Cold War Basics
What was the policy of sending economic aid to assist Europe after WWII?
Marshall Plan
What President oversaw the containment policy?
President Truman
What is the policy of Brinkmanship?
The threat of massive retaliation if provoked
What policy led to economic reforms in the USSR?
Glasnost
What event is Senator Joe McCarthy most known for?
The Red Scare
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What was the significant physical barrier that was erected between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war?
Berlin Wall
What President oversaw the policy of "Massive Retaliation"?
President Eisenhower
What was the result of Nixon's visit to China?
Easing of Cold War tensions
What organization came out of the launch of the Sputnik Satellite?
NASA
What event was a result of a Soviet Union blockade in Europe?
Berlin Airlift
Which action caused the United States to engage in a “police action” on the Korean Peninsula in 1950?
North Korea invading South Korea
What was the Bay of Pigs?
Failed invasion of Cuba
What is the difference between capitalism and communism, in regard to private property?
Capitalism allows ownership of businesses and private property, communism is government-owned.
This couple was prosecuted and executed for selling nuclear secrets to the USSR?
The Rosenbergs
What was the name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations?
Warsaw Pact
During the Cold War there was concern that if a country fell to communism, then surrounding countries would be vulnerable and fall to communism as well. What was this called?
Domino Theory
What President adopted Brinkmanship into their "Flexible Response" policy?
President John F. Kennedy
This concept generally prevented the use of nuclear weapons by the countries who possessed them during the Cold War due to possible all out war.
Mutually Assured Destruction
What prompted the HUAC (House of Un-American Acts Committee) to target the Hollywood Ten?
Fear of communist infiltration in the entertainment industry
What is the multinational organisation created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe?
NATO
What was the result of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
U.S. involvement in Vietnam
In a speech, Kennedy urges Chairman Khrushchev to "halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations. . . . He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction. . . ."
What was the result of this speech?
The removal of missiles from Cuba, by the USSR
"I want to end the war to save the lives of those brave young men in Vietnam. But I want to end it in a way which will increase the chance that their younger brothers and their sons will not have to fight in some future Vietnam someplace in the world" -Richard Nixon
Which approach was adopted to achieve this?
Vietinamization
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