Origins
The government controls economic activity
What is Communism
Accusing someone of being subversive with no evidence
What is McCarthyism
The imaginary line that separated communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe
What is the Iron Curtain
JFK's humanitarian mission to spread democracy to war torn nations
Peace Corps
A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.
What is the Space Race
Private citizens and companies control economic activity
What is Captialism
Agency that investigated communism in the film industry
What is the HUAC
How did America respond to the Berlin Blockade
What is airlifting supplies and food into Berlin
When an American spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace
What is the U-2 incident
Part of the Red Scare that targeted the LGBTQ+ community
What is the Lavender Scare
U.S. Policy of providing money to war torn countries to promote democracy
What is the Marshall Plan
What crime was the subject of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial
Passing atomic secrets to the USSR
What was the main reason for military alliances like the Warsaw Pact and NATO?
What is Collective Security
This organization replaced the League of Nations after WWII
What is the United Nations
What was the main purpose of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Peace Corps
What is Containment
Stalin's primary goal during the Potsdam conference
What is creating a buffer zone of communist nations
Because of the Arms Race, Americans...
What is practice Duck and Cover Drills, stockpile food, built bomb shelters etc...
What was the outcome of the Korean War
What is North and South Korea remained divided into two countries
What was the main outcome of the Chinese Civil War?
What is China became a communist country
When the USSR built a wall to prevent East Berliners from moving to West Berlin
What is the Berlin Crisis
Why the USSR able to dominate Eastern Europe after WWII?
What is the USSR already had military forces in Eastern Europe
The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when
What is the USSR will remove missiles from Cuba if the US will remove missiles from Turkey
What organization was used to overthrow democratically elected leaders in order to contain communism
What is the CIA
The main reason for failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion was
What is not enough troops
The United States and the Soviet Union were reluctant to become involved in direct military conflict mainly because of
What is Mutually Assured Destruction