Person, Place or Event
Government that owns everything; allows no freedom and lies constantly
Communism
Fidel Castro became the communist leader of this island nation.
Cuba
The U-2 incident was about a (Soviet) spy plane that was shot down.
False, it was about a U.S. spy plane
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a Supreme Court decision that made segregation illegal in schools.
True
__________ was the U.S. president that got America out of the Vietnam War.
Richard Nixon
Commander in Korea; fired for publicly fighting his orders.
Douglas MacArthur
U.S. program to rebuild Europe after WWII
Marshall Plan
During the Cold War, Vietnam, Korea and (France) were all divided with one part being communist and the other not for a time.
False, France should be Germany
The Soviet Union put the first man-made satellite and person in orbit.
True
The nations of east Europe, taken during WWII by the Soviet Union were forced to ____________.
become and stay communist during the Cold War.
Wall built to keep East Germans from escaping to the west through Berlin.
Berlin Wall
Dividing line between the communist and free nations of Europe during the Cold War.
Iron Curtain
The U.S. policy toward communism during the Cold War was called (confrontation)
False confrontation should be CONTAINMENT
(The Warsaw Pact) was the treaty organization joined by the U.S. to protect Europe from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
False, it was NATO
Senator Joseph McCarthy became famous by _________.
making accusations about communists in the government.
Resolution by Congress that gave President Johnson the power to do whatever was needed to stop Vietnamese communists.
Gulf of Tonkin
Mao Zedong was the leader of this Chinese group.
Communists
The Berlin Airlift kept the city supplies when the (Germans) blockaded the city in 1948
False, Germans should be changed to SOVIETS
The people of the United States were very afraid of communism in the 1950's.
True
The most widespread protests in the 1960's and '70s were about ___________.
The Vietnam War
Chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of this Chinese Group
Nationalists of Taiwan
The American space agency.
NASA
(Lyndon Johnson) and Martin Luther King were both assassinated in the 1960's
False, JFK was assassinated along with Martin Luther
In wars all over the world during the Cold War, the U.S. would help one side while (East Germany) helped the other.
False, the SOVIET UNION helped the other side
West Germany was NOT ___________ during the Cold War.
communist