American program of economic assistance for rebuilding non-communist Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This group of people did most of the factory work in America during WWII.
Who are women?
100
The moment in the Cold War when the two major players came closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
A term used for non-aligned nations.
What is third world?
100
This event was most responsible for Japanese surrender in WWII.
What is the dropping of the atomic bomb?
200
A term describing the division of Europe by the Soviet Union spreading its areas in Eastern and central Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
200
The leader of the USSR after Stalin, he began to give up some of the coercive powers of the communist state.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
200
A military conflict in which the French attempted to reestablish their colonial rule .... and the country fought back with communist guerrilla warfare... and the U.S. got involved to back the French.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
This territory was taken over by Germany when Hitler declared that they had a shared culture and language.
What is Austria?
300
A nation that is economically, politically, or militarily dependent on the USSR.
What is a satellite nation?
300
He was a U.S. senator who attacked political opponents by labeling them unpatriotic (or even Communists or traitors).
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
300
The U.S. failed attempt to overthrow Castro in Cuba.
What is Bay of Pigs?
300
The first atomic bomb was dropped here.
What is Hiroshima?
400
Foreign Policy to stop the spread of communism
What is containment?
400
Leader of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War
Who is Joseph Stalin?
400
In 1991, this country formally dissolved into 15 independent states and the Cold War was officially over.
What is the USSR?
400
This battle marked the turning point for the Eastern/Russian front in WWII.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
This was established in response to the creation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Krushchev?
500
In 1997, Russia was given status in this organization first formed as a Cold War alliance to fight communism.
What is NATO?
500
This former U.S. enemy became an American ally in the Cold War.
What is Japan?
500
Most historians agree that WWII started when Germany invaded this country.