Conflicts
Containment
Arms Race
McCarthyism
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
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.
Censored
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
Which nation was NOT involved in the Korean War? China North Korea Japan The United States
Japan
200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200
Which group of countries were Warsaw Pact members? a) Mexico, Canada and the United States b) West Germany, France and England c) Ethiopia, Angola and the Sudan d) East Germany, Hungary and Poland
East Germany, Hungary and Poland
200
McCarthyism was effective mainly because it ______________.
Played on America's fears
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
Which U.S. president pledged that the United States would help other countries, such as Greece and Turkey, fight against communist takeover?
Truman
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The United States and the Soviet Union became involved in a competition to develop weapons of mass destruction. What was that called?
Arms race
300
In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy won national attention when he
Claimed hundreds of Soviet spies worked in the government
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
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and th US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400
What is the alternative name for Brinksmanship between USSR and USA
MAD Mutually Assured Destruction
400
The Cold War was a war of ideas between
Communism and Democracy
400
What was the purpose of the House Un-American Activities Committee?
to hunt down communists in the United States
500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
500
Which is the best description of the Marshall Plan of 1947? a) a plan to send military supplies to anti-communist forces in China b) a plan of economic aid to western European countries c) a plan to defeat the Soviet Union in the arms race d) a plan to remove the communist from U.S. government posts
b) a plan of economic aid to western European countries
500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
Another name for McCarthyism is
Red Scare
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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