Containment Policy
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
First man on the moon:
Neil Armstrong
What is the 2nd Red Scare?
What is brinkmanship?
Being on the edge of all out nuclear war
Winston Churchill referred to the divide in Europe between the East and the West as?
Iron Curtain
The military alliance that the Soviet Union belonged to was called?
Warsaw Pact
What was the name of the first satellite launched into space?
Sputnik
HUAC stands for:
House Unamerican Activities Commission
Why did the US authorize a blockade of Cuba?
The Soviets were placing missiles in Cuba
Who was the leader of China prior to it becoming communist?
Chang Kai-shek
The Truman Doctrine, the Eisenhower Doctrine, and the Marshall Plan were all designed to do what?
stop the spread of communism
The first human in space was:
Yuri Gagarin
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Senator that was responsible for spreading fear and paranoia; accused many people of being communist.
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during whose presidency?
John F. Kennedy
Korea is divided between the North and South at the?
38th parallel
What is the Domino Theory?
If one country falls to communism, they all fall to communism.
Which two species of animals were first launched into space?
dogs and monkeys
What is the Hollywood Blacklist
List of individuals in Hollywood accused of having ties to communism
The Soviets agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba if the US did what?
Removed its missiles from Turkey
The Berlin Wall surrounded:
West Berlin
The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to:
Provide European nations with the money they needed to rebuild after WWII
The United States wanted to win the space race because:
It feared the USSR would use its space technology to develop nuclear weapons.
Ideas about fears of communism was referred to as:
McCarthyism
The Limited Test Ban Treaty did what?
prohibited tests of nuclear weapons
Identify 3 leaders during the Cold War that supported communism.
Mao Zedong- China
Fidel Castro- Cuba
Nikita Khrushchev- USSR