Life in America
Containment
Korean War
Nuclear Holocaust!
Miscelaneous
100
This new form of entertainment became popular in the 1950s and remains so today.
What is television?
100
The policy created by Pres. Harry Truman aimed at containing, or stopping the spread of, Communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
The Communist part of Korea.
What is North Korea?
100
The first nation to build a nuclear weapon.
What is the United States?
100
The leader of Communist China from 1949 - 1973.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
This musical style was a blending of the blues and country music.
What is rock 'n' roll?
200
The plan to give billions of dollars of aid to nations struggling after World War II, in order to prevent Communism from taking hold.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
The part of Korea supported by the United States.
What is South Korea?
200
The closest the US and Soviet Union have ever come to nuclear warfare.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
This senator went on a "witch hunt" for Communists in the US government and entertainment industries.
Who is Senator Joe McCarthy?
300
The organization of North American and Western European nations whose goal was mutual protection from the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
300
A situation in which two armies have reached a point where neither can win a victory.
What is a stalemate?
300
The leader of Cuba since the 1960s.
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
The term for a nation that is politically and economically dominated by another, stronger nation.
What is a satellite state?
400
Economic production was focused on these.
What are consumer goods?
400
The barrier built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from escaping into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
The fighting of the Korean War stopped in this year.
What is 1953?
400
The Soviet sattelite that sent a chill through the souls of Americans.
What is Sputnik?
400
Winston Churchill's famous term for the Soviet Union's stranglehold over Eastern Europe.
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
500
The following people did not susually hare in America's economic prosperity during the Cold War.
What are minorities? (African-American, Latino, etc.)
500
The mass air transportation of goods and supplies to help the people of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
The Korean War has this nickname.
What is "the Forgotten War"?
500
The term that means a contest between two nations to build more, larger nuclear weapons.
What is the arms race?
500
Korea and Vietnam were examples of this type of indirect warfare between the US and the Soviet Union.
What is a proxy war?
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