Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940-45, again from 1951-55. Led Britain through period of lonely resistance to Hitler's expansion before U.S. and U.S.S.R. entered war in 1941
Who is Winston Churchill
100
Final meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, an attempted to negotiate plans for post-WWII order.
What is the Yalta Conference(1945)
100
NATO stands for...
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
100
An idea where the U.S. and West should focus on containing communism to those countries in which it already existed and not letting it spread any further.
What is Containment
100
The first war the United Nations was involved in was...
What is the Korean War
200
Soviet dictator from 1922 until death in 1953. In negotiations over postwar order, demanded Soviet domination of Eastern Europe in order to guarantee Soviets would not be invaded again by Germany
Who is Josef Stalin
200
Where allies agreed to establish separate zones of military administration of Germany.
What is Potsdam Conference(1945)
200
Top-secret government research program run by J. Robert Oppenheimer during WWII which developed the world's first atomic bombs
What is Manhattan Project
200
Name 2 of the many containment policies during the Cold War
What is Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Eisenhower Doctrine
200
A US Senator who claimed to have a list of people within the State Department who were communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy
300
Believed strongly in the Domino Theory.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower
300
Event where communist North Koreans invaded anticommunist South Korea, nearly captured entire country
What is the Korean War
300
Military alliance of U.S. and Western European formed to unite defense against U.S.S.R.
What is NATO
300
The Truman Doctrine involves the countries...
What is Turkey & Greece
300
Describe Brinkmanship...
What is US policy making military power of the US and its allies so strong that no enemy would dare attack for fear of retaliation.
400
Created the "Fair Deal" & also led U.S. through most of the unsuccessful Korean War.
Who is Harry S. Truman
400
Began the Space Age
What is the Sputnik(1957)
400
Formed in 1955 as a response to NATO, and its purpose was to unite the communist countries in Eastern Europe.
What is Warsaw Pact
400
This is when the U.S. formally extended policy of containment to cover Middle East
What is Eisenhower Doctrine
400
Truman's plan to ensure federal employees were not communists; included background checks
What is the Loyalty Program
500
Believed wartime alliance could be extended into future but failed to establish workable framework for peaceful cooperation between U.S.S.R. and U.S.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
500
Where americans organized yearlong airlift to provide city with food and supplies
What is Berlin Airlift
500
Organized in 1947 to oversee all foreign intelligence and counterintelligence operations for United States. During Eisenhower administration, staged anticommunist coups in Iran and Guatemala
What is Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
500
American foreign policy theory that suggested that the fall of one nation to Communism would encourage spread of Communism to neighboring countries
What is Domino Effect
500
A reference to the dividing line between the democracies of Western Europe and Stalin's communist ruled East.