The Bomb
This Japanese city was the second city the US dropped a nuclear bomb on.
Nagasaki
In 1948, the USSR blocked all roads and railways to West Berlin.
The Berlin Blockade
This committee was a group in Congress that sought to investigate communists.
HUAC
He took over leadership of the USSR after Vladamir Lenin died.
Joseph Stalin
Americans feared the spread of this during the Cold War.
Communism
He was a member of the American Communist Party and was sentenced to death in 1953.
Julius Rosenberg
This person was the lead scientist on the Manhattan Project.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
This 1945 conference between Allied leaders was the first sign of tensions between the US and USSR.
The Potsdam Conference
This US senator led a campaign accusing people of being communists without strong evidence.
Joseph McCarthy
This was the system of government under Joseph Stalin.
Totalitarianism
The period in America when committees were formed and trials took place due to Americans' fear of domestic communism.
The Red Scare
The forced famine in the Ukraine that led to the deaths of 4 million Ukrainians.
The Holodomor
The location in New Mexico where the US tested the first atomic bomb on July, 16, 1945.
Trinity Test Site
A very deadly battle in 1945 between the US and Japan that demonstrated how costly a land invasion of Japan would be.
The Battle of Okinawa
This was when many Americans were put on a secret list that led to many people losing their jobs and livelihoods.
Black Listed
The system of concentration camps across the USSR.
Gulag
After this nuclear test, Robert Oppenheimer publicly spoke out and declared that the American people needed to be informed about the dangers of the Arms Race.
The Mike Test
No Soviet spies were discovered during these hearings.
The McCarthy Hearings
The name of first test of the hydrogen bomb carried out by the US in 1952 in the Pacific Ocean.
The Mike Test
This US law created the CIA, Department of Defense, and National Security Council.
The National Security Act of 1947
This scientist worked on the Manhattan Project and was later convicted of giving atomic plans to the Soviets.
Klaus Fuchs
The Soviet policy of taking over farms and forcing people to work on large shared farms that led to famine and starvation.
Collectivization
This was the publicly declared reason for dropping the nuclear bombs on Japan.
That a land war in Japan would lead to extensive American deaths.
This term for hatred of Jewish peoples was common throughout the globe at the beginning of the 20th Century and contributed to the prosecution of the Rosenbergs.
Antisemitism
This 1954 nuclear test did not go as planned and was much more powerful than expected.
The Castle Bravo Test
This message, written by George Kennan, warned that the USSR would try and spread communism across the globe.
The Long Telegram
Joseph McCarthy was his mentor, and he later went on to be Donald Trump's mentor
Roy Cohn
This was created in response to NATO.
The Warsaw Pact
Historians largely see this as one of the real reasons we dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan.
Because the US didn't want to share Japan with the Soviets like they did with Germany.
This is the main difference between the Holocaust and the Holodomor.
The Holocaust was a deliberate plan to exterminate people based on their identity, while the Holodomor was focused on the control and punishment of a people who were seen as politically threatening.