Countries
What is Russia?
This president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963.
Who is JFK/John F. Kennedy?
What is Communism?
Containment was the policy of the United States to stop the spread of this.
What is Communism?
This is what children were taught to do in a nuclear attack.
What is duck and cover?
The countries that are still divided between the 38th parallel to this day.
What are North and South Korea?
This president is credited with escalating the Vietnam War and passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson/LBJ?
This Senator stoked fear of Communists and Russian spies in the United States in the 1950's.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This doctrine was named after the only president to come from Missouri.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The animal Russia sent to space.
What is a dog?
The SE Asian country that the United States went to war with to keep it from falling to Communism. It fell anyway.
What is Vietnam?
This president is believed to have committed treason before he became the president by talking to a foreign power and blowing up a scheduled peace talk so he could win the election.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This group was subpoenaed to testify before Congress, but refused, serving jail time and paying fines. Ultimately, they were unable to find work in their industry.
Who are the Hollywood 10?
John F. Kennedy promised and did create this group to help countries that were struggling. It was considered "containment policy in action."
What is the Peace Corps?
This city was divided in half, with the Western half cut off, deep in Russia's occupied territory of Germany. The US flew in food and supplies daily for almost a year to keep it from falling to Communism.
What is Berlin?
The country where the "Bay of Pigs" invasion happened, which was also involved with the United States and a "Missile Crisis."
What is Cuba?
This president said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This couple was executed for being Russian spies.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
This is the acronym for the talks between the US and Russia to limit weapons and reduce Cold War tensions.
What is SALT?
This alliance set the "teams" for the Cold War.
What is NATO?
The country that said it would fall to Communism if the United States helped Vietnam gain its independence.
What is France?
President Kennedy chose this option to deescalate the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is diplomacy?
President Truman vetoed this bill that required Communist groups to register with the government, but Congress was able to override his veto.
What is the McCarran Act?
This "Plan" gave billions of aid to countries in Western Europe to help them rebuild without falling to Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The country the United States had placed missiles capable of reaching Russia.
What is Turkey?