People
He warned America about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."
The name for the border between North Korea and South Korea (MORE than just the abbreviation)
Demilitarized Zone
In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to do this.
Leave the Earth's atmosphere and orbit the planet
The name for the USA's policy in opposing the expansion of Communism.
The Truman Doctrine
The terrible famine which affected American Great Plains states during the Great Depression.
The Dust Bowl
This president led the USA during most of the Roaring Twenties.
Calvin Coolidge
The USSR broke off ties to this European Communist nation early on in the Cold War.
Yugoslavia
Turkey
The name of the imagined dividing line between Western and Eastern Europe after World War II.
The Iron Curtain
The name of the Northern Communist faction in the Vietnam War.
Viet Cong
This US President rose to fame as a war hero who rescued his crew at sea.
John F. Kennedy
The city where Rosa Parks refused to get off the bus AND where the Selma March ended.
Montgomery, AL
The standoff at Checkpoint Charlie occurred at this location.
The Berlin Wall
The name of the pro-Capitalist, Western military alliance (need MORE than just the abbreviation)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The assassin of John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Fidel Castro
This nation was the first to receive aid from the USA in order to prevent Communists from taking over the government.
Greece
The House Unamerican Activities Committee was directed by this individual.
Joseph McCarthy
The USA sent financial aid to Western Europe under this legislation.
The Marshall Plan
Ralph Abernathy
The chief attorney for the plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education and later the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
The actual Aryan race most likely comes from this region.
Iran & Afghanistan
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in this city.
Sarajevo, Bosnia
The theory that posits one nation's possession of nuclear weapons deter enemy nations from using nuclear weapons of their own.
Mutually Assured Destruction.
The scandal that ruined the legacy of Warren G. Harding.
Teapot Dome Scandal