Who Am I?
The author of a famous anti-war children's book which was a clear allegory for the Cold War arms race.
Dr. Seuss
A U.S. foreign policy strategy adopted during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism beyond its existing borders.
Containment policy
Established by Joseph Stalin to create a ring of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future.
Buffer zone
A U.S. program that provided economic aid to Western Europe after World War II to help rebuild the economies, restore political stability, and contain the spread of communism.
The Marshall Plan
The idea that if one country became Communist, neighboring countries would fall to communism in a chain reaction.
The Domino Theory
Cold War President whose tenure was defined by shifting U.S. policy from isolationism to active confrontation with the Soviet Union.
Harry Truman
Greece and Turkey
A political and ideological barrier separating the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe from the West during the Cold War
The Iron Curtain
U.S. foreign policy commitment to provide political, military, and economic assistance to democratic nations threatened by communist expansion.
The Truman Doctrine
A Cold War military doctrine where both the U.S. and Soviet Union had enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other, deterring either side from launching a first strike for fear of complete annihilation
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Leaders of "The Big Three."
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, FDR
Following World War II, the United Nations divides the Korean peninsula along this parallel.
The 38th Parallel
Name of the famous children's book which is largely an allegory about conflict, division, and the futility of the arms race during the Cold War.
The Butter Battle Book
Screenwriters, directors, and producers who were cited for contempt of Congress in 1947 for refusing to answer questions about their political affiliations before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
The Hollywood Ten
Established during the Cold War, this served as a mutual defense alliance against the Soviet Union to provide collective security for Western Europe.
NATO
Delivers the Iron Curtain Speech, warning of the growing division between the Soviet Union and Western democracies, symbolizing the ideological and political barrier that had descended across Europe.
Winston Churchill
The area of the U.S. that encompassed the region from Florida to California and included industries like oil, military, and aerospace, and also had many retirement communities.
The SunBelt
Appointed by the United Nations at the end of WWII, this country was responsible for overseeing the governance of South Korea.
The United States
Created by President Truman's Executive Order 9835 in 1947, this government body was established to investigate the loyalty of federal employees to the United States and remove those deemed disloyal or a security risk
The Loyalty Review Board
The name commonly associated with the Korean War for being overshadowed by World War II and Vietnam.
"The Forgotten War."
An American couple executed in 1953 for their role in a Soviet atomic spy ring, accused of passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Name for the first, post-World War II suburban community built using mass-production techniques to provide affordable, standardized housing for returning veterans and their families
Levittown
The act of spying or using spies to secretly gather information, typically for a foreign government or a competing company, to gain a strategic or competitive advantage
A highly influential, top-secret report produced by the U.S. National Security Council in 1950 that advocated for a significant increase in U.S. defense spending and a comprehensive, global strategy to contain Soviet communism
NSC-68
A response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin from 1948 to 1949, characterized by effort from the Allies to supply the city of basic humanitarian supplies.
The Berlin Airlift