American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
North latitude that formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.
What is the 38th parallel?
100
This couple was charged and convicted with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who were the Rosenbergs?
100
A military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II.
What is NORTH AMERICAN TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO)?
200
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
What is Truman Doctrine?
200
A vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions.
What is McCarthyism?
200
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian best as “the father of containment” and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.
Who is George Kennan?
200
A mutual defense treaty between 8 Communist States of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
This event was one of the first major crises in the Cold War that began with the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
This term describes the sustained military and political tension that existed between the U.S. and Soviet Union from 1946-1990.
What is the Cold War?
300
After World War II, this man served as Chief of Staff and was the architect of the European Recovery Program.
Who is George Marshall?
300
The meeting between the Big Three took place in Crimea; Stalin reaffirmed the Soviet pledge to enter the war against Japan.
What is the Yalta Conference?
400
This conflict began in the summer of 1950 and ended in March of 1953 with the establishment of a demilitarized zone along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
400
The first artificial satellite to be launched into Space.
What is Sputnik I?
400
Soviet leader at at the beginning of the Cold War
Who is Joseph Stalin?
400
This meeting between the Big Three took place in Germany; Truman learned that the atomic bomb test had been successful and told Stalin about the test.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
500
Created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations.
What is House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
500
The military, political and ideological barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
500
Communication detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan's analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment.
Who is the Long Telegram?
500
Military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.