Ideology
The two sets of ideologies that competed with each other in the Cold War were
What are communism and capitalism?
Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
The witch hunt undertaken in the United States to eliminate "communist" government members.
What was McCarthyism?
After the Allies merged their occupation to create West Berlin, the Soviet Union responded by doing this.
What is a blockade of West Berlin?
This was the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union regarding achievements in the field of new technology, especially the building of space craft and rocket ships.
What is the Space Race?
The country that was trying to contain communism.
What is the U.S.?
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Joseph McCarthy was a senator of this state.
What is Wisconsin?
This war ended in a stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
The Soviet Union's launch of this satellite caused the United States to increase funding in technology, weapons, math, and science.
What is Sputnik?
The communist country that the U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?
Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This committee of the U.S. House of Representatives investigated suspected members of the communist party.
Who is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
The back and forth creation of weapons between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
What is the Arms Race?
This conference lead to Germany and berlin being divided into (4) allied controlled areas and the creation of the Declaration of Liberated Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This type of economy has no class system and nationalizes industries.
What is communism?
This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.
What is NATO?
A group of actors who decided not to cooperate because they believed the communist hearings were unconstitutional.
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
This action caused the United States to engage in military action in Korea.
A direct response of the United States to growing communist threats in Europe in the years following WWII and the plan to help countries avoid falling to communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
Containment
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created their own international military organization to counter-act what the US and other western nations were doing during the Cold War. (not an acronym)
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This married couple was executed for passing secrets about the atomic weapon to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
What is Vietnam?
This is the term for the short-term thawing of Cold War tensions.
What is detente?
This is the idea that if one nation falls under communist control, then neighboring countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The government agency created and later utilized by Eisenhower to engage in espionage
What is the CIA?
Truman referred to the Korean War so that he wouldn't have to ask Congress for a formal declaration of war?
What is a "police action?"
This conference lead to the creation of the United Nations, the first international peace keeping organization that the United States joined.
What is Dumbarton Oaks?