I. From Allies to Rivals
The Atlantic Charter issued by F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill drew directly from this document formed by W. Wilson and presented at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference.
What are the "Fourteen Points"?
It was this town in McCarthy's home state that staged an elaborate political drama of a Communist Party takeover drawing national attention.
What is Mosinee, Wisconsin?
This event in 1956 damaged British-American and French-American relations and unequivocally asserted the United States as the dominant Western power.
What was the Suez Crisis?
Soviet and Eastern Europeans developed this black-market system in order to survive during the shortages of stock and shortcomings of the government.
What was blat ("favors")?
During a tragedy in 1970, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were fatally shot by this group while protesting the military draft.
What is the National Guard?
Complete the quote: "Both were envisaged by their founders to be grand experiments, on the success of which the ______ of humankind depended." -Odd Arne Westad
What is the "future"?
In his day, based on the testimony of Whittaker Chambers, he was conficted of espionage. Today, historians remain divided as to whether or not he was actually a Soviet spy.
Who was Alger Hiss?
The United States supported this leader of the Republic of Vietnam, the successor of emperor Bao Dai, in the aftermath of the French Indochina War.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
It was on this religious holiday that Gorbachev formally resigned as Soviet President and transferred all assets to the Russian Republic.
What is Christmas?
Joined by three other Christian clergy, this person broke into a Baltimore Government building and poured blood on the draft files.
Who was Phillip Berrigan?
The publisher Henry Luce crafted this editorial that would later become a point of inspiration for American political leaders throughout the Cold War.
What was Luce's "American Century"?
Implicated by Laus Fuchs, he was the brother-in-law to Julius Rosenberg.
Who was David Greenglass?
Although unrest bubbled under the surface for years, this was the final push that sparked the attempted Hungarian uprising.
What was the Secret Speech?
What was Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin?
In 1984, Reagan ordered the CIA to do this in Nicaragua after Congress banned all military aid to the contras.
What was secretly arranging mines throughout the coastal waters and harbors?
In 1963, a wave of anti-government protests depicting this scene convinced Congress to end U.S. involvement with Diem.
What were scenes of orange-robed Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire?
Sent in February 1946, there were this many words in the "Long Telegram," the first message to discuss the logic of containment.
How much is 8,000?
The following quote address this topic: "furnishes grist for the Communist propaganda mills, and it raises doubts even among friendly nations as to the intensity of our devotion to the democratic faith."
(What is "it" referring to?)
What is segregation?
This excuse was given by Eisenhower when U.S. aerial reconnaissance missions were caught during the U-2 Incident.
What was "the plane was conducting meteorological research but had strayed off course"?
Reagan's muscular foreign policy relates to these popular movies of the time. (2)
What were Rambo: First Blood and Rocky IV?
Eisenhower approved this CIA-backed coup, inspiring protests across Iran.
What was Operation AJAX?
Complete the quote: President Eisenhower explained that the amount of nuclear power the U.S. held by 1953 "exceed by many times the total equivalent of the total of ___ bombs and ___ shells that came from _____ plane and _____ gun in _____ theatre of war in ___ the years of the Second World War."
*Two words
What is "all" and "every"?
"exceeds by many times the total equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theatre of war in all the years of the Second World War."
In 1974, this person was permanently deported from the Soviet Union for publishing The Gulag Archipelago, which detailed their experience in Soviet labor camps.
Who was Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
By 1968, this was determined the single most divisive debate in American society.
What was the Vietnam War?
The Reagan Administration increased American military aid to this group of people, a coalition of guerilla fighters that included Osama bin Laden.
Who were the mujahideen rebels?
A series of strikes by this group in protest of the steep rise in food prices forced the Communist Polish government to officially recognize the group.
What was the trade union Solidarity?