Important People of the Cold War
Policies, Programs, Plans
True or False
Terms
Variety
100
Proclaimed that an iron curtain separated Communist Eastern Europe from capitalist Western Europe.
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
Means of transporting supplies around a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
At the end of World War II, Korea was divided into a Southern pro-Communist government and a Northern pro-American government.
What is False? A Southern pro-American government and a Northern pro-Communist government.
100
U.S policy of resistance to Soviet attempts at expanding communism.
What is containment?
100
Reacted to the USSR's deployment of an atomic bomb by giving approval for the U.S. development of an even more powerful bomb.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
American general who led the United Nations forces during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
American financial aid program created to help Western Europe recover.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
Because of its reliance on aircraft to carry nuclear weapons, the United States lagged behind the Soviet Union in missile development.
What is True?
200
Countries subject to Soviet domination.
What are satellite nations?
200
Created by the Soviet Union in response to the formation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
Secretary of State who drafted a plan to help European nations rebuild after World War II.
Who is George C. Marshall?
300
A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
Both President Truman's Federal Employee Loyalty Program and Senator Joseph McCarthy's hearings aimed to fight discrimination in government jobs.
What is False? Expose Communists in the United States.
300
Philosophical "wall" of Soviet domination and oppression.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Their execution in 1953 intensified the fear of communism as an internal threat to the United States.
Who ar Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
400
Led the Communist forces that took control of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
Organization based on the principle of collective security.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization))?
400
Members of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) charged numerous Hollywood figures with being sympathetic to Communist ideas.
What is True?
400
Competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world.
What is the Cold War?
400
This event added most to Americans' shock and fear of attack by the Soviet Union.
What is the first test of a Soviet Atomic bomb?
500
Impacted American society by encouraging a widespread fear of communism.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
500
Committee that probed the government for Communist infiltration.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
500
At the end of the Korean War, North Korea surrendered after the threat of atomic warfare.
What is False? Korea remained divided at almost exactly the same place as before the war.
500
The policy of making the military power of the United States and its allies so strong that no enemy would dare to attack it for fear of retaliation.
What is deterrence?
500
Country the Americans thought initiated the invasion by North Korea.
What is the Soviet Union?
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