Major leader of the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War, he is credited with building the Berlin Wall, then removed from office while on vacation.
Nikita Khruschev
100
NATO, formed in 1949 to provide mutual help if any member nation was attacked.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
100
What two recovery and containment plans go together like PB&J and need each other to work properly?
Marshall Plan & Truman Doctrine
100
What was the first man made satellite (U.S.S.R.)sent into orbit in 1957?
Sputnik 1
100
In what year did the Soviet Union successfully detonate their first hydrogen bomb?
1949
200
Revolutionary who overthrew the Cuban gov't and established a communist gov't in Cuba and an alliance with the Soviet Union.
Fidel Castro
200
Khrushchev and the Soviet Union's response to NATO
The Warsaw Pact
200
Designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war torn Europe
Marshall Plan
200
What style of nuclear bomb was being developed in the 1950's?
Hydrogen
200
What does ICBM stand for and what is the function of those things?
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile. Can send nuclear missiles anywhere around the world
300
U.S. president in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
John F. Kennedy
300
Which organization/alliance was formed to attempt to protect Asia?
SEATO...South East Asia Treaty Organization
300
Eastern European nations who were politically dependent on the Soviet Union
Satellite States
300
What was the most visible symbol of the quickly expanding trend called consumerism?
The automobile
300
Which U.S. President was faced with the difficult decision whether or not to use atomic weapons to end WWII, thus opening a new era of warfare for the world?
Harry S. Truman
400
DAILY DOUBLE!! In 1968 he became First Secretary of the Communist party in Czechoslovakia and introduced many reforms in a program known as The Prague Spring
Alexander Dubcek
400
Formed by Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain, and the United States to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding to the South
CENTO...Central Treaty Organization
400
Plan to keep Communism within its existing boundaries and to prevent further Soviet aggression.
Containment
400
After WWII, how did many people (mainly Americans) begin buying consumer goods such as refrigerators, vacuums, televisions, washing machines, etc...?
with credit
400
What is the security policy that holds if two sides involved in a political conflict have huge nuclear arsenals, war can be prevented?
deterrence
500
A war hero in France, he helped establish a new gov't known as the Fourth Republic, which attempted to return France to a world power.
Charles de Gaulle
500
What U.S. "theory" was the driving force behind the formation of alliances in order to prevent the spread of communism?
Domino Theory
500
Plan for the United States to provide money to any country threatened by Communist expansion.
Truman Doctrine
500
What is a society where the focus is on buying new consumer goods, not producing them?
consumer society
500
DAILY DOUBLE!! Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis...
The Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba (pointed toward the U.S.) ready to launch if the U.S. invaded Cuba