This gave money to European countries to rebuild after WWII (bribed them not to be communist)
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This was a failed attempt by JFK to overthrow Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
100
Other than containment, why did the US involve itself in a conflict with Vietnam?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
100
Truman forced any federal employees to do this to ensure that they were not nor ever have been Communists
What are loyalty oaths/pledges?
100
This was the last war in which we officially declared war.
What is WWII?
200
Truman initiated the Berlin Airlift in 1948 because...
What was the response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, cutting it off from supplies in West Germany?
200
This was what Kennedy did to try to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
What is a blockade of Cuba?
200
This was a major result of the Korean War
What is that North and South Korea were divided at the 38th parallel?
200
This man and his wife were executed by the US government for allegedly giving US secrets to the Soviet Union
Who are the Rosenbergs?
200
This was the reason that Congress passed the War Powers Act in 1973
What is to limit the power of the president/regain the check of declaring war that was lost by Congress/prevent another "Vietnam"
300
This led to MacArthur's dismissal during the Korean War
What is his attempt to invade China/insubordination to President Truman?
300
The term meaning that if one country fell to Communism in Southeast Asia, all countries will fall to Communism
What is the domino theory?
300
This policy was the main reason that we never had a direct war with the USSR
What is massive retaliation/mutually assured destruction?
300
This was one effect from the McCarthy Era
Many US citizens were blacklisted, had their civil liberties taken away, or falsely accused of being communists?
300
This was term for the policy that eased relations between the US and the USSR during Nixon's presidency
What is detente?
400
This was the purpose of NATO
What is the organization that was created to protect countries from communism by creating a defensive alliance?
400
This group could have impeached President Nixon if he had not resigned in 1974 (not conduct the impeachment TRIAL against Nixon)
What is the House of Representatives?
400
Nixon demonstrated better relations with Communist governments and an end to the containment policy by visiting what country for the first time in US history?
What is Communist China?
400
This was the purpose of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
What is to find suspected communists and curb communist activity in America?
400
This was the purpose of SALT
What is to limit the creation of more nuclear weapons and missiles (help limit nuclear war) between the US and the USSR?
500
This was caused by the launching of Sputnik in 1957
What is the Space Race?
500
This is why the 26th amendment was passed
What is the Vietnam War (18 year olds could fight/be drafted but not vote)?
500
This is the policy of pushing a country to the very edge of war before a peace/truce is made to avoid war
What is brinkmanship?
500
McCarthy's downfall occurred when he began investigating this group (part of the government)
What is the US military?
500
This is a major similarity between the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War (1991)
What is that these wars had no formal declaration of war made by Congress?