The USSR did this when the U.S., French, and British attempted to combine their occupation zones.
The Berlin Blockade.
100
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The Berlin Airlift.
100
The last major Eastern European country to fall to Communism.
Czechoslovakia.
100
The line that divides North and South Korea.
38th parallel.
200
Imre Nagy led anti-Communist protests in this country.
Hungary.
200
What is “collective security”?
The idea that an attack on one is an attack on all.
200
Berlin was divided into this number of occupation zones.
4.
200
After World War II, control of South Korea was given to what country?
The United States.
200
Who did the United States view as the legitimate government of China?
Taiwan.
300
The civil war in China was fought between which two groups? Who was each group led by?
Nationalists - Chiang Kai-shek.
Communists - Mao Zedong.
300
List three countries that were part of the Warsaw Pact (not counting the USSR).
East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, or Albania.
300
List three countries that were part of NATO (not counting the United States).
Portugal, Canada, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, West Germany, the Netherlands.
300
NATO stands for this.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
300
The willingness to go to the edge of war is called what?
Brinkmanship.
400
This premier of Iran was overthrown by United States covert action because he nationalized a British oil company.
Mohammed Mossadegh.
400
What did the Voice of America do?
Broadcast pro-American radio signals into Soviet territory.
400
How did the United States respond to anti-Communist protests in Hungary?
They refused to send aid or assistance.
400
The USIA stands for this.
The United States Information Agency.
400
What strategy involved developing such deadly weapons that the opponent would not dare attack?
Deterrence.
500
What U.S. company in Guatemala opposed the reforms laid out by the Guatemalan government?
The United Fruit Company.
500
American U-2 pilot who was shot down while flying over Soviet airspace.
Gary Powers.
500
The following quote is by who?
"The grinding poverty and the lack of economy opportunity for many millions of people in Africa, the Near and Far East, and certain regions of Central and South America, constitute one of the greatest challenges of the world today... If people are frustrated and disappointed, they may turn to false doctrines which hold that the way of progress lies through tyranny."
Harry Truman.
500
During the Korean War, American and UN forces nearly pushed the North Koreans back to what river?
Yalu River.
500
Who said the following quote?
"This fight is the fight for freedom . . . against the Russian intervention and it is possible that I shall only be able to stay at my post for one or two hours. The whole world will see how the Russian armed forces, contrary to all treaties and conventions, are crushing the resistance of the Hungarian people . . . Today it is Hungary and tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, it will be the turn of other countries because the imperialism of Moscow does not know borders."