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Early Cold War Conflicts
JFK
Cold War Foreign Policy
Potpourri
100
He was a powerful Senator from Wisconsin who claimed he knew of communists in the US government
Who is Joseph McCarthy
100
This plan, named for a Secretary of State, gave financial aid to Europe so they could recover from WWII
What is the Marshall Plan
100
Soviet missiles secretly placed on this Caribbean island almost sparked WW3
What is Cuba
100
Unlike the earlier League of Nations, the US did lend its support to this post-WWII international peace-keeping body
What is the United Nations
100
This Vice-President from Texas was sworn in as Commander-in-Chief upon JFK's assassination in Dallas
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)
200
This is the color associated with communism
What is red
200
An attempted Soviet takeover of the two countries in the Mediterranean region prompted President Truman to send economic and military aid
What are Greece and Turkey
200
To force the Soviet withdrawal of nuclear missiles off the Florida coast, President Kennedy ordered US forces to do this
What is blockade the island of Cuba
200
This was the acronym of the military alliance set up to defend western Europe from communist aggression
What is NATO
200
Fera of communists is known as this kind of scare
What is Red Scare
300
The Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik started this Cold War competition whose name rhymes
What is the Space Race
300
When the Soviets tried to blockade this German capital city, the US responded with a massive airlift
What is Berlin
300
This was JFK's arch nemisis during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Krushchev
300
US foreign policy changed after WWII when we went from a foreign policy of isolation to this
What is a foreign policy of involvement in world affairs
300
Senator McCarthy was finally put in his place when a majority of Americans complained that he was violating these
What are people's constitutional rights
400
President Truman required all government employees to sign these "promises" in the 1950s
What are loyalty oaths
400
The policy of containment is named after this first Cold War President and is called this doctrine
What is the Truman Doctrine
400
This was JFK's arch rival during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Krushchev
400
This word that begins with the letter "C" characterized US foreign policy for over 40 years
What is contaiment
400
The buid-up of massive nuclear arsenals by both the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War was called this
What is the Arms Race
500
This husband and wife couple were convicted and executed for selling the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union
Who are the Rosenbergs
500
The Cold War began when this Soviet dictator failed to live up to his promise to relinquish occupied countries in Eastern Europe
Who is Josef Stalin
500
JFK's support for this ill-planned attempt to re-take Cuba from the communists was an early embarrasment for the President
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion
500
Both the Korean War in the fifties and the Vietnam War in the sixties and seventies were efforts to stop this in Asia
What is the spread of communism
500
He was the communist dictator who rose to power in Cuba following a successful revolution in the 1950s
Who is Fidel Castro
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