Harry Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy and LBJ
Reagan
Cold War
100
The Truman Doctrine - The USA must _________ communism.
contain or keep it from spreading
100
This senator told America that he knew of 2000 federal employees who were communists and single handedly ruined the lives of over 1000 Americans
Who was Joe McCarthy (McCarthyism)?
100
Kennedy failed attempt to overthrow that communist Fidel Castro in Cuba.
What was the Bay of Pigs (invasion)?
100
President Reagan's budget invested trillions of dollars in defense and the military, in order to fight the USSR if the time came. He even wanted to deploy this satellite laser system into space to shoot down incoming nuclear missiles.
What was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star Wars)
100
The belief that if one nation became communist, those around it would also become communist.
What was the Domino Theory?
200
America's first ever peacetime military alliance to protect Western Europe from communist invasion.
What was NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
200
Duck and Cover drills and Fallout Shelters were built in American back yards thanks to this Eisenhower military strategy.
What was massive retaliation?
200
To keep Eastern Europeans from becoming free, the construction of this begins in 1961 and it becomes the symbol of the Cold War.
What was the Berlin Wall?
200
Reagan went to Berlin and said that this man needed to " . . . tear down this wall!"
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
With this president's foreign policy of Detente, he made nice with the communist and traveled to China and the USSR.
Who was Richard Nixon?
300
American gave $15 billion to help western Europe rebuild - to keep communism from spreading there.
What was the Marshall Plan?
300
This war ended at it's starting point, the 38th parallel
What was the Korean War?
300
The world is on the brink of nuclear war as Kennedy and Khrushchev
have a stare down over Cuba?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis . . . the USSR blinks first and the missiles are removed from Cuba.
300
Reagan called the Soviet Union this.
What was the "Evil Empire?"
300
Which event in American history is this political cartoon featuring John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev best relate to?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
America's Congress starts holding hearings to see if Americans are communists or communists sympathizers.
What was the Red Scare or Witch Hunts?
400
Fidel Castro became the communist leader of this nation, 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
What was Cuba?
400
Lyndon B Johnson, who did more for the Civil Rights of minorities than any other president, has his legacy ruin by trying to stop communism from spreading during this war.
What was Vietnam?
400
Soviet Premier Gorbachev's economic restructure program that injected some capitalism into the USSR's economy.
What was Perestroika?
400
Who's Cold War presidency was ended by the Watergate scandal?
Who was Richard Nixon?
500
This war starts here when the 38th parallel is crossed - to stop communism from spreading.
What was the Korean War?
500
This couple was executed for possibly giving the USSR, America's atomic bomb secrets.
Who were the Rosenburgs?
500
Anti Vietnam 
war protest break out in these areas throughout America
What were college campuses?
500
President Reagan gets credit for ending the Cold War, but the Cold war ended while this man was President.
Who was George HW Bush?
500
What two wars did America fight in during the Cold War in order to prevent the spread of communism?
What were Korea and Vietnam?