Cold War Begins
The Korean War & Cold War Expand
Cold War At Home
Kennedy & Cold War
Dr. Green's Choice
100
Independent nations under the control of a more powerful nation. (ex. Soviet Union)
What is satellite state?
100
War fought to achieve only specific goals.
What is a limited war?
100
Group of movie writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties.
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
100
Dividing wall built by East Germany in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from Communist controlled East Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
Program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin airlift?
200
President Truman's promise to aid nations struggling against commuist movements.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
Government agency that coordinates U.S. efforts in space.
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration? (NASA)
200
Negative catchword for extreme reckless charges of disloyalty.
What is McCarthyism?
200
Defense policy allowing for the appropriate action in any size or type of conflict.
What is flexible response?
200
Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe.
What is iron curtain?
300
Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization? (NATO)
300
Policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism.
What is Eisenhower Doctrine?
300
Congressional Committee that investigated possible supervise activities within the United States.
What is House Un-American Activities Committee? (HUAC)
300
1962 conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban missile crisis?
300
eased the return of World War II veterans by providing education and employment aid.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
400
Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon.
What is the space race?
400
Law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthow of the United States government.
What is the Smith Act?
400
American government organization that sends volunteers to provided technical, educational, and medical services in developing countries?
What is the Peace Corps?
400
U.S. intelligence-gathering organization.
What is Central Intelligence Agency? (CIA)
500
Policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders.
What is containment?
500
Defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist agression in Asia?
What is South East Asia Treaty Organization? (SEATO)
500
Fear that communist were working to destroy the American way of life.
What is Red Scare?
500
1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA led force of Cuban exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
500
Worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
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