People of the Cold War
Politics
Conflict
Miscellaneous
100
Former State Department official accused of spying for the Soviets.
Alger Hiss
100
Law passed stating that in a national emergency, Communists could be detained or arrested.
McCarran Act
100
The Korean War began when what happened?
North Korea invaded South Korea.
100
Truman fired MacArthur because....
He publicly criticized the president.
200
Leader of the US forces during the Korean War.
General Douglas MacArthur
200
Secret mission between the US and Britain to decode Soviet messages
Project Venona
200
Before and after the Korean war, the peninsula was divided at what parallel?
38th.
200
This agreement between allied countries and Stalin said that counties had the right to pick their own government by democratic means.
Declaration of Liberated Europe.
300
Led the Communist revolution in China.
Mao Zedong
300
This group was formed to investigate Communist influences in the US government and society.
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
300
When the US and the other allies joined their zones in West Germany to create one country, the Soviets responded by
Blockading Berlin
300
To prevent Communist revolutions in other countries, Eisenhower decided to use covert, or hidden, operations conducted by the
CIA
400
US senator famous for his investigations of people he believed were associated with Communism.
Joe McCarthy
400
This gave money to European nations to help rebuild their economies. The hope was that this economic aid would deter the appeal of Communism.
Marshall Plan
400
Eisenhower often used this tactic, which was a wiliness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down.
Brinkmanship
400
When the US joined this, it was the first time that they agreed to maintain lasting peace in Europe.
NATO
500
Following Stalin's death, this man took over the Soviet Union and demanded the Allies leave Berlin.
Nikita Khrushchev
500
This stated that the US was willing to use military force to contain Communism in the Middle East.
Eisenhower Doctrine
500
The Red Scare began in 1945 when a clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada defected and had what?
Documents proving the Soviets were trying to get into the US government.
500
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and
France
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