Cold War Background
This is not allowed in a communist nation . . . pray tell the
What is religion?
Winston Churchill gave this speech where he warned about police states taking over Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain speech?
This nation, led by Mao Zedong, became communist in 1949
What is China?
Another name for the Red Scare, which harkened back to what happened in Salem Massachusetts in 1692.
What are Witch Hunts?
This was the main reason why the Republicans took over Congress in 1946 . . . and we thought our prices were high!
What is inflation.
What is totalitarian?
This president came up with the containment policy.
Who was Truman?
Instead of recognizing communists China, America acted as if this tiny island in the pacific was really China.
What is Taiwan or Formosa?
This committee investigated ordinary Americans, but their main focus was college professors and people in the movie industry.
What was HUAC or the House UnAmerican Activities Committee?
This ended segregation in the military.
What is Executive Order 9981
Another word for America's free market economy
What is capitalism?
This belief held that if one nation became communist, those around it would also become communist.
America and Western European nations flying supplies into part of a German city that has been blockaded by the USSR.
After spending 44 months in jail this man spent the rest of his life trying to prove that he wasn't a communist.
Who was Alger Hiss?
This man became famous for his communist hearings and then infamous when everyone realized he was full of it!
Who was senator Joseph McCarthy
When WW II ended this continent was divided in two.
What is Europe?
America's first peacetime military alliance was created to protect western Europe.
What is NATO (North American Treaty Organization)?
We gave $15 billion to Western Europe to help it rebuild after WW II . . . and to keep communism from coming there.
What was the Marshall Plan?
No one will hire you because you have been associated with communism.
What is blacklisted?
Many Americans moved to this region of America thanks to cheap land prices and air conditioning. AHHHHHH.
And don't say south . . . be more specific!
What is Berlin, Germany?
This presidential advisor came up with the containment strategy.
Who was George Kennan?
The CIA and the National Security Council were created by this 1947 act.
The first and last names of these two atomic researchers who were executed for possibly giving atomic bomb secrets tot he USSR?
Who were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?
North Korea is divided at this line, also known as the DMZ or demilitarized zone.
What is the 38th parallel?