incident?
500
Nationalist leader in China; ruled in southern and eastern China; relied heavily on U.S. aid; weak leadership skills and poor morale; fled to Taiwan.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
500
American investigating committee during the Red Scare.
What is the HUAC?
500
The result of the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, ending the Empire of Japan's 35-year colonial rule of Korea. The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to temporarily occupy the country as a trusteeship with the zone of control along this line