The Major Players
The United Nations was created in 1945 to try and prevent this.
What are future global wars?
Who is Truman?
This US Senator recklessly accused American government officials and citizen for being communists.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Public protests against the Vietnam war were commonly held here.
What are college campuses?
The heavy military expenditures throughout the Cold War benefited this state’s economy proportionately more than any other state.
What is Virginia?
This country was divided into four zones following World War II
What is Germany?
Under the Marshall Plan, this region was financially supported by the United States in order to rebuild after WW2.
What is Western Europe?
What are missiles?
South Vietnamese troops were set to replace American troops to this plan by president Nixon.
What is Vietnamization?
Between Glasnost and Perestroika, the Soviet Union was moving towards this kind of economy.
East Germany was under the control of this nation during the Cold War.
Who is the Soviet Union?
Cuban refugees were trained by the US military and fought in this failed invasion of Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Regular drills were conducted by this group of Americans to prepare in the case of a nuclear war.
Who are schoolchildren?
Veterans of this war faced indifference and outright hostility due to the war’s unpopularity
What is the Vietnam War?
The fear that communism would spread from one nation to the next was known as this theory.
What is "Domino" Theory?
What is NATO (led by America)?
Gorbachev’s policy of Glasnost encouraged this in the Soviet Union?
What is freedom of expression?
This was the idea that if one nation attacked first, the other would respond with a greater force ultimately leading to no one using nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
What is massive retaliation?
This president began the expansion of the United States military in preparation for the Vietnam War.
Who is Kennedy?
Socialism, Totalitarian government, and a "communist" elite are characteristics of this multinational Cold War organization?
What is the Warsaw Pact (led by the Soviet Union)?
During the Cold War, the United states acted a defender of these principles around the world.
What are freedom and capitalism? (Make sure you are able to describe if this should be still be the case today)
The Watergate Scandal ultimately led to resignation of this US President.
Who was Nixon?