The first real standoff in the Cold War was what event?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100
Led the Korean War for the UN until President Truman fired him for wanting to drop Atomic Bombs on China
MacArthur
100
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.
United Nations
200
The Shah of Iran was deposed in what year by hardline Islamic extremists?
1979
200
North Korean was divided following WWII at what location?
38th Parallel
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 searched for what type of people in the US government?
Communists
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
The first satellite state to officially break away from the Soviet Union was
Poland
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy starting in 1947 in Greece and Turkey during Civil Wars
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
Led the Viet Cong to victory over America and South Vietnam
Ho Chi Mihn
300
Science agency formed as a response to the Soviets launching a man into space and the threat of the Soviets being the first country to land on the moon.
NASA
400
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945 and 1991
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 doctrine that allowed the Soviet Union to intervene where communism is threatened
Brehznev Doctrine
400
What was the purpose of the House Un-American Activities Committee?
to hunt down communists in the United States
500
Name the major Soviet leaders (not Andropov) between 1945 and 1991 in chronological order
Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin
500
Name of the group in Afghanistan that the US secretly supported in their war with the Soviet Union?
Mujahideen
500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
Ran the Camp David Accords and brokered a record peace deal in the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter
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.