PEOPLE I
PEOPLE II
TERMS I
COLD WAR EVENTS
COLD WAR TERMS
100
PRESIDENT AFTER FDR, PRESIDENT DURING KOREAN WAR
TRUMAN
100
BECAME THE COMMUNIST LEADER OF CHINA
MAO
100
POLICY OF GIVING SUPPORT TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESISTING SUBJUGATION BY OUTSIDE PRESSURES
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
100
MEETING OF THE "BIG THREE", IT WAS APPARENT THE SOVIET UNION DID NOT KEEP THEIR WORD AFTER THE YALTA CONFERENCE, MAY BE START OF COLD WAR
POTSDAM
100
POLICY TO KEEP COMMUNISM FROM SPREADING
CONTAINMENT
200
AMERICAN GENERAL IN KOREA, FIRED BY TRUMAN
MACARTHUR
200
ONE OF THE FIRST MEN ACCUSED OF BEING A SPY FOR THE SOVIETS
HISS
200
PROGRAM TO PROVIDE AID TO ALL EUROPEAN NATIONS THAT NEED IT
MARSHALL PLAN
200
EFFORT BY US AND GREAT BRITAIN TO FLY SUPPLIES TO BERLIN IN RESPONSE TO THE BLOCKADE
BERLIN AIRLIFT
200
ORGANIZATION FORMED TO OPPOSE COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
NATO
300
COUPLE CONVICTED AND EXECUTED AS SPIES FOR GIVING SECRETS TO THE SOVIETS
ROSENBERGS
300
SENATOR WHO LED HEARINGS AGAINST THOSE ACCUSED OF BEING COMMUNIST
McCARTHY
300
AREA BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA ESTABLISHED AT THE END OF THE KOREAN WAR, NO SOLDIERS ALLOWED
DEMILITARIZED ZONE
300
CONFLICT BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA
KOREAN WAR
300
TERM USED BY CHURCHILL TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO EASTERN EUROPE
IRON CURTAIN
400
ENDED KOREAN WAR, RESPONSIBLE FOR U2 FLIGHTS
EISENHOWER
400
SOVIET LEADER WHO ADOPTED A POLICY OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
KRUSCHEV
400
GROUP SENT TO PRISON FOR NOT COOPERATING WITH WITH THE HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
HOLLYWOOD TEN
400
WAR STARTED WHEN EGYPT SEIZED THE SUEZ CANAL
SUEZ WAR
400
ORGANIZATION ORGANIZED BY THE SOVIETS TO OPPOSE NATO
WARSAW PACT
500
This California Congressman became famous for pursuing the spy, Algier Hiss, later Vice President.
Nixon
500
PROPOSED THE POLICY OF CONTAINMENT
KEENAN
500
A flight by this type of spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, made the cold war colder.
U2
500
CONFLICT STARTED WHEN HUNGARY TRIED TO GET FREEDOM FROM THE SOVIET UNION
HUNGARIAN UPRISING
500
PUSHING EVENTS AS FAR AS YOU CAN WITHOUT STARTING A WAR
BRINKMANSHIP
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